YNP #013: Dog Park vs. Dog Daycare
Your New Puppy: Dog Training and Dog Behavior Lessons to Help You Turn Your New Puppy into a Well-Behaved Dog
Debbie Cilento: Dog Trainer | Dog Behavior Consultant | Owner of Playtime Paws | Belly Rub Specialist
4.8 • 917 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2017
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Both Dog Parks and Dog Daycares are a place for your dog to get exhausted while playing with their friends. Beyond that, you and your dog’s experience are quite different.
Where dog parks are free, daycares cost money. You get to stay and interact and play with the other dogs and people at a dog park but a daycare allows you to take a break while your dog is having fun.
The biggest difference is the socialization and safety of your dog. Like anything that is free, a dog park involves more caution and risk. With dog parks, any owner can show up. Daycares carefully monitor the dog’s health and behavior that participate in the play.
Biggest Takeaway
If you take anything away from this episode it’s this: If your goal is to socialize your dog then a daycare is a place to go and you should avoid the dog park. If you have a dog that is already well socialized, then a daycare still works. A dog park can too, as long as you use common sense and caution.
In this episode, I go through the pros and cons of each so you can decide what is best for you and your dog.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to your new puppies podcast starting you and Your Dog Off on the Right Paw. |
| 0:16.0 | Here's your host, Debbie Salinto. Hello and you are listening to episode 13 of your new puppies podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | Today we're going to talk about dog parks and dog daycares and we're going to look at the differences between them because they're both |
| 0:46.4 | places for your dog to go play off-leash with other dogs and get really tired out. |
| 0:52.1 | But your dogs experience and get really tired out. |
| 0:53.0 | But your dogs experience and your experience |
| 0:56.0 | are vastly different between the tomb. |
| 0:58.0 | So there's some pros and cons to each, |
| 1:01.0 | especially if you have a new puppy. |
| 1:05.0 | So first I want to just define what I'm talking about when I say dog park and daycare. |
| 1:09.8 | This might seem obvious, but just bear with me because I want to make sure that we're on |
| 1:13.4 | the same page so when I say a dog daycare it's usually a facility privately |
| 1:18.9 | owned you know where you drop off your dog maybe it's for a couple hours maybe it's for the day and |
| 1:24.1 | most of them will even take your dog overnight and it's open play off leash they |
| 1:29.4 | get to play with other dogs usually they have them separated by size, some even by temperament, and then there's |
| 1:35.6 | break times worked in, right? And so there's just a couple employees monitoring everything. |
| 1:41.2 | A dog park is usually an outdoor place. It's a park within a park. So it's a |
| 1:47.0 | fenced off area of a public park for the dogs to play off leash. It's maintained usually by, you know, whoever maintains the main park. |
| 1:56.6 | So whether it's the county, the town, the state, so some kind of government entity maintains the park. |
| 2:02.1 | And it's not really supervised. Usually there's a list of rules outside |
| 2:06.4 | the park. It's a public domain, so really anybody can use it as long as they're abiding by the rules and it's kind of self-monitored. |
| 2:16.0 | A big draw to dog parks is that they're free or they're close to it. |
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