At Bark Easy, we believe that one of the keys to excellent service is providing a relaxed atmosphere for your dog or cat. When your pet feels calm and comfortable, we can do our jobs better and it’s a pleasant experience for everyone. We also strive to provide personalized service that is exactly what you want for your pet.
Bark Easy is a great place to take your dog or cat because we all love animals. We get to know them and take as much time as necessary to do a top-notch professional grooming job. We do not overbook and try to rush your pets in and out. In addition, we use the best available grooming products and techniques.
Carol Hurlburt
Owner/principal/groomer
Carol has been working with dogs and cats since she was a little girl. She has fostered and trained many pets for various rescue organizations. She began grooming professionally in 2003 and opened Bark Easy Pet Grooming LLC shortly thereafter.
Carol strives to create an atmosphere in which dogs and cats and their owners can enjoy their visits to Bark Easy. Whether you have two legs or four. Everyone feels welcome.
At home, Carol has a variety of pets, including two mixed-breed dogs (adopted from Puerto Rico), a pit-bull mix from the south, two cats, a horse and a ferret. A true animal-lover, she enjoys coming to work every day.
Jill Lacroix
Groomer
Jill, a life-long pet lover, has been a professional pet groomer since 1999, grooming all breeds of dogs and some cats, too. She is great at working with customers and their pets to make everyone happy. Jill also volunteers for WRAP, Whippet Rescue and Placement. WRAP rescues dogs, provide medical treatment and training, and places them in good homes. With two Whippets of her own and two cats, she is around pets all day long and loves every minute of it.
Tyree Burbee
Groomer
A professional groomer since 1999, Tyree has been involved with animals her entire life and has fostered and placed many pets through various rescue groups (and on her own). She grooms all dog breeds and is also our “cat whisperer.” Tyree is an amazing cat groomer, as our cat customers can confirm, and – she also has fostered and bred cats as well. Her pet family consists of a pit bull and three cats. Tyree really enjoys working with dogs and cats all day long (and the pets love it, too).
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Bark Easy Pet Grooming shared Canine Correspondence's post.
‘The first consideration with puppy exercise is something called ‘growth plates.’ Growth plates are soft areas that sit at the ends of the long bones in puppies and young dogs. They contain rapidly dividing cells that allow bones to become longer until the end of puberty. Growth plates gradually thin as hormonal changes approaching puberty signal the growth plates to close. In puppies, this closure is normally completed by approximately 18 months old.
Until the growth plates close, they’re soft and vulnerable to injury. After sexual maturity, the growth plates calcify and the rapid cell division ends. The growth plate becomes a stable, inactive, part of the bone, now known as an epiphyseal line.
A dog’s bones are held together with muscles, tendons, and ligaments - soft tissue. In an adult dog, if a joint experiences a stress such as bending the wrong way or rotating too much, the bones will hold firm and a soft tissue will be pulled, resulting in a sprain. In a puppy, however, his muscles, ligaments and tendons are stronger than his growth plates, so instead of a simple sprain, his growth plate is liable to be injured - the puppy’s own soft tissue can pull apart his growth plate.
Why this matters so much is that, unlike a sprain, injuries to the growth plate may not heal properly or not heal in time for the puppy to grow up straight and strong. Injury to a growth plate can result in a misshapen or shortened limb which, in turn, can create an incorrect angle to a joint which can make the puppy more prone to yet more injuries when he grows up.’
- Jane Killion
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