The Making of Our Daycare
Welcome to Mindfulpaws Doggy Daycare! Our journey from construction to completion is finally here, and we’re thrilled to open our doors to dogs of all sizes. Every space has been purposefully designed with your dog’s safety, joy, and enrichment in mind. We invite you to explore our facility and see how we’ve created the perfect environment for your pup to thrive.
We’re officially open and ready to welcome your furry friends!
Enriching Smells
Our own dogs love the infused smells of the furniture in the daycare.
Dogs love Platforms
Maggie loved testing out the dog platforms, with there multiple levels.
Zoomie areas
Our acre paddock is perfect for our dogs to enjoy their zoomie moments.
Dog-O-Saurus Skeleton
The tyre dog-o-saurus will provide the perfect place for our dogs to play.
Second Driveway
We want to make sure that its easy to get in and out of the daycare venue.
Internal Fitout
Setting up the internal space for our dogs to run around in.
The Enrichment Garden
Our small paddock will be filled with natural enrichment for all the dogs.
Dog Bays coming Together
It’s great to see the external dog run structures coming together.
Great people
We’ve had some awesome people help myself and Papia with this journey. Thanks everyone.
Important Site Access
Creating pathways allows dogs to move safely around the doggy daycare.
Pathways to heaven
Being able to gain access to all the dog paddocks for maintenance was needed.
It’s a Post Party
We spent a long time getting the dog runs correct with air-locks for health and safety.
Landscaping begins
I love plants so having an excuse to build another plant bed is brillant.
Fencing Frenzy
Dogs Jump, so Jeff from Agri Fencing helped dog proof all our daycare fences.
Native Boundary Plants
Using native plants to form boundaries fits in with our mindful approach to life.
Look Mini Mountains
Our Digger guy, Kane, created our very on special mini mountain range for our dogs.
Bob Cats? No Dog Daycare
What an amazing machine for spreading aggregate. Good old Kane.
Drink of Water Anyone?
Dogs drink a lot of water, so big thanks to John and his team at On the Spot Plumbing.
Thats a lot of plywood!
We lost count of the number of plyboards we used to line the daycare, but it looks great.
No it’s not grass?
Cleaning is important when running a daycare so painting the floor makes total sense.
A few amendments
A few last minute changes to the design courtesy of Russell O’Keefe Builders.
The Right Machine
It’s easy with a the right tools. Thanks to Kane from On Point Contracting we had it covered.
Concrete Crazy Crazy…
Its all about limiting the mess, we don’t want our dogs going home dirty do we.
Concrete Crazy
What would we do with out Steve and Kane. Laying the daycare floor was a breeze.
Last piece in place
I’m amazed how quickly these guys worked, they pretty much finished the jigsaw in 4 days.
The roof’s on
It’s always a relief when the roof goes up. Skylight will ensure plenty of light for the dogs.
The Jigsaw begins
With the foundation in place its time to start building the kit set from ITM Stratford.
Where it started
Getting a solid foundation for any business is the most important thing at this stage.
The location is perfect
Nestled on 2.5 hectares our location is the perfect rural retreat for your dog.
Future Foundations
Living with 10 dogs of our own it feels like a doggy daycare every day. So we thought we would combine the two!