Daycare Done Differently
The Right Daycare Experience for Every Dog
Whether your dog is social, shy, or prefers people only, we tailor their day to their comfort and wellbeing for their best day.
From the initial Meet & Greet onward, we select and guide your dog's daycare pathway based on comfort, confidence and day-to-day experience.
Trainer-Guided daycare
Behaviour Supported Play
Behaviour Supported Play
Our certified trainer designs and oversees how we structure the day, support comfort, guide interactions, observe emotional signals, and guide each dog into the right pathway.
Behaviour Supported Play
Behaviour Supported Play
Behaviour Supported Play
Carefully curated group engagement with hands-on supervision and observation
Built-in Rest
Behaviour Supported Play
Detailed Daily Updates
Supported breaks for decompression and comfort, not incidental downtime
Detailed Daily Updates
Behaviour Supported Play
Detailed Daily Updates
Meaningful behavioural insight so you always know how your dog is doing.
Following a Meet & Greet, we guide your dog into a daycare pathway. A pathway is simply the daycare activity program that matches your dog's comfort level and can be adjusted as their experience and preferences grow.
Social Daycare
Personal Play Daycare
Confidence Daycare
For confident, playful dogs who enjoy structured group interaction.
Confidence Daycare
Personal Play Daycare
Confidence Daycare
For shy, unsure, inexperienced, or easily overwhelmed dogs.
Personal Play Daycare
Personal Play Daycare
Personal Play Daycare
A non-social daycare experience. For dogs who prefer people or don't thrive in a social environment.
Which Daycare Pathway is Right for Your Dog?
Every dog is different. Our three daycare pathways are designed to support different comfort levels, social needs, and energy profiles. You don't need to know which program is best for your pup, we will start with a Meet & Greet and will guide you based on your dog’s temperament, history, and daily behaviour.
Social Daycare
Confidence-Building Daycare
Confidence-Building Daycare
For confident, social dogs who enjoy group play.
- Best for dogs who already enjoy, or are ready for, social environments and practice positive social engagements
- Busier energy and active play
- Rest integrated throughout the day
- We focus on safe, positive managed social engagement
$43/day. See full daycare pricing for detail and package discounts.
Confidence-Building Daycare
Confidence-Building Daycare
Confidence-Building Daycare
For shy, unsure, nervous, or easily overwhelmed dogs.
- Best for dogs who need additional support becoming confident or benefit from a lower-energy calmer group.
- Calmer energy and quieter play
- Rest integrated throughout the day
- We focus on experiences and engagement to build confidence
$49/day. See full daycare pricing for detail and package discounts.
Personal Play Daycare
Confidence-Building Daycare
Personal Play Daycare
For dogs who prefer people, don't thrive in a social group or require custom pacing.
- Ideal for dogs who are dog-selective, don't thrive in a social group, or prefer human company
- Fetch, snuggles, ball pit or other activities
- Rest integrated throughout the day
- We focus on one-on-one people time or with a matched friend, as appropriate.
$65/day. See full daycare pricing for details.
Enhance your dog's daycare experience
These optional programs and enhancements take place during your dog’s regular daycare day. For best experience, our team recommends add-on programs based on your dog's comfort, history and goals. We are always here to help you decide.
Training During Daycare
Training During Daycare
Training During Daycare
Our certified trainers support your dog’s confidence, communication, and emotional wellbeing through training thoughtfully integrated into their day. Training can include social skill development, one-on-one learning, or relaxation work depending on your dog’s needs and goals.
Enhancements
Training During Daycare
Training During Daycare
We offer optional enhancements that add comfort, enrichment, learning, or extra fun to your dog’s day. These may include confidence-building activities, one-on-one connection moments, enrichment games, relaxation support, or special treat additions. Our team can help you choose what would genuinely benefit your dog.
Rest is PArt of Wellbeing. Not Downtime.
Dogs aren’t meant to stay active all day. Calm resets and quiet helps them regulate emotionally, feel safe, and go home balanced, not burnt out.
DOG DAYCARE FAQS
DAYCARE PATHWAY & PLACEMENT
Placement isn't chosen by parents. We begin by assessing your dog's comfort away from you, with us and in our environment. If they indicate they are comfortable, we assess their social comfort and confidence and evaluate their interactions, body language, and response to others.
From the Meet & Greet through each daycare day, our certified trainers and care team observe temperament, comfort, arousal levels, emotional signals, and social preferences. Your dog’s pathway is guided and adjusted as needed to ensure safety, confidence, and wellbeing.
The only exception for selection of your own program would be if you are wanting the Personal Play daycare pathway. In this situation, please connect with us as we will modify our Meet & Greet process to support this.
Yes. We move dogs between pathways regularly. As confidence grows or social preferences evolve, we will move your dog between pathways to best match their needs, comfort and safety. Changes are thoughtful, not disruptive, and always focused on emotional wellbeing.
With our unique Confidence Building and Personal Play daycare pathways, dogs with diverse backgrounds and experiences do well with us.
