Dog Day Care Services in Coventry.

Offering Dog Walking, Dog Day Care and Dog Training by IMDT professionals.

5* licensed with Coventry City Council

Coventry's Interactive Dog Day Care Services

Since 2018, Happy Hounds Coventry have been working hard to make sure dogs live their best lives. We offer more than just dog day care. From beach adventure days, mountain climbing weekends and adventure holidays. This is the Happy Hounds experience, every dog wags their tail for.

Not just your average dog day care. Our interactive day care sessions are run by trained Institute of Modern Dog Training professionals, using and promoting the latest positive reward based training methods. Our regular dog day care is a fun, reliable and social place for dogs to enjoy managed play time, long country walks, enrichment games; as well as build on their basic training skills.

Each session is carefully managed and dogs are placed in peer groups to match their size, age, and personality. An hour's walk is included, either out on a country adventure, or at one of our secure enclosed fields.

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Why send your dog to dog day care?

The benefits of sending your dog to dog day care are huge.

Not only will your dog be provided with varied mental and physical stimulation throughout the day, but a well managed day care environment should offer safe and managed socialistion in well paired groups.

Do you have a puppy? Doggy day care will help to build your pup's confidence in new situations, new environments and surroundings. Positive experiences during the primary and secondary socialisation periods of a dogs life, will ensure the foundations of a more confident and well rounded adult.

DYNAMIC DOG WALKS

Here at Happy Hounds Coventry, we don't just offer dog day care. Our daily training walks inluded with every session, are designed to be fun yet educational.

Being responsible dog walkers, we use our very own private rural paddocks to ensure all dogs have reliable recall, good manners and lead skills before they graduate to one of our big adventure walks. Our secure areas are a safe space to build confidence, practice basic skills and introduce stimulating brain games to our varied sessions.

Our group walks are interactive as well as adventurous, and dogs are required to demonstrate key skills thoughout the sessions. Members of the public often look on in awe as the whole group sit and happily pose for their photoshoot, exhibiting their exceptional sit and stay skills.

On each and every group dog walk, we encourage calmness and engagement through mental stimulation. Key activities include; foraging (hidden treats, finding blackberries), tree climbing (introducing new textures and heights), agility (at our secure paddocks), photo posing (working on distance, duration & distraction) and recall games. All of these mental and physical activities, ensure calmness and good beahviour on our varied walks.

Did you know that five minutes of scent work is equivalent to a 30 minute walk?

What differentiates our dog day care from other companies, is our keen understanding of dog behaviour and body language, allowing us to manage dog on dog interaction. If possible, we ensure dogs are placed into breed appropriate groups, where they are able to demonstrate good play styles and behaviours. Barging, biting or sitting on heads isn't allowed and good dog manners are encouraged at all times. Not all dogs want to play, and it's important that they are given the space they need, for time out, should they need it.

Why Happy Hounds For Dog Day Care?

Six reasons to choose us

Top 3 in Coventry

Three Best Rated Top 3 Dog Walkers in Coventry.

IMDT Members

We're always updating our knowledge on canine behaviour and body language and will soon be qualified trainers by the Institute of Modern Dog Trainers.

Reward Based

Happy Hounds always use and promote positive, reward based training methods during all of our sessions.

Licenced

5 Star licenced and Inspected by CCC. Licence number 001. Insured and first aid trained.

Variety

We offer country adventure dog walking as well as owning our very own private and secure meadows. Perfect for safe play as well as recall practice.

Live Videos

View daily live vidoes of all of our walks, so you can see what your dog is up to throughout the day.

Dog Day Care & Home Boarding Services in Coventry

The most popular choice for the happiest hounds in town!
Our half dog day care is a well structured and organised session for controlled socialisation; mixing both mental stimulation and physical stimulation in the form of scent games, recall training, reward based games and controlled play time. An all round fun, yet stimulating doggy experience to keep those tails wagging. An hour's walk is included in the session where dogs can enjoy off lead time and explore a variety of walk locations. Followed by a hot shower and a blowdry back at our home.

Puppy Day Care

These are structured sessions aimed at puppies from 12 weeks of age. We focus on giving them controlled, positive interactions with similair aged pups, as well as meeting older well mannered dogs. Puppies get to extend their socialisation away from the home environment, building up their exposure to new sights, sounds and smells. Happy Hounds recommend that puppies also attend group training classes alongside our daycare, to learn the basic commands and further build their confidence in new environments.

Home Boarding

Our dog home boarding service is open to our regular day care dogs only. This ensures that they are relaxed and subsequently settle well in a familiar envrionment.
Boarders stay with us in our home and join in with the daycare program Mon-Fri. They enjoy 2-3 walks per day and if staying with us over a weekend, they get to experience one of our adventures further afield. We normally visit the Malverns, Shropshire Hills and the Cotswold on our weekend hiking adventures.

