Welcome to Andy's
We know your dog isn’t just a pet—they are family. Andy’s is a premier Melbourne canine social club designed to give your pup the exact level of love, adventure, and interaction they get at home.
While you take care of your day, your dog is here living their absolute best life, building confidence, and making lifelong friends.
The Story Behind The Smile
Andy was the ultimate good boy, the original pack leader, and the heart behind everything we do. Though he is no longer with us, his joyful spirit, endless energy, and love for adventure run through our entire Brunswick East facility every single day. Our founder, Shane, created Andy’s Doggy Day Care as a living tribute to his best mate. Shane's mission was simple: to build a clean, premium, open-plan sanctuary that gives Melbourne dogs the elite care and safety that Andy deserved. When your dog joins the pack, they aren’t just a guest—they are part of Andy's legacy.
The Original Wall of Fame
Meet Our Pack Leaders
Why Your Pup Is In Safe Hands
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🐾👥 Over 35 Years of Collective Experience: From senior pack management to advanced canine behavior, our tight-knit team has over three decades of professional pet care experience under our belts. There is no play style or temperament we haven't successfully managed.
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🐾📜 Formal Industry Qualifications: We don't just hire casual supervisors. Our core team holds formal Australian certifications in Companion Animal Studies, Canine Biology, and Professional Dog Grooming to truly understand your pup's body language and needs.
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🐾⛑️ Canine First Aid Certified: Absolute safety is our baseline. Our senior team members are fully certified in canine CPR and emergency pet first aid, ensuring rapid, expert care on our play floors and park runs.
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🐾🎓 University-Backed Care: Our dedicated assistants are currently pursuing university degrees while undergoing extensive, hands-on training to master advanced pack safety.
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🐾🌡️ Climate-Controlled Play:
❄️ Winter Warmth: Powered by split-system heating, cosy blankets, and winter jackets for maximum comfort.
☀️ Summer Cooling: Featuring 6 high-powered factory fans, raised beds for airflow, and 3 outdoor dog pools to splash in.
- 🐾🛡️Fully Insured for Total Peace of Mind: Andy’s is backed by Comprehensive Business Cover and Public Liability insurance to protect your pup, our staff, and our community.
🐾 Our Pawtners 🐾
Andy's is incredibly proud to partner with premium brands that share our passion for keeping your pup happy, healthy, and at their best.
Dr Ricky
At Andy’s Doggy Daycare, our dogs don’t just sit around all day. They are constantly moving, running, playing, socialising and using their bodies for hours at a time. Just like humans, dogs can experience tight muscles, soreness, stiffness, fatigue and small injuries from everyday activity. Especially active dogs, senior dogs, bigger breeds and dogs recovering from previous injuries. Having a physiotherapist involved in a daycare environment is something we believe is incredibly important. Prevention is always better than waiting until there is a problem. Dr Ricky helps assess, mobility, muscle condition, recovery, flexibility and overall physical wellbeing, to help keep our daycare dogs feeling their best. Having expert eyes on ours dogs, adds another layer of care that we are proud to offer.
The Good Hound Company
What’s the luck to your dog being well behaved?
At The Good Hound Company, Ana the owner takes the time to understand each dog’s individual personality, history and environment crafting a training plan that’s as unique as your pup. Whether your dog struggles with reactivity, anxiety, resource guarding or simply just needs help adjusting to new environments, The Good Hound Company provides personalised, evidence based solutions that will have a lasting impact. The goal isn’t just to get your dog to behave, it’s to teach them the skills they need to self regulate, feel confident in any situation and build a life of calm. With the right guidance and tools, every dog has the potential to transform.
King Of Paws
King of Paws is a pet store and pet care business located in Thomastown, Victoria. It specialises in pet supplies, treats, accessories, clothing, beds, toys, and other products for dogs and cats. King Of Paws is a luxury pet store and "one-stop pet shop" for pet owners. While Andy's Doggy Daycare focuses on care, socialisation, and enrichment, King of Paws provides quality products, treats, and accessories for your furry friends. We're two local businesses in the dog industry coming together to share our services and support the wider dog community. Because when we work together, dogs win.
Ecomime
Ecomime is a pet care brand offering premium shampoo and conditioner, designed with your pets skin and coat in mind. We are always careful about what products we use on the dogs in our care. Their shampoo and conditioner are 100% cruelty free and vegan. They are designed to gently cleanse, nourish and moisturise your dog’s skin and coat. Leaving their coat feeling soft and healthy with animal welfare in mind.
Orijen
What caught our eyes when partnering with Orijen was their approach to nutrition. Dogs are not to be built off, cheap filler and processed junk. They are ancestral carnivores and they thrive on a diet rich in quality protein. Not just meat, but nutrient dense ingredients, which is exactly Orijens whole prey approach. All customers and public can buy Orijen products that we sell in our office.