At Barkaritaville Pet Resort, the health and happiness of every pet is our top priority, which is why we want to share with you some of the precautions WE take to keep pets healthy and happy throughout the year. Then, check out what YOU can do, too! What We Do We clean and disinfect the… Read more »

As we wrote about in “Summer Heat Safety for Dogs,” keeping your pups cool is crucial during this relentless Texas heat. If you and your dogs are spending much of your together time in the cool of air conditioning and everyone is getting a wee bit bored, we have some simple and fun indoor ideas… Read more »

Thanks to noisy fireworks, more pets reportedly go missing around the Fourth of July than any other time of the year. Even though fireworks are notoriously frightening for our furry friends, many folks cannot resist the allure of loud, colorful displays exploding in the sky. But if you put yourself in your pet’s position for… Read more »

Everything is bigger in Texas, including hurricane season. In a ranking of which states have the most hurricanes, Texas comes in at number two, after Florida. Make sure you’re prepared to not only care for yourself, but your pets as well, should disaster strike. Texas hurricane season June 1 is the start of hurricane season… Read more »

May 2022 kicked off summer in Texas with a blistering bang. The sweltering heat knocked six power plants offline over a month before the official first day of summer. Keeping the a/c running across the state may be well beyond your control but you can keep your pets safe in the Texas heat with this… Read more »

Sponsored by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), National Pet Dental Health Month is recognized every February, but your pet’s teeth matter every day. Sure, it can feel like a chore sometimes, but we have the luxury of being able to brush our teeth and schedule dental appointments on a regular basis. But for our… Read more »

Remember your first time spending the night away from your parents at a new place? Maybe you stayed at a summer camp lodge or a choir trip hotel. Were you nervous? Excited? Thankfully, your parents were able to explain to you where you were going and when you would see them again. Pets, however, don’t… Read more »

Sponsored by Pet Acoustics, Pet Hearing Awareness Week is September 20-24, 2021. Pet Acoustics makes music scientifically designed to naturally soothe stress behaviors and it’s the music we play every day throughout Barkaritaville Pet Resort. We’re proud to celebrate pet hearing every day of every week! About Pet Acoustics at Barkaritaville Pet Resort Pet Acoustics… Read more »

Pet boarding and daycare facilities across Texas and the U.S. witnessed a jaw dropping number of kennel cough outbreaks this summer. Seasoned veterans of the pet care industry report having never witnessed anything like it before. As the summer boarding season begins to wind down, experts are weighing in on what could have triggered so… Read more »

It’s been a surprisingly mild Texas summer. Even as August rolled in, temperatures have stayed in the 90s, with nary a triple digit day in sight. But just because it’s cooler than normal for the two-leggeds, the furry four-leggeds can still be at risk. For the experienced Texans who have weathered many days in a… Read more »