About Audrey’s Barkyard

Audrey's Barkyard is a Wake Forest pet business on Heritage Trade Drive whose own banner reads "DAYCARE – BOARDING – GROOMING – TRAINING – RETAIL." It is run by Mandy and Josh Donahue, Wake Forest residents who the site says have "dedicated themselves to the welfare of animals since 2007" through pet foster care, kennel work and animal rescue before turning it into a business. The name is a memorial: "Audrey was their beloved beagle who sadly passed in 2015."

Training as a real service line

What separates this from the other daycare businesses in the metro is that training is treated as a product in its own right. The site carries a Dog Training service page, a Dog Training Prices page and a Dog Training Payment Plans page – a payment plan being an unusual thing to publish for a service that is only an add-on. Boarding, grooming, daycare and cat boarding each have their own rate pages alongside.

What else the business does

Pet fostering is listed among the services, which fits the owners' background, and the business offers tours of the facility before booking. Its stated promise is plain: "We will honor your fur baby as if they are our own."