Residential Training, Boarding and Health Retreats

Call us on 0455097088 to book your dog’s holiday or training, or for help with questions

Call Sonia on 0455097088 to book your dog’s holiday or training, or for help with questions, or if you prefer, online booking is available through the following button

Residential Stays - Boarding and residential Training

We love providing a home-away-from-home for dogs staying with us for boarding or residential training.

We offer a very limited number of places, so it is best to book well in advance, especially for holiday periods.

Boarding: We offer boarding for all breeds, and have a facility unlike any other. Most facilities have lock down periods enforced overnight, often wire to wire enclosures, and these can contribute to a high noise, high stress environment. We are very different, with just 18 rooms, all private, no wire between dogs, and no stressful lockdown times. Instead, we have large, private rooms, all with their own permanent, 24/7 access to outside runs as well.

Classic Suites Our classic accommodation provides spacious rooms with trampoline beds, shared accommodation with access to large outdoor runs 24/7.

• Long daily Playtime sessions for a happy, relaxed dog

• Individual love and attention from experienced staff

• Ziwi treats

• Toys changed daily

• Ability to toilet outside on artificial turf whenever needed, not just when let out for a break.

• Quality food

• Air conditioned shared rooms

Pricing

All our rooms have their own 24/7 access inside and out, nice beds, toys, food and tons of love and care. And no wire to wire runs, or lockdown times. All dogs have nice long play times, toys changed daily and tons of pets and love.

The following indicative rates are all per day, per dog and + GST. All rates subject to change and availability.

Classic Shared: $49.90

Classic Private Room: $69.00

Luxury Private Room: $89.50

Luxury Shared Room: $62.80

Surcharge Entire, Reactive or Dogs over 28kgs: $14

Holiday Surcharge: $14.90

Collection or Drop off: $13.80 per dog to meeting point in Brisbane or Toowoomba.

Taxi to home $18.50 per 15 minutes return to meeting point plus tolls.

Training Sessions: $44

Booking: Please phone us on 0455097088, so we can discuss your dog’s individual needs and dates required. Due to the demand, there is a $200 non-refundable deposit for all bookings, which we can take with a card payment at the time the booking

Training: We can provide training for your dog, with limited spaces available for this. Your dog will receive their personally customised training program, with our very experienced trainers, and a video of your dog’s progress before they come home. We also offer a training handover, so you can learn to work with your dog, and understand new commands and behaviours. We link your training requirements to your accommodation wishes, tailoring this to your requirements, and your dogs abilities. Call us on 0455097088 to discuss your requirements and to make your booking for residential training.

Health Retreats: If your dog has been using their big brown eyes to get more food than is healthy, then a stay with us may be just what they need. We start with a vet consult, assistance with diet and an exercise program. With dogs who are prone to go overweight, a health retreat and ongoing weight management can help avert expensive medical and surgical outcomes from being overweight. Please phone for more details.

Special Care Guests: We are able to assist with special care requirements, whether post operative care, aged care or palliative.

Our Accommodation

Location - Our guests come from Sunshine coast, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Toowoomba areas. We provide our Taxi service twice weekly to our meeting point in Sinnamon Park, near Jindalee off the Centenary Highway, also Bundamba. We do collections and drop offs on Mondays and Fridays except when there is a public holiday, in which case it is the closest day to that (usually a Tuesday or Thursday). We are located on 250 acres near Toowoomba which is why we dont have the lock down requirements of most facilities.

Accommodation- In many commercial kennels, dogs are kennelled in small areas, often in wire mesh enclosures so they dont have privacy from dogs that could be threatening through enclosures, which results in a very noisy, stressful environment. Cider Fields is very different from that. All our rooms are air-conditioned, spacious and comfortable, and all have permanent access to outside runs. We dont use wire mesh, so dogs feel comfortable having a private space. We are careful to reward quiet, calm behaviour in dogs, and understand that dogs are always being trained. Tons of love and a top diet are across all our accommodation options. As a result, we have a much quieter kennel environment, reducing the stress on your friend. These aspects are for all accommodation. We include things such as toys, and if owners are happy with it, a raw chew bone such as kangaroo sternum or emu rib. We dont just run them for a very short time. Our guests have lots of play time.

