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About The Barking Lot

The Barking Lot is a large and welcoming Dog Day Care and Dog Grooming centre just off Portrack Lane Stockton, minutes from the A19 and A66. The Barking Lot provides a safe, stimulating, open and social environment for your dog who will be cared for by experienced and capable professionals. Our opening times of 7am to 7pm to give you the flexibility you need to ensure your dog is well cared for whilst you are out at work, shopping or just want your dog to enjoy some social time and make new friends. With the huge indoor playroom and large outside playground your dog will have a great time playing with new friends in a brilliant environment with the option of being completely pampered in the ‘Hot Dogs’ groom room.

Doggie’s Digest – 7th February 2016

Welcome back for the next instalment of Doggie’s Digest. We’ve had a very busy week (which is always good!).

Thanks to Dexter for being this weeks picture.

Dog training

We have 3 training classes coming up:

Firstly, ‘Tetchy Tuesdays’. If your dog isn’t keen on other dogs then this is the one for you.

We use barriers to create extra space and work on skills to help them with their issues.

It is a drop in session starting Tuesday 9th February at 7:30pm. It is £5 per class and is for dogs of all ages.

Secondly, Happy dogs.

This class is for dogs who are happy to be around other dogs. It’s drop in and it’s only £5. We will cover a range of skills from the basics to adding in distractions, working on manners, tricks, all sorts. It is for dogs of all ages.

This class starts at 8:30pm on Thursday 11th February.

Thirdly, puppy classes.

Do you have a new puppy under 6 months old? This is the one for you.

The next puppy class starts on Thursday 25th February. It is for 6 weeks and costs £39. It starts at 7:15pm

This course isn’t a drop in session so please message/call us if you would like to register for this one.

Do you own a big dog?

We have the facilities to bath big breed dogs.

Max and Benson took advantage of this and look gorgeous.

Send us a message or call us for prices and/or to make an appointment.

Weekend opening

We are currently open Monday to Friday 7am – 7pm. We would like to know if there would be any demand to open on a weekend?

Would you use the service? Both day care and grooming or just one or the other? Please let us know.

Rent our unit

Did you know you could rent our unit? We take party, group or individual bookings. You can rent the unit for the day or even by the hour.

Get in touch if this is something you would like to discuss.

The North East Husky Club wanted somewhere to let their dogs off their leads that would be safe. So we are very pleased they chose us!

Here are a few pictures of what they got up to:

* That’s all for now folks, but we’ll update you again soon with all the goings on at The Barking Lot.

Get in touch via Facebook at thebarkinglotltd, email info@thebarkinglotltd.co.uk or call us on 01642672229 or 07984455097 *

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Doggie’s Digest – 10th January 2016

Welcome back for the next instalment (and first for 2016!) of Doggie’s Digest and Happy New Year.

We hope you all had a great christmas and new year however you celebrated. We are looking forward to what 2016 has to bring and hopefully it will be just as great (or even better) than last year.

Happy 1st Birthday to us!

A year ago (yesterday) we opened for business for the first time. It has flown by and we’ve met some of the most amazing people and their furry friends. We can’t thank everyone enough for their support over the past year and making it a great success. We are so happy people love to bring their dogs to us and are confident in leaving them to have fun and make friends.

Thank you and Happy Birthday to us, heres to another great year

Opening hours

We are back to our regular opening hours, 7-7 Monday to Friday. As most of you will already know, we are very flexible during this time. We can look after your pooch all day or just for a few hours while you go shopping. Let us know what you need and we will do our best to accommodate.

Grooming and bath appointments

Given the weather we’ve been having lately, we expect there is a few smelly dogs out there. Don’t worry – we can fit baths in at pretty much anytime so give us a call or send us a message.

If you would like your dog to be pampered we offer full grooms at very competitive prices. We often update our Facebook page with offers and before and after pictures. Please keep your eyes peeled and if you like what you see get your appointment today!

Why walk in the dark?

If you work all day, you’re more than likely going to be walking your dog in the dark on a morning or night. Why not let us look after them and give them the exercise they need?

During a day care session, we provide exercise and also time for your dog to relax. This way, they come home nice and calm and usually they have made some doggy friends along the way.

Puppy training classes

New Year, New puppy? Let us help.

We are starting a new puppy training class and we can help train your dog to be the perfect well behaved companion. Contact us to avoid disappointment and book your place on today.

As yet, we don’t have an exact start date (it will be soon) but contact us and we will add you to our list.

New equipment – outside play equipment

We are on the hunt for new outdoor play equipment to keep the more adventurous of dogs entertained. We already have things in the day care centre at the moment; however, we want more!

