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Welcome to Central Bark® Oakdale
The bond we share with our furry best friends is unparalleled. Our love for our dogs drives us to provide them with the best possible life. However, meeting all their needs can be challenging. That’s why families rely on Central Bark Oakdale, where dogs receive love and care.
When you entrust your dog to Central Bark Oakdale, you can rest assured that they’re enjoying a fantastic day with their friends.
Our comprehensive whole dog care approach is dedicated to nurturing and enhancing your dog’s overall health. At the core of this approach is our Enrichment Dog Day Care program.
Additionally, we provide services such as dog boarding, dog grooming, market, training, and more. Our mission is to help you and your dog share the best life possible.
We proudly serve the east metro suburbs of Ramsey and Washington Counties, encompassing Oakdale, Woodbury, Maplewood, North Saint Paul, White Bear Lake, and Lake Elmo.
Central Bark
Oakdale
3115 Hadley Ave N,
Oakdale, MN 55128Get Directions
Closed By appointment only
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All the staff are friendly and owners Angie and Chris are kind, responsive and professional. We love having Central Bark in our neighborhood!
Central Bark Oakdale Whole Dog Care
Our comprehensive approach to whole dog care provides an array of enjoyable and personalized products and services. These will support your dog’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being throughout their entire life.
Enrichment Dog Day Care
Enhance your dog’s daily routine with tailored activities designed just for them, adding excitement to each day.
Grooming
Indulge your furry friend in grooming and delightful experiences crafted to bring them joy and maintain their best appearance.
Boarding
Provide your dog with a serene and comfortable retreat through our Dog Boarding service, ensuring a relaxing and enjoyable stay.
Products
Explore our carefully chosen selection of high-quality dog essentials, including food, treats, toys, and more, aimed at keeping them healthy.
Training & Enrichment
Strengthen your bond with your dog through positive training and engaging activities that teach essential skills and promote good behavior.
How to get started
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Dog Day Care. Reimagined.
Central Bark Enrichment Dog Day Care takes dog day care to a whole new level! It combines our industry-leading expertise with the latest dog behavior science and positive dog training principles. Your dog can enjoy a fun and healthy day tailored to them, with the proper amount of play, mental and physical exercise, socialization, training, rest, and love they need to be healthy, happy, and well-rounded.
Flexible Playgroups
Small and large playgroup options allow us to match better your dog’s personality, needs, and preferences with the social atmosphere and amount of play they can enjoy and benefit from most.
Group Play Skills
Group Play Skills are a fun and rewarding way for dogs to practice important skills like name recall, and behaviors like group sit and calmly going in and out of doors and gates.
Rest Period Enrichment
Rest Period Enrichment sessions help dogs achieve a healthy balance. They can relax and recharge in their own private space with calming enrichment toys and healthy foods tailored to their preferences and diet.
Enrichment Sessions
Personalized One-on-One Enrichment sessions give the extra attention dogs love and the freedom to use their senses and safely explore their instincts through interactive toys, puzzles, and games.
Frequently Asked Questions
Dog day care gives dogs a fun place to play with their friends while their owners are busy at home and work.
At Central Bark®, doggy daycare is our specialty, and nobody does it quite like us. We don’t just give dogs a place to play. We create a personalized program of activities that optimize your dog’s whole health – their physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Central Bark goes beyond a traditional doggy day care with our unique Whole Dog Care philosophy. Our personalized approach helps enrich your dog’s whole health and well-being throughout their entire life so you can enjoy a healthy, happy, and loving life together.
The heart of our whole dog care approach is our Enrichment Doggy Day Care program. We combine Central Bark’s industry-leading doggy day care expertise with the latest dog behavior science. Our mission is to give dogs a balanced blend of exercise, social group play, learning, rest, and TLC. To help your dog be a healthy, happy, calm, and well-rounded member of your family.
Central Bark® Enrichment Doggy Day Care combines our industry-leading doggy day care expertise with the latest science-based activities and techniques. We personalize your dog’s day with fun, healthy, and well-balanced activities that appeal to their instincts and enrich their bodies, minds, and senses.
Each day at Central Bark includes exclusive options like:
- Flexible play groups allow us to match your dog each day with the social atmosphere and play schedule they can enjoy and benefit from most. This helps give them a healthy balance of play, rest, and learning and creates a safer social environment with a better quality of play. And our lower dog-to-staff ratios offer more individual attention, education, and love.
- Group play skills help dogs practice important behaviors and life skills like name recall, group sit, and calmly going in and out of doors and gates. These activities are fun and rewarding for your dog and help improve behavior and impulse control, prevent overstimulation, and creates a safer social environment.
- Rest Period Enrichments help dogs relax and recharge in their own private space with calming interactive toys and healthy food pairings tailored to their preferences and diet. It promotes physical and mental relaxation and can help them become more comfortable in crates by building positive associations.
- One-on-One Enrichment add-on sessions give your dog the personal attention they love, supplemented with interactive toys, puzzles, and games. Sessions are fun and rewarding, exercise their body and mind, and engage their senses. Add complexity with fitness and agility equipment.
- Training sessions during day care visits help your dog develop essential skills and behaviors like name recall, sit, stay, down, wait, leave-it, door and gate control, and loose-leash walking. Excellent for your dog and easy for you! Your dog will come home tired and well-socialized, with the training and skills they need to be a well-behaved member of your family.
Absolutely! We strongly encourage all prospective clients to see our facilities firsthand. We believe a tour is the best way to understand what to look for in a dog day care. You can schedule a visit to tour our complete indoor and outdoor play areas and private rest spaces. We want you to feel completely confident and comfortable with our secure environment. You can also explore our facility and get a feel for what a day at Central Bark looks like by viewing the photos and virtual tours on our website.
Central Bark® is licensed and inspected by the Health Department regularly. We also clean and disinfect nightly, regardless of how many dogs have visited.