Dog Daycare – K-9Kingdom

Choose from two types of daycare, we offer both to fit the needs of your family:

Enrichment Daycare

Enrichment daycare stimulates a dog mentally and physically, using all their senses and working toward a well-mannered dog.

Traditional Daycare

Traditional daycare will focus on meeting the physical needs of a dog in a group environment, sending them home socialized and exhausted.

What Happens at Enrichment Dog Daycare

We’ll be posting our schedules here along with pictures, to get a better sense of the differences between the styles of daycare, traditional vs enrichment.

Enrichment daycare is more structured. It will involve manners training, introducing different stimuli such as scents and textures, making dogs think and solve puzzles, giving them a job to do each day, and working on the ability to self-calm when stimulated.

Why Enrichment?

As new research emerges about dog behavior, we adopt changes that are best for the dogs. Like humans, it’s best if we engage both physically and mentally with a dog, to see their best and lead to happier, healthier family pets. They won’t come home too exhausted to move, but they will be mentally tired which reduces stress and boredom.

What do we work on?

Learning	through Play
Sensory Stimulation	with water, various surfaces, scents, sounds, visual textures, and tastes.
To share and play nicely	small group play with toys and structures.
Obedience & manners	1-on-1 agility games.
Attention span & focus	increasing distance, duration, and distraction.
How to bring energy down to either settle or focus	toning work and stretching.
Problem solving	puzzle toys and games.
Behavior modification of resource guarding	early intervention, desensitization, trading, and building confidence.
Recall, Sit, Drop, and Down	positive reinforcement methods.
Mental Stimulation	new experiences.

Who is going to benefit the most from Enrichment? Dogs that are from smart breeds, the ones that are too smart for their own good. Dogs that are trouble makers, might start issues with other dogs or are able to conquer your most elaborate plans to keep them from reaching something. Older dogs that don’t have energy to run/wrestle all day, but we can send them home mentally satisfied with less physical strain. Insecure dogs that stay on the periphery of daycare can engage with a smaller group and gain confidence. Herding breeds that struggle with traditional daycare because of their natural instincts to herd, in Enrichment Daycare they now have a job to do. Puppies, as they start their introduction to the world, we build positive encounters one step at a time.

What Happens at Traditional Dog Daycare

Dog Daycare is a supervised, fenced, leash-free place for your dogs to roam, play, and run all day long inside or outside. Dogs are pack animals and have internal instincts so this type of play is beneficial to their health and well-being.

Indoors, the dogs play with each other. Outside activities include playing in the pools and the hose in the summertime, one of their favorite activities, and, in the winter, snowball games are just as much fun. **Warning: dogs at play do get dirty.** Water and snow play can contribute to this so we do try to send your dog home as dry as possible.

Dogs are separated into appropriate play groups based on temperament and play style, allowing them to play safely but have fun at the same time! They are supervised by our trained staff throughout the day.

We do not have mandatory nap time or breaks, since we are staffed at all times, but we have cots and toddler beds available in the play area for the dogs to take a break at any time. We also have timeout kennels, when the need arises to slow down an extra-active dog.

Fresh drinking water is available at all times.

Why us?

Here at K-9 Kingdom, we offer indoor/outdoor options all day. Our staff is Cat & Dog First Aid Certified.

Required before Daycare

New Dog trial
Required vaccinations: Rabies, Bordetella (known as Kennel Cough), and distemper/Hepatitis/Leptospirosis/Parainfluenza/Parvovirus (DHLPP or DHPP + Lepto)
Required preventatives: Year-round Heartworm, Year-round Flea, Annual fecal sample
Suggested vaccinations: Canine Influenza, Coronavirus, Lyme Disease