If you are wanting to sell any unwanted play equipment please get in touch. We will let you know if its something we can work with. Not everything will be suitable, swings for example aren’t really the best idea!, but we are hoping to find things that are

* That’s all for now folks, but we’ll update you again soon with all the goings on at The Barking Lot.

Get in touch via Facebook at thebarkinglotltd, email info@thebarkinglotltd.co.uk or call us on 01642672229 or 07984455097 *

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Doggie’s Digest – 20th December 2015

Welcome back for the next instalment (and final for 2015!) of Doggie’s Digest.

Thanks to our staff for being this weeks christmas cover photo.

‘Winter Wooferland’ christmas party

We had an amazing time yesterday at our Winter Wooferland party and we hope everyone who came along did too.

Here are some pictures we took on the day.

Raising money

The money we made from the sale of the cupcakes will be donated to the Cumbrian flood appeal. Thank you to Makey Bakey cupcakery for supplying the amazing cakes.

We want to wish all our customers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for your custom over the past year and making our first year in business a joy

* That’s all for now folks, but we’ll update you again soon with all the goings on at The Barking Lot.

Get in touch via Facebook at thebarkinglotltd, email info@thebarkinglotltd.co.uk or call us on 01642672229 or 07984455097 *

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Doggie’s Digest – 29th November 2015

Welcome back for the next instalment of Doggie’s Digest.

Thank to Junior and Duke for being this weeks cover photo. They look so adorable cuddled up together.

Exciting news

We’ve been shortlisted for Best New Business of the Year Award in the ‘Service’ category. Wahooo! We couldn’t be happier that we’ve been recognised for this award especially as we haven’t yet celebrated our first year anniversary. We would like to say a big thank you to all of you, our customers, who make our job so rewarding. Who wouldn’t want to play fetch with dogs all day!!

Christmas offer – Gift vouchers

We’ve launched our new gift voucher offer for christmas. If you’re stuck for what to buy for a dog loving friend or family member, why not get them a Barking Lot gift voucher. They can be redeemed against day care, grooming and training classes. They can either be collected from the centre or posted out to you if needed.

Christmas range in our shop

Our stock in the shop has changed. As it’s christmas we’ve stocked up on festive doggy essentials. We’ve got dog friendly treat stockings, christmas jumpers (yes, of course they make them for dogs!) and various other gifts. Check out the display in reception today.

Grooming appointments

As we approach the big day (25th December of course!) our Hot Dogs Groom Room appointments are filling up fast. We can usual fit bath and nail clip appointments in on the day; however, full grooms need to be booked. Please call or message and we can let you know when we can get your pooch in. Don’t leave it too late and be left disappointed.

* That’s all for now folks, but we’ll update you again soon with all the goings on at The Barking Lot.

Get in touch via Facebook at thebarkinglotltd, email info@thebarkinglotltd.co.uk or call us on 01642672229 or 07984455097 *

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Doggie’s Digest – 15th November 2015

Welcome back for the next instalment of Doggie’s Digest. We hope everyone has had as much fun as we’ve had this week.

Thank to Riley for being this weeks cover photo and helping to remember the troops past and present on armistice day.

Doggy portraits

Some doggie portraits of some of our day care pooches taken by the wonderful Teesside Pet Photography

Christmas party

We are planning our Christmas party(more details to follow) and are looking for a doggy clothes seller to have a stall at the party. They would need to come along and sell their merchandise on the day. If you know of anyone who makes and sells dog outfits please message us and let us know. Thank you

Festive opening times

We are currently thinking about our Christmas opening times.

Hot Dogs grooming salon:

Our Grooming salon will be closed from 23rd December and will reopen again on 4th of January. Spaces for grooming are filling up quick so if you want your pooch looking fabulous for Christmas Day get them booked in ASAP!

Day care:
Who would like to see our Day Care open over the festive period? Day care will definitely be closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day & New Years Day but we are happy to open any other day if you will need us. We will open between Christmas and New Year if there is demand so let us know if you would like to book with us for the 28th, 29th, 30th or 31st December. If we have enough demand we will of course be open for all your lovely pooches, so please make sure you book your place before 20th December.

We will reopen as normal Monday January 4th 2016.

* That’s all for now folks, but we’ll update you again soon with all the goings on at The Barking Lot.

Get in touch via Facebook at thebarkinglotltd, email info@thebarkinglotltd.co.uk or call us on 01642672229 or 07984455097 *

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Doggie’s Digest – 1st November 2015

Welcome back for the Howl-O-Ween instalment of Doggie’s Digest. We hope everyone loved our howl-o-ween party as much as we did.

We had an amazing time yesterday at our howl-o-ween party and we would like to thank for the following people for all of their support.