Adventure Days

Our full on beach adventure days are for the more active hounds who are comfortable with travelling longer distances and have brilliant recall. The 3-4 hour long beach walk, allows for plenty of play time, swimming and exploring old ship wrecks; a new and exciting environment for busy noses. Gourmet chicken lunch is included. We have an animal transprt licence for our adventure days.

Full Dog Day Care

The full dog day care is an 8 hour day with an early morning pick up. Dogs join in with the half morning daycare program after being collected from their home. The afternoon includes a second shorter walk, followed by relax and snooze time. Tasty snacks are included. Collection is between 4-5pm.

Natural Treats

We buy and sell our very own range of 100% natural training treats. Our secret to the perfect recall everytime. (Alongside training too of course!)
Only the best quality protein, including duck, venison, beef and pheasant. From recall treats, to harder, longer lasting chews, there's a taste for every mouth. Perfect for teeth cleaning, teething puppies and a brilliant stress relief.

We specialise in dog day care for Working and Show Spaniels of all shapes and sizes. Spaniels thrive on working their brains and doing a 'job' and here at Happy Hounds, we make that happen. A mix of physical and mental stimulation, brain games, agility and building confidence in and around the water, we offer the Spaniel dream.

Dog Day Care For The Happiest Hounds In Town.

Mental & Physical Stimulation. Scent Games & Enrichment Activities.
Safe & Secure Socialising.

Meet The Team

Meet the team behind Happy Hounds Dog Day Care

Emma

In 2018, Emma launched Happy Hounds Dog Day Care. She is the pack leader and always has a trail of trusty hounds not far behind!

Emma strives to offer the best possible day care service, by combining training and behaviour guidance into all day care sessions. Setting a new standard in a heavily unregulated industry is at the forefront of Emma's beliefs.

Emma's credentials below:

Level 3 OFQUAL in Canine Care, Behaviour and Welfare

IMDT: Canine Body Language

First Aid trained

Insured with Protectivity Insurance

Duncan

Duncan is the dog behaviour & training expert at dog day care. Duncan believes in knowing 'the science' behind the methods he teaches, ensuring that welfare and ethics are at the forefront of all modern training techiniques. He is always studying and striving to learn more and pass on his knowledge to every dog owner he meets!

Duncan's credentials below:

Institute of Modern Dog Trainers - Train the Trainer 4 day course

IMDT: Canine Body Language

IMDT: Working With Noise Sensitivities & Phobias

IMDT: Dog Behaviour Studies 1 & 2

IMDT: One Day Perfect Puppy

IMDT: Loose Leaders

First aid trained

Insured with Protectivity Insurance

Halima

Halima runs Happy Hounds dog day care alongside Emma and Duncan. She assists with the daily walks and training advice for all our dogs.

She believes in spreading the knowledge about good training ethics and is always quoting the Steve Mann training guides!

Halima offers home from home dog grooming, often taking our new puppies in for their first ever grooms and getting them socialised in and around all of the grooming equipment.

Halima's credentials below:

Warwickshire College: Grooming Certificate

First Aid Trained

Insured with Protectivity Insurance

Frequently Asked Questions

For most general queries and questions, you would find the answer in these FAQs. For any other query, please contact us using the link below.

What age can my pup join puppy day care?

For our puppy day care, we take pups from 12 weeks onwards or when their last course of vaccinations are complete. Young pups soon become confident and very sociable dogs. They quickly learn good doggy manners and appropriate walking etiquette from their peers.

Do I need to have regular sessions?

For new dogs, we reccommend that they have at least one regular weekly half day care session. This enables them to settle in, bond with us and build relationships with the other dogs, as well as get used to the routine.

Can my dog attend the beach adventure days?

Dogs who come on the beach adventure days need to have perfect recall and be good with travelling for longer periods. It’s a long day trip and may not be suited to every dog.

How do I pay?

We request full payment on the day of service unless otherwise agreed. Boarding payments are required on drop off, or 24 hours in advance if payable by BACS.

Do you accept males who are unneutered?

As a rule of thumb, we generally don’t accept males over the age of 12 months who are not neutered, but this is behaviour dependent. As all dogs are individuals and have different circumstances, e.g, size, breed and various health issues; the neutering age can differ.

What are your pick up and drop off times?

Morning pick ups are between 7-8am Mon-Fri.

My dog isn't great with other dogs, can they still come to Happy Hounds?

Unfortunately not. Not all dogs love being around groups of dogs, in the same way that some of us humans don’t like large groups of people. Our daycare is a friendly and sociable place for dogs to positively interact with each other, if your dog isn’t going to enjoy that, it wouldn’t be the best place for them.

What's Included?