We take great care with pacing, decompression, and emotional safety. Some dogs may benefit from additional training support to complement their daycare experience.
If a dog has a bite history with other dogs, we will not complete a social assessment. These dogs are assessed for suitability in our Personal Play daycare.
COMMUNICATION & UPDATES
We let you know how your dog did during activity time and rest time, whether they had any challenges and whether we have any recommendations. If there are areas we would like to help your dog in, we will include a note to follow up with us so we can schedule a call with our trainer.
Yes. Our updates are meaningful and behaviour-focused—not just a generic “he had fun.” We share behavioural updates and relevant emotional context with details on how your dog is doing during all parts of their day, including rest, activity time, meals and medications.
So that we can have the best picture of how your dog did throughout the day, we send report cards at 6 pm.
On your dog's first day, we will print the report card just prior to your arrival at check-out so we can review it together.
Daily emotional and behavioural context helps us guide pathway placement, monitor progress in their pathway or anticipated suggestions and support wellbeing. Sharing this information with you helps you understand your dog’s needs at daycare and at home.
BEHAVIOUR TRAINING & SUPPORT
Many dogs benefit from Confidence-Building Daycare, which offers an even smaller number of dogs in a supervised activity group and has other dogs who are also growing in their confidence. This program creates the ideal environment for a dog to grow at their own pace.
We have our unique Play Behaviour Support Training sessions we integrate into your dog's activity time to reinforce desired play behaviours and manners and redirect unwanted ones. What a dog practices becomes reinforced, and if play behaviours not conducive to social group are allowed to be practiced, those behaviours will intensify and disqualify a dog for group play.
To be eligible for a Play Behaviour Support Training program during daycare, a dog must first pass their Meet & Greet for Social Daycare and we must assess their play behaviours as conducive to this type of training.
As with all training, success depends on frequency, consistency and each individual dog. We have had great success with assisting dogs, particularly as they go through transitional ages of being a teenager, in practicing good play behaviours so they remain in a Social play group.
Yes. We offer a flexible Day Train program within a normal daycare day using positive reinforcement training. This is ideal for manners, focus, calming strategies, foundational skills, and confidence-building.
Since we have an attendant hands-on in a very small group of dogs, we are able to monitor closely and provide meaningful insights into your dog's day, whether they're having any challenges and whether we have any recommendations.
SUPERVISION, SAFETY & DAILY EXPERIENCE
Play and engagements are not left to chance. Play is monitored and supervised by trained staff hands-on in the group who observe communication, play behaviours, arousal, emotional signals, and comfort. Our approach is proactive—not reactive—which means we support healthy engagements, slow arousal before conflict, and provide resets when needed.
We practice positive reinforcement and are proactive and engaged in our activity groups. Our handlers are skilled and trained in reading body language and behaviour and watch closely for micro expressions and subtle communications.
We use redirection of undesirable play behaviours, reinforcement of desired play behaviours and rest to help dogs with self-regulation and to avoid hyperarousal.
We do not use fear, intimidation, noise makers or other physical tactics to manage activity.
Our meet & greet process is the first introduction of a dog to us and our environment, and ensuring each step from there is positive is essential to safely introducing a dog how has passed for Social or Confidence Building to a group of dogs.
To be passed for Social or Confidence Building, a dog must demonstrate comfort with us and the environment. If they give us green lights in those two areas, we then introduce to them a dog of similar size or energy who has excellent social skills, communication skills and body language and who will give deference to a dog if they communicate they are uncomfortable.
We gradually introduce additional dogs, always evaluating comfort and confidence.
Dogs receive structured rest periods throughout the day. Rest supports emotional regulation, lowers stress, prevents overstimulation, and ensures dogs go home calm and balanced.
If a dog is struggling with settling, we have training support available to help them develop positive associations and help them learn to self regulate.
Each day is a mix of activity, outdoor time, comfort breaks and predictable rest and engagement with our team.
6-9 am: Check-ins; individual activity time; settle sessions
9-11 am: Morning rotational activity groups, training and rest programs
11 - 12:30 pm: Mid-day rest, lunches, one-on-one activity & training
12:30 - 3:30/4:00 pm: Afternoon rotational activity programs and training
3:30 - 6 pm: Check-outs, enrichment sessions, baths & training
7 pm - 8 pm: Evening activity, training and baths
8:30 pm: latest check-outs
All dogs in our daycare program play naked! Naked play is the safest play for dogs.
Yes. We rotate between indoor activity time and outdoor time depending on weather. We follow a sliding scale of outdoor time based on temperature for both hot and cold weather. When the weather is below -20 or above +30, we have are well-equipped for indoor-only activity.
REST, MEALS, MEDICATION & COMFORT
We intentionally integrate rest, decompression, and time away from activity and arousal. Dogs need comfort time to regulate. High-quality daycare is not “nonstop play”—it balances activity with the essential skill of self-regulation, decompression and recharging.
We assign every dog an individual resting kennel. Our standard size is 16 sq ft by 6 ft high, but we do have various sizes and styles to suit dogs' preferences.