Feelwells – Thank you for selling dog treats to our customer on the day. They have also donated the treats we use at the puppy training classes.
Makey Bakey Cupcakery – They provided the pup and cup cakes to all owners and their little friends. Generously, they will be donating the money raised from the sale of the cakes to one of our customers, Emma, to help towards the cost of Millie’s operation. Emma is trying to raise money for Millie’s much needed operation at a cost of £3,000.
End of your Tether – Heather from the dog trainers who was giving advice to owners and also signing people up for the upcoming puppy and dog classes
Teesside Pet Photography – They took lots of great photos for owners who brought their dogs along. We hope you like them as much as we liked watching them be taken

Prize winners

We had a competition with numerous categories and we’ve added a couple below, with great photos too!

Best in show – Roscoe won best in show, well done!

Owner who looks most like their dog – Elvis won this category along with his owner, for obvious reasons…

A huge well done to all of the rosette winners across all categories.

Photos of the party

We’ve added an album to our Facebook page and also here on our website http://thebarkinglotltd.co.uk/gallery/

* That’s all for now folks, but we’ll update you again soon with all the goings on at The Barking Lot.

Get in touch via Facebook at thebarkinglotltd, email info@thebarkinglotltd.co.uk or call us on 01642672229 or 07984455097 *

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Doggie’s Digest – 25th October 2015

Welcome back for the next halloween inspired instalment of Doggie’s Digest. We hope everyone has had as much fun as we’ve had this week.

Thanks to the pumpkin pugs for being our halloween blog photo for this week.

Our Howl-O-Ween party

This coming Saturday (31st October) will be our Howl-O-Ween party and we would loveeeee you and your furry friend to come along. We will have the amazing Makey Bakey Cupcakery with us selling homemade pup cakes for the dogs and cup cakes for the humans! We also have competitions starting from 12:30, you never know your little one might win!!

We hope you can make it and of course fancy dress for both dogs and owners will make the day full of fun. We will take as many pictures as we can and put them on Facebook and in our blog, so keep your eyes peeled.

Dog’s Trust Darlington fund raising event

Hubble, bubble, toil and trouble… Dogs Trust Darlington is calling on dog lovers to attend a very special ‘howl-oween’ fundraising event.

Two-legged and four-legged guests are invited to join in with the spooky goings-on taking place at the Rehoming Centre on Thursday 29th October from 6.30pm to 8.30pm.

The event includes a guided spooky walk, ghastly games, a fancy dress competition for dogs and their owners and lots of opportunities to win prizes and buy doggie treats.

Tickets for the Spook Night are £3 each, which includes homemade soup, and must be bought in advance by calling Rebecca on 01325 335952 or dropping into Dogs Trust Darlington.

Homemade halloween dog treats

Peanut butter and Pumpkin dogs treats recipe

Prep time: 15 mins

Cook time: 40 mins

2 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour

2 eggs

1/2 cup pumpkin

2 tablespoons peanut butter

1/2 teaspoons salt

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Whisk together the flour, eggs, pumpkin, peanut butter, salt, and cinnamon in a bowl. Add water as needed to help make the dough workable, but the dough should be dry and stiff. Roll the dough into a 1/2-inch-thick roll. Cut into 1/2-inch pieces.
Bake in preheated oven until hard, about 40 minutes.

Thanks to allrecipes.com for this one. Let us know how yours turn out

* That’s all for now folks, but we’ll update you again soon with all the goings on at The Barking Lot.

Get in touch via Facebook at thebarkinglotltd, email info@thebarkinglotltd.co.uk or call us on 01642672229 or 07984455097 *

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Doggie’s Digest – 18th October 2015

Welcome back for the third instalment of Doggie’s Digest. It seems a lot of people are reading this blog which is brilliant as we love sharing what we’ve been up to.

Thanks to Fergus for being our beautiful blog photo for this week.

Welcome to the newbies

This week we’ve added some new pooches to our pack! Welcome to Bruce, Maggie and Keane. We hope you’ve had a fab time with us and continue to in the future.

Adult dog training classes

Following the success of our puppy training classes, we will soon be running an adult training class. We’ve had enquiries about this and can now confirm this is something we will be running. As yet, we don’t have a date but we would like you to get in touch if you’re interested. We can then contact you when we’ve got a date and can confirm the details.

Puppy classes

The puppy Class has 9 puppies and classes are going great.

Recently, the puppies learnt how pay attention to their owners, how to sit when asked and started to learn to come back when called as well as being socialised with people with strange hats and clothes – even someone in a Gordon Brown mask!

This was Vivienne the French Bulldog after the class. Her owner Nicola said she was so tired after concentrating in class she started snoring as soon as she got home – ah bless.

