Training‑led day care · Plano, TX
All the fun of day care. None of the bad habits.
Agility, games, friends, and a whole lot of running around — with trainers building good habits the entire time. Your dog has the day of their life. You get a dog who's easier to live with. Everybody wins.
Everyone starts with a free evaluation and a free day of day care, so we can meet your dog properly and find them the right crowd.
✦ Never more than 10 dogs per handler
✦ Trainers and apprentices on the floor
✦ Free evaluation and first day
Let's get them on the schedule
Tell us who we're meeting. Takes about a minute.
If group play isn't their thing, say so here — we have one‑on‑one days and slow introductions, and plenty of dogs start there.
A day with actual things in it
There's a real difference between a dog who was supervised for eight hours and a dog who was paid attention to for eight hours.
Every day here has a shape. Real activity, real training, real fun, in doses that keep dogs enjoying themselves rather than tipping over into chaos. Bodies get worked. Brains get worked — which is the half most dogs never get. And good manners get practiced so many times that they quietly stop being something your dog has to think about.
Dogs get good at whatever they practice. So we make very sure they're practicing good things.
There's always something going on
Nobody here is standing around waiting for the day to end.
✦ Agility day
Tunnels, jumps, ramps and a great deal of enthusiasm. Ridiculously fun, and quietly excellent for confidence, coordination and body awareness.
✦ Skill of the week
The whole building works the same thing all week — place one week, recall the next. Repetition is what makes a skill stick, and a week of it does more than a scattered month.
✦ Seasonal activities
Bobbing for apples, cucumber day, paw print days, bubble days and more. Undignified, wildly popular, and very good for a dog who's never had to figure anything out before.
✦ Puzzle and scent games
Finding things they're not sure are there. Fifteen minutes of sniffing settles a dog more thoroughly than an hour of sprinting.
✦ New and slightly odd things
Wobbly surfaces, strange objects, novel noises. Dogs who meet new things regularly stop finding new things alarming — which pays off everywhere else in their life.
What they think is happening
✦ "I am making so many friends."
✦ "I am, without question, the fastest one here."
✦ "There is a snack somewhere in this box and I will find it."
✦ "That trainer is my favorite person who has ever lived."
✦ "Best day. Best day. Best day."
✦ Polite greetings — the same skill that keeps them off your guests.
✦ Recall and impulse control, practiced against the most distracting distractions on earth: other dogs.
✦ Scent and puzzle work. A tired brain beats tired legs every single time.
✦ Sit, down, place, come — short sessions with an actual trainer, throughout the day.
They think they're at a party. They are at a party. They're also getting a little better at being a dog, every hour they're here.
Bring your dog in for a free day.
Start with an evaluation and a full free day of day care. Meet the team, meet the group, and find out how they do — no cost, no commitment.
Ten dogs. One handler. That's our ceiling.
Ask every day care you're considering what their dog‑to‑handler ratio is. It's the single most useful question you can ask, and the answer tells you almost everything else about the place.
Best practice in this industry is one handler for every ten to fifteen dogs, and lower is better. We cap at ten and we don't go past it — while plenty of places run well above fifteen.
That number decides everything else. Past a certain point nobody is guiding anything; they're watching a room and hoping. At ten, someone actually sees the moment your dog makes a good choice — and the moment they make a rude one, which is the only moment redirection works.
Ten to one. That's the whole difference, and it isn't close.
Fights don't come out of nowhere
Our safety record here is excellent, and we're quietly proud of it. We average fewer than one real fight a year. There's the occasional bit of noise — two dogs telling each other off, over in a second, nobody touched — because that's dogs. But the actual thing almost never happens here, and that isn't luck, and it isn't because we only take the easy dogs.
It's the ratio, the matched groups, and handlers who end play while it's still going well rather than after it isn't. There's nearly always a build‑up before trouble starts. Somebody just has to be close enough to see it, and confident enough to step in early.
The best fight is the one somebody saw coming ten seconds early.
So when you're comparing day cares, ask how they prevent incidents — not just what they do after one. Anybody can describe a first aid kit. Far fewer can tell you what happens in the ten seconds beforehand.
Who's out there with them
Not a teenager with a squeaky toy and a phone.
✦ Our own apprentices
Playgroups are run by the training apprentices we develop in‑house — the same people working our board & train dogs down the hall.
✦ Reading dogs in real time
Good choices get noticed in the moment. Rude ones get redirected in the moment — not thirty seconds later, once it's already becoming a habit.
✦ Matched on purpose
Groups are built by size, energy and play style, and adjusted daily. Who your dog plays with matters as much as how long they play.
Not a big group‑play dog? Still welcome.
Some dogs love a crowd. Some dogs would rather be literally anywhere else, and that's a completely respectable position to hold.
Shy or unsure. Gradual introductions, at their pace, with our steadiest dogs — not thrown in and wished luck.
Easily overstimulated. Smaller, calmer, hand‑picked groups, and shorter play blocks.
Not really a fan of other dogs. One‑on‑one days with a handler, enrichment and training. They still get the good day.
We build the day around the dog who showed up, not the dog the schedule was hoping for.
Everyone starts with a free day
An evaluation and a full day of day care, free. It isn't a test your dog can fail — it's how we work out where they fit and who they'll get along with. They spend the day with us, and we'll tell you honestly how it went.
If day care turns out not to be right for your dog, we'll say so — and we'll tell you what would be.
Days and packages
✦ Day rates
Come once, or come whenever you need to. Full days and half days both available.
✦ Monthly packages
Same days every week, a reserved spot, and a better rate. Best fit for most working households.
✦ Add a bath
Book a bath before pickup and they come home tired and clean — arguably the best thing you'll arrange all week.
Give us a call for current rates. We'll also tell you how many days a week we'd actually recommend for your dog, which isn't always the number you'd expect.
[Requirements: rabies, DHPP and bordetella records; spay/neuter over X months; drop‑off and pickup windows.] Confirm against current policy before this goes live.
Questions we get a lot
Will they be completely wiped out?
Pleasantly tired, not destroyed. A dog who's flattened every single day isn't having a great day — they're having too much of one. Settled is what you should see that evening, and settled is what we're aiming for.
My dog got politely asked to leave another day care.
Tell us on the call. It happens far more than people admit, and it's usually a story about group size and supervision rather than a story about your dog.
Do they need to be trained first?
No. Day care is where a lot of dogs start. If your dog is genuinely hard to handle we might suggest a program first so you get more out of it — but we'll tell you that honestly rather than just taking the booking.
Can I combine it with board & train?
Yes, and plenty of families do. Day care after a program is the easiest way to keep everything you paid for alive during the week.
Can I see where they'll be?
Yes — your dog's free evaluation day is the best way to do it. We keep casual drop‑ins limited during play hours, because a steady stream of new people through the building is genuinely disruptive to the dogs, and that includes yours.
What are the hours?
Monday–Friday 7am–7pm, Saturday 9am–4pm, closed Sunday. We're at 1101 Ohio Drive, Suite 101 in Plano.