No. Your dog doesn't need to be kennel trained, but yes, resting alone within a private space is essential to their success and their best day as the ability to disengage from play and self-regulate is essential to a dog's overall wellbeing. We know many dogs are not kennel trained at home and so have supports and options in place to help a dog learn this essential skill.
Yes. We can serve lunch, snacks, or medication instructions if needed. Please provide details at check-in.
DAYCARE ADMISSION & REQUIREMENTS
- Puppies under 24 weeks old require two completed sets of Distemper combination vaccine.
- Dogs over 24 weeks old require current Distemper combination vaccine and Rabies vaccine.
- Vaccines must be administered by a vet with official record provided by the vet.
- Titer tests for Distemper combination are accepted for one year from test result showing immunity. Titer tests for Rabies are not accepted.
- Flea, tick and lice treatment is recommended.
- Bordetella vaccination is recommended.
We accept puppies and seniors! Puppies must have their second set of vaccinations complete. Puppies must have been in your home for at least one week and be a minimum of 12 weeks of age. Seniors must have either a record of current vaccinations or a letter from the vet declaring them exempt for health or age-related reasons. Their last copy of vaccinations must be provided.
No. We accept intact dogs over 8 months old. Once a dog is over eight months old and still intact, an intact fee will apply to each day. Just as with spayed or neutered dogs, an intact dog's daycare path depends on their social interest, comfort and play behaviours. If a dog isn't thriving in social group, our personal play program is ideal.
We accept all sizes and breeds. We divide dog activity groups by size in addition to by their Social or Confidence-Building daycare pathway.
ATTENDANCE FREQUENCY & REASSESSMENT
No. Your dog does not need to meet a weekly or monthly minimum.
The first day back will be treated as a Reassessment Day so our team can observe emotional and social comfort and social interest to ensure a smooth transition into our environment.
A new Meet & Greet is required. A lot can change for a dog in that timeframe, and we want updated insight before returning to a social environment.
You must bring your dog at least once for a full day in advance of arriving for boarding. We recommend a minimum of two visits, as dogs will only show some behaviours once they feel comfortable enough to show their discomfort, and what a dog presents on day one may vary significantly on day two.
From out of town? We do have many clients who come from great distances and can accommodate boarding without that visit if you are from afar. In those instances, Settle Session Training is required for the first two days of a dog's visit to help them transition into our environment and give them the greatest sense of comfort and connection.
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Yes. If your dog is injured, they can join us in our Personal Play daycare with any needed modifications to their activity time.
Yes. We assess your dog's comfort and confidence as we regularly would, and then recommend the most-suited daycare path for your dog.
We accept dogs of all sizes. We have separate activity groups for smaller dogs, middle-sized dogs and larger dogs.
We are unable to accept dogs in heat. If your dog begins their heat while with us, they will be required to be picked up. A dog is eligible to rejoin for daycare or boarding 30 days after the beginning of their heat cycle.
Yes—Personal Play Daycare is a calm option for dogs needing quiet pacing, individual attention, modified bathroom breaks or additional rest.
BILLING, CHECK-IN AND CHECK-OUT HOURS
Our day is very scheduled to offer the best structure and predictability for the greatest benefit for the dogs in our care. We limit our lobby hours around our activity times of undivided attention while your dog is with us.
Weekdays:
- 6 am - 8:45 am
- 11:30 am - 12:15 pm
- 3 pm - 6 pm
- 6 pm - 8:45 pm (time must be pre-arranged)
Weekends:
- 7 am - 8:45 am
- 11:30 am - 12:15 pm
- 3 pm - 6 pm
- 6 pm - 6:45 pm (time must be pre-arranged)
- 7:30 pm 8:30 pm (time must be pre-arranged)
There will be a $20 out of hour fee applied to check-ins or outs out of these hours. Out-of-hours must be pre-arranged and confirmed. Requests for out-of-hours check-ins or outs cannot always be accommodated.
Half days are available for Social and Confidence Building daycare. A half-day is up to five hours and check-in and out must fall within our lobby hours. There are no half-days available for Personal Play.
We require photo ID matching full first and last name of a person authorized on your account. If you are account owner, you can login to your account and, under Authorized to Pick Up, set a code word that you can say to the front desk attendant to authorize release of your dog without photo ID.
No. We will not release a dog to someone not authorized on the account. If you have set a code word on your account and they know and tell us this code word, we will release the dog to them. If someone arrives to pick up your dog and they are not listed and there is no code word set, we will call the account owner for authorization. We will only accept a phone call from the number listed as the primary account owner's number and will only accept an email from the email address listed as the primary account owner's.
For Social or Confidence Building daycare, we require 24 hours' notice for cancellations. Due to the impact on staffing and ability to accept dogs into the program, for cancellations made less than 24 hours' in advance, the card on file will be charged for the service or a daycare day deducted from a package.
For Personal Play, cancellations must be made four days in advance of the daycare date or the pre-paid day will be forfeited.
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