Owners were encouraged to train their dogs in 3 different places and here is Teddy the 5 month old Rottweiler doing a lovely ‘sit’ in a very picturesque setting

Schnitzel the miniature Dachshund is a bit worried by things on wheels such as scooters and bikes. His owner Stephanie practised Schnitzel’s ‘sit’ as the same time as socialising him with a wheelchair.

We are currently taking bookings for our next 6 week Puppy Class which will start on Thursday 19th November at 7.30pm. Please contact us if you’d like to register.

Our ‘Hot Dogs’ grooming salon

Our salon has been very busy this week and we’re getting busier in the run up to christmas. Our groomer Kim is off this week (w/c 19th October) for a week but we are taking bookings for next week (w/c 26th October).

During Kim’s week off our grooming apprentice Pippa will be doing half price baths for all the smelly pooches out there. If you’d like to take advantage of this, please contact us and we will book you an appointment.

* That’s all for now folks, but we’ll update you again soon with all the goings on at The Barking Lot.

Get in touch via Facebook at thebarkinglotltd, email info@thebarkinglotltd.co.uk or call us on 01642672229 or 07984455097 *

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Doggie’s Digest – 11 October 2015

Jazz and dennis, at The Barking Lot, Stockton on Tees

Welcome back for the second instalment of Doggie’s Digest. This week has been as busy as ever at The Barking Lot, which is great as we love looking after all of your pooches.

Thanks to Jazz and Dennis for being this weeks featured picture. They were blowing away the monday blues this week during their day care play session.

Dog relaxation music

We try and mix up the activities we provide for your furry friends to keep them engaged and interested. This week we’ve been playing relaxation music for dogs!! That’s right, it exists!

Judging by this picture it went down very well…

Grooming appointments

This week has been very busy in our Hot Dogs grooming salon. We are also nearly full for next weeks appointments. This is a snippet (pun intended) of what’s been happening this week…

Our groomer is taking a (well deserved) week off as of 19th October but we will still be offering bathing appointments.

We don’t want anyone to be disappointed on the run up to christmas, so we are also taking bookings for November and December. Give us a call, drop us an email or Facebook message to secure your slot today.

Students and volunteers

This week we’ve has a student on placement with us who has been helping to look after all of your pooches. We’ve also had volunteers who have been such a good help. This is invaluable to us and we can’t thank you enough. We also hope you’ve had a great time with us and got a lot out of it

Puppy Training

Our puppy class has continued this week and we hope it’s going well for everyone who is attending. The next course starts in November for anyone who may need any help and tips of how to train their furry friend.

Howl-O-Ween

It’s not long now until our Howl-O-Ween party. We are very excited to see you all there and how adorable your dogs will look all dressed up. We have some halloween themed bandanas in our shop if anyone is still in need of something for their dog.

For those who need the information, the party will be on Saturday 31st October from 12-3pm. We hope to see you all there.

That’s all for now folks, but we’ll update you again soon with all the goings on at The Barking Lot.

Get in touch via Facebook at thebarkinglotltd, email info@thebarkinglotltd.co.uk or call us on 01642672229 or 07984455097

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Welcome to ‘Doggies Digest’

Junior on the tunnel, at The Barking Lot, Stockton on Tees

It’s been a very busy week at The Barking Lot. We have lots to share and things to update you all on. This is our first instalment of ‘Doggies Digest’ and we will keep you updated regularly.

Firstly, thanks to Junior for being our blog picture for this week. I’m sure he will soon learn how the tunnel works!

Charity bathathon

On Saturday 3rd October our expert groomer Kim held a bathathon to raise money for a local poorly dog. She bathed 23 dogs and raised an amazing £220! Thank you to all of our customer’s who donated money to this worthy cause and we hope Milly the Yorkshire Terrier gets well soon.

Puppy training classes

This week was our second puppy training class. The sessions are going very well and we hope all of the owners are seeing an improvement in their young pups.

The current puppy class is fully booked however we do have another one starting in November. If you would like to reserve your place please email Heather at info@endofyourtether.co.uk.

Big Kev’s 1st birthday

This week we helped to celebrate Kevin’s 1st birthday. He may be big, but never too big to wear a party hat!!

Happy Birthday Kevin!

‘Hot dogs’ grooming salon

We have space in our grooming salon for anything from a nail clip to a full groom. All of our prices and services are on the website or if there’s something more specific you’re after, send us an email or Facebook message. With christmas not far away (scary how fast it comes round each year!) our salon will book up quickly. We are taking early reservations if you want to get your pooch a guaranteed spot.

That’s all for now folks, but we’ll update you again soon with all the goings on at The Barking Lot.

Get in touch via Facebook at thebarkinglotltd, email info@thebarkinglotltd.co.uk or call us on 01642672229 or 07984455097

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