Barks 'n' Bubbles Pet Store Bray & Greystones

13/12/2025

Lovely customers take note 📝 and stock up on all the essentials! 🐶🐱🐾

We will be closed for a Christmas break from the 24th at 1pm until the 2nd of January at 10am 🎄🧑‍🎄♥️

04/12/2025

Gorgeous Mel🐾🐩🤎

Mel, a Chinese Crested Powderpuff, gets her face shaved short as part of her groom. She used to find this process so difficult & stressful, and on our advice her wonderful owners have been working with her at home, getting her used to the sensations using an electric toothbrush. She will now rest her head in your hands to have her face clipped 🤩✨

Last month marked 11 years since our salon opened when it was just 'Sophie's Grooming Salon'.
So much has changed over the years & we now have an amazing team, but one thing that has never changed is the importance of building a relationship with you & your doggies, and their wellbeing remaining the centre of all we do. 🤍✨🥰

01/12/2025

Have you seen how the K9 Connectable range works in real time? They are brilliant 😍

01/12/2025

Update -- Reuinted ♥️
Doggie found on Quinsborough Road, Bray.

Safe with us, please share & contact if you know the owner. Will bring to bet to check for chip. 🐾

27/11/2025

11/11/2025

We are fully booked for pampering for the rest of this year ♥️🛁✂️

If you are a regular client, have not booked & would like to go on a cancellation list for November or December please contact us here or on 0872670777.

Taking appointments for January 2026 now. 💫

25/10/2025

Halloween Happiness 🧡🌟
.we know Halloween can be an awful time for animals, & we want to make that a little lighter in any way we can, we have donation boxes in both our stores which you can add to if you wish & we will drop them to our local animal shelter next week in time for Halloween.

23/10/2025

"...but dogs give their offspring corrections, so why can't we?"

This is one of the most baffling arguments to punishment based training I've heard.

Aside from the fact we aren't dog mums let's look even further at this argument.

Dogs react in the moment. They may tell their offspring off for trying to grab their food, because their survival instinct says they need it. They may tell their offspring off for biting too hard in play, because it is hurting them. What they aren't doing is telling their offspring off for not walking nicely on a lead, or some other complex training need that we as humans have. They aren't putting their offspring in a situation they know they will struggle (face to face with another dog) and preparing to "correct" them if they show fear. They're not TRAINING their puppies to be good puppies for their new homes. They're just reacting and responding to what is in front of them.

Plus, mum dogs can't use the same positive reinforcement methods we can. They can't carry a bag of treats in their mouths and give them a treat every time they do something great. They don't have those capabilities. But we do. We have a lot more intelligent gadgets at our disposal and maybe if mum dogs had opposable thumbs to open up a treat bag and dish them out, they would? That's a strange visualisation 😆

Point is, we aren't living in the moment. We aren't afraid our dogs are taking our food away. We aren't being physically hurt when our dog barks. So comparing what we do with what mum dogs do is unfair comparisons. Dogs also sniff each others bums to say hi but I don't see anyone advocating that we do that to make friends with our dogs in our lives? Again, a strange visualisation 🤪 What we are trying to achieve is complex behaviour change or meaningless (to the dog) training for the most part.

Dogs deserve the right to be treated with respect when teaching them often very complex things that WE want them to do to make life easier on US. We have the brains to plan, execute complex scenarios, and break things down into manageable chunks. Nothing we are teaching needs to be as immediate as a dog mum protecting their food. We can do better than using their limited choices as an excuse to hurt dogs 🐾💜

20/10/2025

18/10/2025

Big Ollie found the best place to nap - in the Greystones store 🤣🥹💤🐾

Hope your weekend is as chilled as this gorgeous boy ♥️

25/08/2025

Lovely to hear of little Tania's recovery. She came to us with worrying bloods showing high BUN and creatinine (protein, essentially) and phosphorus. Kidney disease and pancreatitis was the diagnosis.

Low protein and phosphorus prescription kibble and meds was the recommendation, upon which the dog was not improving. In fact, I thing such a course of action would likely fuel a slow and steady deterioration of her condition.

We advised the client to explore (with her vet) a more suitable diet containing fresh meats, some organ content, a fresh egg, a little steamed veg and a herbal kidney/liver tonic, and keep on eye the bloods as we go.

Just a few weeks later - PRESTO - her bloods are now returning to normal.

"She loves her new food and is doing so good on your recommendations!!"

Life-changing for this little dog and her owner but there was absolutely no doubt in my mind that a change in diet was going to help her to some degree. Zero.

But how was it possible her blood protein and phosphorus levels FELL when her new diet contains lots MORE protein and natural phosphorus ??? 🤔

If you have a dog in such a situation and they're still on high-carb kibble, or if you're a vet with a clinic full of such dogs, and you don't understand how such a thing is possible then please, for the sake of the dog, engage the services of a canine nutritionist, folks. There's so much you can do.

Real, biologically appropriate food might not fix everything but it's most definitely the first place to start with a chronically ill patient, regardless of the disease.

24/08/2025

We had so much fun at the Harvest Festival today meeting so many gorgeous dogs and lovely people! 🥰♥️🐾🍂

Thank you all who took part and added to the fun. A great day & community - thank you
Don’t forget to tag us in your pictures from today to be in with a chance to win a natural treat hamper 🥰🦴♥️