We can’t wait to meet you and your your furry friend at doggy day care! If you have any questions don’t hesitate to drop us a message using the contact form.
We receive a lot of enquiries so we ask you please check out our frequently asked questions below before getting in touch.
For all postal enquiries, letters or packages can be sent to us at:
P.O. Box 85
Wyong, NSW
Australia 2259
We’ve often been asked how The Farm came about. You can watch Luke’s story here.
Over the years the farm has grown into something even bigger. With hundreds of thousands of Farm Fans on Facebook and YouTube we now try to share a slice of the joy with the rest of the world.
We often get visited by media and TV shows to come check out what we are doing. Recently we have taken on the responsibility of re-training and re-socialising some abandoned shelter dogs.
The joy and success we’ve had at helping these dogs is one of the many reasons we continue to improve The Farm every day.
Please check out our prices page for all the up to date prices for a Farm Trip.
We don't take any holiday bookings unless your dog is a regular Day Tripper to the farm. To become a regular Day Tripper please fill out an enrolment form and we'll be in touch when a placement opens up to conduct our on-site assessment. We conduct these rigorous assessments for the safety of all our doggy guests.
No not yet. We have plans to heat the pool.
We do our farm day as normal. The dogs come to the farm to run and have fun they don’t want to sit or stand around and neither do we! Here is a video showing a rainy day at the farm.
https://youtu.be/njtOmpHO9OU
Sam, Luke’s wife, takes the videos, puts the videos together with music etc, posts them and manages the social media pages.
Birthday Cake (farm style)
Ingredients
1.5kg of minced meat (chicken, beef or lamb)
1 small butternut pumpkin
Frozen baby peas
Method
Preheat oven to 150 degrees and line a baking tray with baking paper.
Take half of the mixed meat (750g) and mould into the long part of the bone shape on the lined baking tray.
Divide the remaining 750g into 4 balls and place as knuckles on the bone. Blend the edges together, shaping into bone shape.
Bake in oven for 1 hour.
Meanwhile, chop up pumpkin into small cubes and cook in water on the stovetop or microwave.
Mash the pumpkin.
When meat cake is cooked remove from the oven and place on wooden board. Spread the mashed pumpkin on top and use the peas to spell out the lucky birthday dog’s name.
The dogs travel on a custom fitted dog bus with individual compartments and beds. Here is a video of the dogs getting picked up in the morning.
https://youtu.be/wKyCgxuM0yk
Unfortunately we cannot accept visitors to the farm due to restrictions put on us by the local council. On rare occasions we apply for event permits, such as our annual Christmas party, which allows us to have visitors for one day only.
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Working at the Farm is a lot of fun but it also takes a lot of experience and training.
We unfortunately can't offer any volunteer or work experience placements. We are currently not set up to train people to be on-site as this takes a few months to achieve.
If we ever have placements available for full time work at the Farm we'll announce these on all our social media channels.
Luke was Special Forces in the military for 11 years before starting his career with dogs. We first began as a dog walking and dog training business in Sydney. Initially walking dogs and then expanding to have staff walk and Luke training full time. Luke trained many dogs with many different issues but his specialty were dogs on their last chance, some on death row, dogs that were aggressive.
After several years of walking and training we made the move to start the farm. The farm was an idea we had after walking city dogs for years and seeing that an hour walk in the park wasn’t enough for them. We also found that on occasions dog parks were not a safe place and also not a great influence on a dogs behaviour.
We moved to our first farm in 2016 and set up a basic playground on a secure 12 acres. Opening our doors in March 2017. We started with just 4-6 dogs a day and only operating 3 days a week, with no staff just a husband and wife team.
In June 2018 we moved to our current property, 32 acres in Jilliby. We replaced all the old farm fencing with new 6 foot fences, underground anti dig systems and snake mesh. We cleaned up every inch of the property. We built the playground and worked hard improving the ground surface by removing bindis, weeds and laying new turf to create the soft lush paddocks we have today. In 2019 we installed the pool, a 260,000 litre magnesium dog dock diving pool.
While we would love to share the Farm with everyone, we can't hire it out for events. The Farm is being used at all times by our Doggy Day Care guests and on the very rare occasion it's quiet we're busy doing maintenance and improvements for the following week.
We are in Jilliby NSW Australia. Jilliby is a rural suburb on the Central Coast. The Central Coast is approximately an hour north of Sydney CBD and is known for its beautiful beaches and relaxed lifestyle.
It's our vision that dogs from all over the world should get a chance to enjoy a Farm Trip. But, for now, we're not in a position to be able to share what we've learnt so people can build their own farms – but it is something we are wanting to do. Please keep in touch by following us on our social media channels.
When we're ready and able we'll put together a comprehensive guide so that there'll be Doggy Day Care Farm trips from Canada to Cameroon.
In short no.
The long version is while we have never had a fight we have had dogs show signs of anti social behaviour. This can be overly rough play, an aggressive bark or even a nip while chasing for a ball.
Our overall approach to aggression is focused on prevention. To learn more about how we create a wonderful, fun environment for all our guest read more in detail here.
We take dogs of all ages. Most of our puppies are around 4-6 months of age when they first come. To send your pup, they must have had all their vaccinations.
Happiness for all our guest is our top priority. Which is why we have such a detailed enrolment process.
Our overall approach to behaviour is to focused on prevention. To learn more about how we create a wonderful, fun environment for all our guest read more in detail here.
New dogs all have to go through our detailed enrolment process. The first step is a form to fill out then when they come to the farm there's a training process they must go through.
Our overall approach to behaviour is to focused on prevention of bad behaviour. To learn more about how we create a wonderful, fun environment for all our guest read more in detail here.
We have 3 dogs of our own. Joey the Kelpie, Cutie Pie the Pug and Tilly the 6 year old Red Heeler. Tilly used to be a day care dog who’s owner sadly passed away from cancer. A week before she passed she asked ask to have Tilly. Tilly has lived at the farm, in our family ever since.
We take all breeds. The dogs at the farm are a representation of what dogs have enrolled for permanent regular positions and who have passed our assessment. We have cross breeds, pure breeds, designer breeds, powerful breeds, working breeds and rescued breeds!
Swimming activities at the Farm are only for our Day Care guests. The facilities are not open to the public or available for hire.
We usually go through several a week. There are certain days balls don’t get popped but other days there are particular dogs that have the perfect snaggle tooth and know how to use it!
No not yet. We have plans to heat the pool.
We do less water sports and more bush runs, bush walks, paddock races and lure coursing. Activities that are better in the cooler weather or wet weather and not great in the hot weather.
We do our farm day as normal. The dogs come to the farm to run and have fun they don’t want to sit or stand around and neither do we! Here is a video showing a rainy day at the farm.
https://youtu.be/njtOmpHO9OU
We have 4-6 people at the farm
If your enquiry has not already been answered above then please try asking a question under one of our YouTube or Facebook posts. Our community have been with us from the beginning and often help each other out with questions about the farm. Thank you for your interest and support.