Site Development

From the very start, Barkingham's 2+-acre site has been planned and developed as a pet boarding, grooming and training center. Everything has been arranged for the comfort and convenience of our guests and their people, from the convenient and spacious entry, to the extensive exercise runs.

	Some of the Decor In the Lobby of the Palace

Site development work included extensive ground level build-up and drainage for the training fields and dog runs, to make these areas serviceable even after bad weather conditions.

The training fields are regulation size and are separated from the kennel area for easy, direct customer access.

The training fields have floodlights for our nighttime training courses.

Video surveillance and motion sensors will provide total security.

Our Expansion - May, 2009

We completed 7 new Luxury Suites and 20 new kennel enclosures in an expansion that also includes an outside-access rest room for our training course folks to use in the evenings. We added two murals (The Pond, shown below, and The Shore) on the walls opposite the new suites. These murals were painted for us by Al Rao, famous for decorating local schools and several walls in Cocoa Village.
____The Pond (by Al Rao) graces the inner wall across from the London Suites in our new expansion.____

The Main Building

	The employee lounge also serves food for the resident dogs.

Barkingham's large, business building includes space for four grooming stations, and has eight(8) large, dog suites; a large cattery; retail sales displays, and an employee lounge area.

The grooming area has a separate Hydrosurge(TM) tub room, a drying room and a grooming room.

There is an apartment in the Main Building for the Resident Manager, who is a kennel technician trained in animal behavior, and in the operations of Barkingham. The RM sees to the security of the building, grounds and animals during the hours when the office is closed.

	Laying the Tiles

The Kennel Building
Barkingham's kennel building is bright and airy, built to ABKA standards, air conditioned for the summer and heated in the winter. All the kennels are indoors, and have privacy sidewalls and impervious, odor-resistant construction.

Very large exercise runs adjacent to the building provide adequate space for all the dogs to get lots of exercise during the day, including optional, extra play-time sessions.

	The training fields are set.

Training Fields
We have constructed AKC Trial-standard obedience training fields and a 12,000 sq. ft. Agility field, on the south side of the property, These fenced-in, grassy areas are graded and have drainage, to provide the best possible conditions during wet periods. The fields are being used on a multi-purpose basis, for obedience and for agility training. Complete courses with equipment appropriate for Standard Agility and for Jumpers With Weaves are used for training and can be rented (to qualified users) for practice.