Barking Lot

Love Barking Lot!!! Very friendly and comfy environment! My Yoshi came home so happy! Lol!
We had a terrible experience at PetsMart (Trinity).Dropped off my Yoshi… And hour later he was in surgery. Slashed his face underneath his eye. The groomer never even came out to apologize. Inexperienced groomer could have damaged my dog for life.
Due to his injury Yoshi couldn’t be touched by another groomer for several weeks. His hair grew matted and Barking Lot took real good care of him! So thank you Barking Lot!!!

A decent cut — however, the most expensive I have found in Stockton. I have now found a more affordable groomer off of Hammer Lane. Due to the price that is more than doubled at Barking Lot, I won’t be going back. The groomer said my dog had matted hair and charged $ 119. With an even greater amount of matted hair, I took the dog to the groomer off of Hammer Lane and paid $ 58. Crazy, but true.

I took my toy poodle to barking lot for years and not even once had any complaints! She’s passed now but ready for a new poodle and believe I’ll be returning

I called to make an appointment for my cat because it is conveniently located near me. The woman on the phone had booked me for the following Saturday at noon for me to take my Merlin in. So when that Saturday rolls around I call to confirm the time the lady that answered confirmed the time and then said the girl who grooms cats wasn’t in. I thought it to be more than a litte rude and unprofessional to not give me (&other clients that might of had an appointment) a call informing me that the girl wasn’t going to be in. Whoever I spoke with was not aplogitic and didn’t seem at all concerned that the business had inconvenienced me.

After a long time of looking elsewhere i returned to the Barking Lot ! Patty still teaches her staff good groomer habits and took great care of my 3 dogs and got them in and out in 4 hrs. Will stick with them for my kids.

I’ve taken a dog and both my cats in for baths and I’m always really impressed with how they handle my furry friends. Unfortunately no reviews on dog hair styling here sorry folks! Just baths.
I went in there an anxious mess after having a cat-​astrophe trying to get my feline friends in proper transport for a bath but in their care they said they were so well behaved! Animals really are a reflection of the energy around them. Also they got this pesky dreaded ball of fur out of my sweet long haired calico’s chest which I’m super grateful for as I’m still new to caring for long haired cats. My cats had never been groomed so they came back like new cats!
With that said Patti is amazingly compassionate and she knows what she’s doing. I know a true animal lover when I meet one! They made time for my cats despite their busy schedule and helped me out so much (with a professional phone demeaner)! When all the Muddy Paw did was snap at me that they were busy.
I love this place and want to say thanks for being compassionate both to animals and the humans who enter your business in desperate need of your help!

They did so good with my ritzy! I wanted the lion cut and they did an awesome job on her!
Thank you ladies!

They’re always really busy here. We’ve been bring our little Pug and Pekingese mix for her groom for over a year. The price is fair for her groom. It does take a long time (usually drop of her off around 11am) to complete her groom, but Roxie always come home happy.
Today, on my drive to pick Roxie up, my 11 month old fell asleep in the car. Someone brought Roxie out to my car for me! That was an incredible gesture that didn’t have to happen. I’m beyond appreciative!

My picture speaks for itself for say what ever ridiculous story you want. Its clear im not the only upset pet owner from your business.
Goodluck.
You are so ridiculous especially as an owner. I have taken my dog there more than teice. And each visit was great. The reason why I stopped in between time was because my husband was grooming him and now that he has two jobs he is unable. So the fact that me not grooming him just because i havent taken him with you is incorrect. Dont assume. And i in fact am a great owner who actually takes my dog everywhere with me. MY DOG is always welcomed wherever i take him. because he is a great lovable dog. My only mistake was making him stay when he didnt want to staywith you guys. If i was neglectful, i would not be pissed at the fact that my dog came back with burns. You should really see where we all are coming from and see our concern instead of arguing back. Business tip 101.