Luxury Rooms: Our Luxury Rooms are a home away from home. A private space with a similar sized friend. Watch this little MOVIE of a pup enjoying his luxury room.

Keep Updated: We provide two videos or photos a week, taken on Monday or Tuesday, and again on Thursday or Friday, and texted to you. We do not take videos or photos over weekends. You are welcome to come and visit our facility during the week, or we can facetime or whatsapp.

Music: Calm Radio is played soothingly as background music during the night. During the day there may be a little classical or talk back.

Tons of Daily Love and Attention from our knowledgeable carers. Our staff have qualifications from NDTF trainer, vet nurse and Animal Studies, and are very passionate about dogs and their wellbeing. Your dog will receive lots of cuddles and games while they are here.

Group Play Sessions: with dogs of similar size and temperament supervised by our experienced carers. Your dog can enjoy playtime with balls, or just sit and be petted.

24 Hour Vet Services on call if needed

Diet, Care and Bonuses

Premium Food every day (Lyka fresh food, Big Dog Raw, Royal Canin and Stay Loyal Kibble). For short term stays we prefer to use the food your dog is used to.

Health & Weight Checks: Nose to tail health check and weigh in on arrival and departure. For longer term dogs this is repeated frequently in between.

Doggie Spa: Bath and blow dry for all dogs on week day departures.

Toys Galore: Toys available all day. These are changed daily with clean, different toys.

Feeding Frequency: We work on best practice for dogs in terms of feeding frequency. If dogs are fed too frequently, it interferes with digestion. Dogs have not evolved to eat multiple times a day as adults. Please read the following research article on feeding frequency. The current research findings are that “Controlling for sex, age, breed, and other potential confounders, we found that dogs fed once daily rather than more frequently had lower mean scores on a cognitive dysfunction scale, and lower odds of having gastrointestinal, dental, orthopedic, kidney/urinary, and liver/pancreas disorders. Therefore, we find that once-daily feeding is associated with better health in multiple domains”. We feed adult dogs once a day, unless for health reasons. If you wish for your dog to be fed more frequently, we can do that, at a small cost for each additional feed. Dogs up to 6 months of age are fed more frequently.

Pet Transfers

Our pet taxi goes to Brisbane on Fridays and Mondays each week. This saves you the drive out to us, although you are welcome to come and drop off if you wish during business days. There is an out of hours pickup and drop off fee of $40 if those are required.

Requirements

Vaccination Requirement: We need to sight your dog’s vaccination card, with C5 vaccination current for whole stay, and tick / flea preventative medication dates. Preferably upload your card onto our booking portal, or photograph and text to us on 0455097088.

Photo: Please send a photo of your dog, clearly showing their face. This is printed out on your dog’s run card. Preferably upload your card onto our booking portal, or photograph and text to us on 0455097088.

Extras:

• Aged Care: Dogs over 11 years of age.

• Health Retreats: For fitness and weightl

• Medication: Medication and treatment application

• Own food storage and meals (Please send food in plastic bag or container you dont want back, thank you.)

• Pigs ears

• Kangaroo sternums

• Extra care (sutures, elizabethan collars (must be solo rooms) difficulty with mobility

• Individual Training Sessions

• Additional Shampoo and Blow Dry (Included free of charge before leaving, and on entry)

• Toe Nails Clipped:

• Ears Cleaned Carefully:

• Hygiene clip (bottom, and around eyes)

• Full Clip

• The Works - Shampoo, blow dry, full body clip, toe nails, ears, massage

• Matted Dogs – if dogs are matted, we can clip, however there is a surcharge due to the additional time it takes, and your dog will sometimes to be clipped short in this case.