Animal Care Center is a full-service veterinary medical facility, located in Joppa, MD. The professional and courteous staff at Animal Care Center seeks to provide the best possible medical care, surgical care and dental care for their highly-valued patients.
Overnight Boarding
After our daycare guests go home for the day, our overnight guests are ready to go out for additional play sessions. Before the evening play session, dinner is served! We provide tasty, high quality chicken and rice-based diets from Beaver Dam pet food. Beaver Dam food is a chicken and pork-based diet with no by-products, no corn, wheat or gluten, and no artificial colors or flavors. We can also accommodate dogs with special diets such as frozen, raw, or canned.
Preparing Food
When bringing food from home, we require all food to be individually packaged in Ziploc bags for each feeding. We typically feed twice a day, but a third (lunch time) feeding can be added at no additional charge. Pre-bagging food ensures that every dog staying with us gets the correct food and correct amount. All food is kept in individual air-tight locking bins. For this reason, we cannot accept open bags of kibble.
Sleeping Accommodations
All of our guests are settled in for bed around 9:00pm. All dogs are provided with thick, cushioned bedding.
Each suite has a thick, cushioned bed to ensure our guests have a wonderful night’s sleep. Our 24-hour on site staff are always available for any dogs with special needs during their sleep over. Dogs are never alone in the facility.
Additional Play Sessions
Overnight guests have an additional evening play session from approx. 7:00pm – 8:30pm, and an additional morning play session from 5:00am to 6:30am followed by a nutritious breakfast!
Requirements
All of our overnight guests are screened according to the daycare process. All sleepover guests must attend and successfully pass their first overnight trial day of daycare prior to staying for overnight services. Occasionally a dog may require more than one day to become acquainted with other dogs and our staff. If this occurs, please keep in mind that we only want your furry friend to be as comfortable as possible to ensure they enjoy a relaxed and worry free stay. Our overnight guests play in the same groups as the daycare dogs and enjoy an additional two play sessions. Special arrangements in care are taken with our geriatric, special needs dogs, and puppies. You are welcome to pre-fill out the boarding forms and bring them in with you at the time of your reservation.
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