I will never come back to this place! I brought my dog here today and when i got there they are doing some renovations cuz they move a couple doors down. So i didnt care about it. After 3 hrs had passed they called me and said my dog is ready for pick up and that it will cost $ 95!!! So i thought i heard wrong and came to pick up my dog and they said that its $ 95. So i asked why. They said because he was matted all around and that they took long to groom him. Keep in mind i have a Shih-​tzu so if he wasnt that matted he would only cost $ 45! So u mean to tell me to cut my dogs hair cuz he was matted the extra charge was $ 50? I Wasnt told that he would cost double the price when i dropped him off, otherwise i would have drove to san jose and went to my other groomer. ALSO… Its not like they combed my dogs hair to remove the matted area… THEY COMPLETELY SHAVED HIM DOWN. SOMETHING I COULD HAVE DONE MYSELF!!! NEVER IN MY WHOLE LIFE I HAD TO PAY MORE THAN DOUBLE ON A DOG GROOMING EVEN IF HE WAS MATTED. I just moved here from SAN JOSE and my normal groomer doesnt even charge me half of that! I picked this groomer because my sister used to come here. So i thought i’d give it a try. But now i regret it so much and should have just went somewhere else. I feel like they charged me this much because their doing renovations and need the extra money they can get from people! Bad customer service! Didnt even do a good job on my dogs hair cut and when i put my dog in my car he was shaking as if he was so traumatized of what just happened to him. If only i can give negative stars i would! This place doesnt deserve a 1 star!

I adopted my dog from spca about 8 years ago. His first grooming sessions started at barking lot on miracle mile. I was devastated when they moved up north of Stockton because it was quite far from where I lived. I recently moved north of Stockton and decided to go back. I was pretty disappointed because his summer cut wasn’t smooth and his neck to head cut wasn’t faded well. You can see the drastic cut. In comparison to pet smart where he had been going because it was closer did a much better job. It might have been because it was a rush job, but like any paying customer my dog should have gotten an awesome cut and should be treated well. Unfortunately it didn’t happen this time around. Wondering what happend!!!

Yeah this place is complete crap! Don’t tell me I’m neglecting my dog or that I should brush him myself. If I was neglecting him I wouldn’t be spending all this money on him to get him groomed? Haha better luck next time on your part. You guys are horrible. If they had 0 stars you’d get that. Isn’t it your job to groom? So why are you being lazy? Lol

We came here a couple months back with a groupon and got our Shihtzu groomed. She has a ton of hair and is a fairly sensitive dog. My wife liked the lady doing the grooming and she felt pretty comfortable.
Our dog Tauntaun was done in about 2 hours. She was cut, washed, and clipped. She looked good and even without the groupon the price would have been a little under PetSmart. So we’ll come back again even without the groupon.
I’d recommend coming here.

The fact that your fighting with me on Unilocal is hilarious to me, there was guy there when i went that helped us out whether he was a volunteer or he used to work here but either way whats the point of writing on Unilocal about everyones experience if you cant take criticism and your fighting with everyone about their experiences and we are the customers who are paying and I’m not even a groomer i was an actual customers i will just leave it at that.

Had posted my review, but someone deleted it. If owners are able to delete bad reviews, what good is Unilocal?Original review is below.
UPDATE: Owner added comment about their concern is for the dogs so that might take priority. HOWEVER, this was in the morning and there were no other dogs for them to work on, so they should have given us their full attention, but they seemed to care about anything other than their customers. Do not take your dog to this place!
Terrible customer service! We didn’t even want to leave our dogs there so took them to another salon! First girl at the counter never smiled and didn’t even say anything when we walked in. After we said Hello, she reluctantly replied hello, with no enthusiasm and continued to look at something as if we weren’t there, and then just walked to the back. Very rude, and didn’t even ask what we were there for or anything, and we had an appt at that time.
After a few minutes, this second person comes up, looking bored and totally un-​interested in her job and asked us basic questions, not apologizing for the other woman’s behavior, and seeming like she didn’t want to be there as well. We even had paid for a Groupon, but decided we’d rather have to eat the cost then to trust our dogs with them. This happened at 9 am on Feb 28^th. Worst customer service we ever encountered at a grooming salon! Owner needs to seriously upgrade her employees’ customer service skills or let them go and find better people.

