Now enrolling · Vallejo, California
Party of 4 is a daycare with a hard cap of four dogs — not four per handler, four total. Membership holds your dog's place every business day, so the morning drop-off is never a question of whether there's room.
Why four
Most daycare in the East Bay runs on volume: large rooms, rotating staff, dozens of dogs sorted roughly by size. It works for some dogs. It is not attention, and it isn't what you'd choose if the room were yours to design.
Four is the number where a person can still know each dog — how they greet, when they get tired, which play they enjoy and which they tolerate. It's also the number where a bad afternoon gets noticed in the first minute instead of the last.
Dogs on site, maximumEvery day. Not a target, a cap. When the fourth slot is taken, the day is closed.
Person, all dayThe same handler from drop-off to pickup — no shift change, no new face at 2pm.
Photo updates, dailySent midday and again before pickup, with a line about how the day actually went.
Crates during the dayRest happens on a bed in a quiet room. Crating only if your dog prefers one and you ask for it.
The day
Dogs settle when the shape of the day is predictable. Here's the shape.
Staggered by fifteen minutes so each dog is greeted alone rather than absorbed into a group. Leash off, water, a slow walk of the yard.
Open play in the fenced yard, supervised the whole time. Dogs who'd rather sniff than wrestle get the shade and the long grass, and that counts as play too.
Quiet indoors. Dogs fed separately, on your schedule, with your food. Medication given as directed and logged.
Scent games, puzzle feeders, short one-to-one work on the manners you're already teaching at home. We'll follow your cues so nothing gets undone here.
A last stretch outside while the light is good, then paws wiped, coats brushed, dogs handed back tired rather than wired.
Come when your evening allows. You'll get a two-line report on the day — appetite, energy, anything worth knowing.
Membership
A membership reserves one of the four places for your dog on every business day of the month, whether or not you use it. That's the point: no booking window, no waitlist on a Tuesday morning, no scramble when a meeting moves.
The membership
About $66 a day across the 21 business days in an average month.
Billed on the first through the client portal. There is no daily rate, no punch card and no fourth slot kept open for walk-ins.
Start intake formExtras, billed as used
Extras are billed as used and appear on your monthly invoice. Membership covers every business day the daycare is open; we close on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, and December 24, 25 and 31, and the rate already accounts for those days. Thirty days' notice to end a membership. Enrollment includes a meet and greet and a trial half day at $75, credited to your first month if you join. Members who commit to a full twelve months pay $1,285 — ask at the meet and greet.
We are opening now, and all four places are available. The first four members keep their opening rate for as long as they stay, through any future increase. Once the fourth is filled, the only way in is the list.
Fully fenced, shaded most of the day, with soft ground underfoot and water within reach of anywhere a dog decides to lie down. Four dogs is a lot of room per dog.
Fit
With four dogs sharing a yard all day, the group has to work. Every dog meets us first, then spends a trial half day before a membership starts.
If it isn't the right room for your dog, we'll say so plainly and point you somewhere better suited. That's a better outcome than a month of bad afternoons.
Start intake formQuestions
Nothing changes and nothing is credited. The membership buys the reservation, not the days — the same way a parking space costs the same in a week you take the train. It's what makes the guarantee possible, and it's why we don't sell days to anyone else.
Not as a rule, and never from someone new. When a member travels, that day is occasionally offered to a dog we already know — a current member's second dog, for instance. There's no published day rate and no slot held open for it, because the group only works when the same four dogs know each other.
Not for daycare. Both change the dynamic of a small standing group in ways that are hard to manage fairly. We're glad to recommend a puppy program and revisit once your dog is older.
We close on nine days a year, listed above, and the rate already accounts for them. Overnight and weekend care is offered to members only, priced separately — ask and we'll tell you what's open.
A private home with a large fenced yard in Vallejo, a few minutes off I-80. Because it's a home rather than a storefront, we send the address once we've read your profile and set a time to meet — it keeps the day quiet for the four dogs who are already here.
Through the client portal, on the web or in the Time To Pet app. Travel days, a late pickup, a change of food, a new vaccination certificate — it all goes in there and reaches us straight away. Anything same-day is better as a text.
Drop-off is staggered between 7:30 and 9:00, pickup between 5:00 and 6:00. Door-to-door service runs within a fifteen-minute radius of us in Vallejo for $20 each way.
Yes — general liability and animal bailee coverage for every dog in our care. We'll share the certificate on request, and we're happy to talk through emergency protocol and the veterinary practice we use.
Enrollment
Profiles, vaccination records, the service agreement, your schedule, the daily report card and billing all live in one place — our client portal, run on Time To Pet. Start there and everything after it is already in order.
Ten minutes on the new client form: your details, your dog's, vaccination records uploaded, and the service agreement signed. Nothing is charged and no slot is committed yet.
Within one business day, with the address and a time to come by. Every profile is reviewed before it's approved, because four dogs means the group has to fit — and being early means you help set the tone of it.
We send you the address and you both come see the yard. If it feels right, we book a trial half day at $75 with the dogs your dog would actually be spending the day beside. Credited to your first month.
Your days appear on the portal calendar, the first invoice posts, and autopay takes it from there on the first of each month.
New here
Opens our new client form. You can stop partway and come back — nothing is submitted until you finish.
Would rather just ask a question first? Email info@partyof4daycare.com or call (510) 495-0495.
Already a member
Everything about your dog's care, on the web or in the Time To Pet app.
We are opening now, which means the roster is empty and the first four members shape what this place is. Ten minutes on the intake form starts it. Nothing is charged and nothing is committed.
Start intake form Rather talk first? Call (510) 495-0495 or email info@partyof4daycare.com.