Bark Avenue Sponsorship

Bark Avenue is proud to sponsor the Can Do Caper which is an amazing race style event run in and around the Adelaide CBD to raise funds for Can Do for Kids & Deaf Can Do.

If you're going to the awards dinner make sure to get your paws on one of our vouchers.

Best of luck to all the teams. Hope the winners love their doggy prize packs from Bark Avenue!

$5 off Puppia Soft Harnesses at Bark Avenue

We LOVE the Puppia Harness - and we know your dog will love it too. We want every dog to own one of these great harnesses, so we're giving everyone $5 off our most popular item.

Just print out this voucher and bring it in store to get $5 off your very own Puppia Harness! Dogs are welcome in store too so we can fit it to them perfectly. No more rubbing and chafing - the Puppia Harness is super soft and comfortable. It's washable too so you can even swim in it. You can even convert it into a car harness - ask us how when you come down.

But hurry, it's only valid until Friday the 10th of September, or until stocks run out.

Interactive fun toys at Bark Avenue Brighton

Bag 'O Balls is a great toy for clever dogs. A colourful plush circle containing eight fun size plush balls - four with squeak and four without.

Play interactively with your dog by letting them remove the balls from the bag in search of the squeaky ones and then reloading them inside to let the fun begin again. Hours of bonding fun for you and your dog.

The Bag-O-Balls contains eight plush balls, approximately 6cm in diameter, in four different colors.

Bark Avenue thinks every pet should be Microchipped

We loved this news article about Timothy the cat being reunited with his owners after traveling 1000km cross country thanks to his microchip.

Staff at Townsville's RSPCA are at a loss to explain how a two-year-old cat made its way from Brisbane to the north Queensland city, more than 1,000 kilometres away.

Nine months ago, the cat's owners reported 'Timothy' the cat missing from their Brisbane home but yesterday he was picked up as a stray in Townsville.

RSPCA spokeswoman Caroline Shemwell says his microchip let her know where he had come from.

"We get three stray cats in and one of them had a microchip - we looked it up," she said.

"Sure enough it was Timothy - we looked up the owners, called the owners and surprisingly they're in Brisbane.

"He's nice and clean and healthy, he's got a nice weight on him so he's quite calm and relaxed and in good spirits, good nick."

Ms Shemwell says she is not sure if the feline hitched a lift or walked the whole way to Townsville.

"It is a good place after all - I'd want to come back here too," she said.

Timothy will be flown back to his owners in Brisbane in the next couple of days.
The average cost for a microchip is around $45 - it's the best security you can buy for your pet. It's cheaper if you get it done at the same time your pet is desexed. Even if their collar comes off, their microchip can still be scanned. Most vets, council and animal welfare groups have scanners, so the chances of your pet coming back to you are fantastic with a microchip.

If you are looking to get a pet the Animal Welfare League and the RSPCA get all their pets desexed and microchipped before you buy them.

A reminder to treat your dogs right

Another great dog story forwarded to our inbox. Gypsy the pooch pound rescued her elderly neighbour. Made us all feel warm and fuzzy.

A dog that was itself rescued from the pound is being hailed a hero after coming to the aid of an elderly woman on the New South Wales north coast.

The Kyogle woman, known only as Meg, had broken her hip after falling and was lying helpless outside her home.

Gypsy, the staffie-cattle dog cross, went to investigate and took home one of Meg's slippers.

Her owner, Roger, discovered the situation when he went to return the slipper.

"You don't give animals credit - they obviously don't think like we do - but she worked this one out, that somebody needed help and this was the only way she could tell us how, by pinching a fluffy slipper," Roger said.

Meg was rushed to hospital and had to undergo surgery.

She spent the next seven weeks recovering in hospital and it was only this week she could finally say thank you to Gypsy.

"I had some lamb shanks and I said I'd wrap them up in a big bow and when we all got together again, which we did last Friday... and Roger gave her one of the shanks, she didn't eat it, she just took off to take it home to show Marian and waited for Roger to come and away they went, and I'm in tears by that stage," Meg said.

"I suppose it was such a happiness for me to know that she found me and it was just good to see her again.

"We all hope for those sorts of things to happen but there's a lesson there, to be kind to your neighbours' dog and to treat them right and to treat your own dogs correctly."

What great words of wisdom.

Original story from here.

Dogs feel like dancing!

Move over Doga - the new doggie trend is dancing!

Via our inbox - thanks for sending over the new article Oscar!

A group of Tasmanian dog-lovers is taking its first tentative steps in the art of dog dancing.

Official dog dancing competitions began in Australia last year, combining tricks and movement choreographed to music.

An interstate instructor has just finished the state's first dance classes at the Glenorchy showgrounds, in Hobart's northern suburbs.

Sue Cordwell says the discipline incorporates rhythm, teamwork and fun.

"Probably the basics of freestyle dog dancing is the leg weaving, the left-hand spin, the right-hand spin, the backing up," Ms Cordwell said.

Tasmanian dog lovers say the sport is growing in popularity.

Barb Duke from the Border Collie Club of Tasmania says the discipline is terrific for busy, intelligent - and hungry - dogs like border collies.

"The people love the music, and we truly believe that the dogs actually can feel the rhythm as well.

"They like the fact that the humans are relaxed and working with the rhythm, and they just love doings lots of tricks, and of course they get rewarded very well for doing it," she said.

Ms Duke says competing dogs are not allowed to wear costumes; fancy scarves or collars are the limit.

"Yeah, a bit of bling is good," she said, "but not too over the top, because there has to still be dignity for the dog."

Read the rest of the article here.

Fun Dog Pictures

We're a bit in love with this website. Some of the dog photos with captions are hilarious! If you've got a funny photo of your dog upload it to our facebook page - or shoot it over to us on email - shop@barkavenue.com.au - and we'll put it up for all to see!