Our Barking Lot

10/25/2024

10/06/2024

Regarding Fleas and flea control:
Each adult female flea lays 40 eggs a day. Then, every subsequent female flea that hatched and fed, also lays 40 eggs a day until your pet is itchy enough for you to notice them.
There are now thousands of flea eggs, larvae, and pupae in your home. The eggs will be found scattered wherever pets spend time, as well as hitching rides on people traveling from room to room. The larvae move away from light, and then pupate into an impenetrable shell, and sprays/bombs won’t kill them. Read this paragraph again, it will be important later.
The baby fleas hatch out when triggered by heat, vibration or flashes of light - all things that happen when a warm tasty mammal is nearby. They can lie in wait for up to a year before hatching.

Bathing with Dawn very effectively kills the fleas on your pet, but it’s efficacy ends the minute you rinse it off.
As soon as your pet walks away, it’s heat and movement trigger a new baby flea to hatch, jump on your pet, and feed. It continues to lay 40 eggs a day until the next bath.
This becomes a work intensive and very frustrating cycle.

Over the counter flea collars are useless!!!
The Seresto collar is the only good flea collar but can't be used on kittens.
Many topical treatments are the same. They become more effective when combined with an Insect growth regulator- Pyripoxyfen is a common one, and is found in topicals like frontline plus.
The Fipronil in Frontline kills the adults, and the insect growth regulator Pyripoxyfen prevents the eggs and larvae from developing into adult fleas, effectively breaking the life cycle.
Now, you still have the pupae that are already developed to account for, and it takes THREE CONSECUTIVE MONTHS of treatment, at minimum, to break the flea life cycle because of these pupae which will continue to hatch and hop on your pets until the medication kills all of them.
The newer products, such as Advantage are even more effective. They kill the fleas faster, preventing them from laying eggs at all. It can still take several weeks or months for your pets to trigger all the pupae to hatch.
Regardless of which product you use, you will still need to use it for a MINIMUM of 3 months.
You’re probably grossed out now, and want to go buy every chemical ever made to coat your house, but this isn’t an effective strategy.
Remember those pupae are impervious to chemicals. So bombs and insecticides will kill flea eggs and larvae, but not the pupae.
The most effective secondary treatment is vacuuming. Vacuuming is work, so we want to make sure that effort is put to good use.

Now going back to the flea life cycle. Eggs will be anywhere your pet goes. Everywhere he walks, plays or sleeps. If you have bedding that can go through the wash, go ahead and wash it.
Think of every place your pets go, and vacuum thoroughly. Hallways, couches, bedding, under and behind furniture. Don’t miss anything.
Then we go after the larvae/pupae. The larvae don’t like light, so they will be under and behind furniture, under couch cushions, along floorboards, and other places you might not hit with normal vacuuming.
Thorough vacuuming with the life cycle in mind is extremely effective, and can reduce the flea population in your home by 80%.

09/22/2024

❤️ Eli, ❤️ Milo and ❤️ Kelsey

09/08/2024

Happiness is…

09/08/2024

Leia ❤️ and Peewee ❤️

08/31/2024

🐕‍🦺 Service dog available! (FB is separating the caption from the video in shared, so I'm reposting with just a photo) Video in prior post but MANY videos available by request! Information below:

Chip, AKA Puzzles Chips and Dip, is a 2.5 year old chocolate male from our 12/27/21 Zola x Thorin litter who is available to a service dog or potentially a facility dog home (a specialized therapy dog.)

Chip was born, raised, and trained here with us and has been through high levels of training. He is a bombproof boy who is stable and confident in any situation. He has been extensively public access trained over the last two years, and has been to many places and experienced many things including:

--Doctor's Offices
--Hospitals
--Malls
--Stores
--Restaurants
--PATCO Trains
--Cities
--Movie Theaters
--Fairs
--Hotels
--Dog Shows
--Baseball Games
--Elevators
--Farm Animals
AND MORE!

Chip has been handled by different people with ease and is comfortable with wheelchairs, walkers, and electric scooters. He has been on elevators, in restrooms, and rides nicely in the car.

Chip is very in tune with his handler and has a natural sense for when providing comfort is needed. He loves giving and receiving physical affection and will bring a smile to anyone's face with his happy go lucky attitude.

Taskwork has been started and can be discussed based on his future handler's needs.

Chip will absolutely excel as a service dog, and that is where his training has beeng geared, but he does also have a social, friendly temperament, so he would also do really well as a facility/therapy dog, so we are also willing to take applications for that career as well. Tasks if needed can also be discussed for facility work.

Chip's parents are both health tested, and his littermate sister has also been health tested clear. Chip's parents are both clear of any DNA testable inherited diseases, so he is clear by parentage as well.

Chip was neutered at over 2 years old and is up to date on core vaccines He is a medium sized chocolate labrador male weighing 70 lbs.

To fill out an application for Chip, please see the link below:

🔗https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScxrnFEzzJH5ghuvqNjeRMcET6D95y6pqX3qgK1PWgTsWzR9w/viewform?usp=sf_link

08/31/2024

Winnie ❤️ Luna ❤️ Yoshi ❤️ Mickey ❤️ Callie ❤️ Hollie ❤️ Daphnie ❤️
HAPPY LABOR DAY WEEKEND TO ALL!

08/28/2024

08/16/2024

❤️ Jax and Nubbin ❤️

08/14/2024

❤️ Moscow & Martini ❤️

08/09/2024

Alaska ❤️ Tippy ❤️
Ferbie ❤️ Sophie ❤️