Daycamp Tools and Proceedures

Daycamp group play begins with our trained supervisors meet with the daycamp manager and review the “Group List” a specially designed list of each of the dogs in attendance for the day. The group list is split into up to 4 groups depending on the days atendees and their needs. During this meeting our team familiarizes themselves with each dog’s specially documented personality and behavioral notes and creates a plan of success for our guests.

Once the meeting has taken place dogs are then brought outside from their kennels on a slip lead (unless health concerns do not safely permit it). We do not allow our dogs to run loose in our camprooms (the rooms where our pups are kenneled until their activity time) for safety. Each dog is walked from their room (kennel) to the outdoor play yards where they are given time to eliminate in our gravel areas. Once the dogs have eliminated, we will guide them to one of the play yards. If the weather is nice we will bring them out to one of our large fenced in grass turf fields to rub and play! If the weather is not so nice or the fields are muddy we will either bring the dogs into the indoor training arena to play or in our larger gravel yards to play!

The time that your dog spends out in daycamp will depend on their needs and behavior. Some dogs can become easily overstimulated in a fast paced and exciting enviornment and thrive on more frequent shorter playtimes and others do well with more prolongerd playtime. Our team will carefully decide what will be best for your dog to achieve the perfect balance of enrichment, fun, and quality care for your individual pup!

Each of our daycampers will also recieve a personalized reportcard that will detail their day, who their staff and dog friends were, their mood, and what they did along with any special notes we wish to make you aware of!

During daycamp our staff will work with your dog on different enrichment activities including playtime with toys, on exercise sets and playgrounds, agility and medical equipment exposure, bubbles, and training for good manners such as “sit” “off” “come” and more. Our team does work to curb excessive inappropriate behavior such as digging, chewing, mounting (humping) of staff and other dogs, and rushing gates/doors etc. To correct negative behaviors our staff uses verbal corrections such as “No” “Ah-Ah” or “Leave-It” and we also have squirt bottles to help deter a dog from performing a negative behavior. Anytime a dog is corrected or walked away from doing something inappropriate we always reinforce their alternative good behavior with lots of extra love and praise to help encourage them to show more of the good behavior in the future.

In the afternoon all dogs have a special down time where they are returned to their room and are allowed a rest period to avoid stress and overstimulation. Guests may bring a lunch or treats or choose to add on a special treat (we offer cheese kongs, peanut butter kongs, puppaccinos, and banana berry smoothies). Once break time is over the fun begins again! Owners that want to check in on their dogs can also choose to add on a special pupdate! Pups that sign up for these pupdates will received a personalized update via text message on how your dog is doing, who their friends are, and er even include their featured pictures on our facebook page! We even offer personalized photobooths to go home with your pup at the end of the day!