my boyfriend took the dog for a groom because shes so matted and the owner of the store said she looks so horrible and they told my boyfriend he should NOT give my dog back to me.
how dare you telling me how to raise my dog. you can judge me by just looking to the dogs matted hair.
you’re so unprofessional, you can tell your customers those kind of stuff.
I work with cancer people and i told tell my patient why he or she smoking 50sticks a day because of her lung cancer.
you should know your limits. you should have just told him to get her groomed every month and that’s it.
I DON’T PAY YOU MONEY TO GET YOUR EMOTIONAL SIDE COMMENTS.
you should know that person you’re accusing a bad dog owner just rescued that dog because the pound is gonna put her down if no one adopts her.
I’m a returning customer, at first you did a great job and i know you’re gonna tell me that you can’t find me in your system. its because you changed your whole system. how could you just swap a new computer system without backing up your old clients.
i don’t tell you how to run your business. so your job is to groom my dog.
and the owner of barking lot said that she doesn’t work for those kind of people.
–well ma’am there’s like 50 more stores in the area that will groom my dog better.
so forgive me if my dog is still alive coz i just saved her. she should be dead a year ago if i didn’t found her.
i feed her good food and big home and backyard to run. and I have a super busy schedule.
yeah my dogs name is sparky. look that up. and were not coming back there anymore and i will tell my 6 more friends to not go there. super unprofessional.
i guess those certificate you earned doesn’t deserve you at all.

I came in three days ahead of time to see what would be the estimated cost of bathing my Siberian Husky, Bandit. The man that spoke with me said it would be $ 50 which I guess was reasonable. So, me and my mon planned to bring Bandit in Saturday early in the morning but, we woke up late. Also, Knowing that the Shop closes at 5pm we basically, lost hope but, we decided to call anyways. So we called and that same man that spoke with me the other day. remembered me and told me that he would make room for my Dog. (just cause he ADORES huskies)
We Brought in Bandit at 330pm and picked him up at 615pm. It was Such Great Service and my Dog Loved them and They Loved Him. They even gave him a Halloween inspired Bandana which I thought was Cute. Haha
The staff was so Kind I was flattered of how they adored our Husky. They were amazed to see my dog and were even upset to see him leave lol. I would Totally recommend this Place and always make sure to call because u never know what might Happen.
For the Overall Appearance of my Husky: He wasn’t Completely Dry but, I don’t blame em Huskies have a large amount of fur and it takes me hours just to dry him off with a regular Dryer. So yea he was Damp but BOY was he Fluffy and he smelled Yummy! Haha So i can’t really criticize them. They only had 2hours of work and really for a Husky I’d say it takes a Days work. So, They did wonders for my Boy. Now He is no longer stinky and he became whiter than ever. They even took out Alot of his Blowing Coat which is a NightMare during shedding season so my Family was HAPPY with that.
Also, I’m actually coming back again Monday To bring in my Golden Retriever Mix. THE BARKING LOT is highly Recommended. :) oh and for new customers you get a $ 10 coupon so that $ 50 bath turned into a $ 40 bath! So worth it!:D
I Hoped this Helps!:)

Great place! My two doggies are so happy when I pick them up. They cut the fur the way I ask. They are friendly and professional.

Best dog grooming place I’ve found in Stockton! They didn’t judge me too much for how flea-​ridden my dogs were, so that gets bonus points. They also double bathed them and made sure all the fleas were gone, and the dogs were actually happy when we picked them up! Usually they are sad and dejected haha.
The cut was good too, they look very nice and have cute little bandanas on.
We will definitely go back!

Great staff, good prices and always done at a very timely matter… my doggy always comes home a happy camper ;)