Our Story

One dog. One owner.A lot of spilled water.

It started in the summer of 2023.

A sticky July afternoon. A neighborhood walk that turned into an accidental three-mile detour. Me, my dog Biscuit, and a 32oz water bottle I had absolutely no plan for.

Biscuit is a four-year-old golden retriever mix. Scrappy, stubborn, and built like she has somewhere important to be at all times. She was panting hard. I was sweating through my shirt. And when I finally stopped to give her water — really stopped, dug through my bag, unscrewed the cap, tried to pour into my own hand like some kind of idiot — she lapped up about three drops and the rest soaked into the pavement.

She looked at me like I'd personally let her down.

She wasn't wrong.
How we got better

There had to be a better way.There wasn't.

I went home and searched for every dog water bottle on the market. What I found was:

A plastic squeeze dispenser that tasted like plastic after two uses. A silicone cup screwed onto a Nalgene that leaked in my bag. A collapsible bowl for $4 that smelled like wet dog within a week — even when it was dry.

Nothing kept water cold. Nothing was actually easy to use with one hand while holding a leash with the other. Nothing felt like it was made for a real walk by a real person with a real dog.

So I decided to make it myself.

Our Mission

Make every walk better. Give back where it counts.

Biscuit wasn't always mine.

She came from a shelter two hours away. Underfed, undersocialized, and somehow still the most trusting dog I'd ever met. Someone gave up on her. A shelter didn't. And because of that — I have the best walking partner I've ever had.

That matters to us.

A portion of every Barkbly™ order goes directly to no-kill shelters and rescues working to find good homes for good dogs. Because every dog deserves a walk with cold water. And every dog deserves a person who shows up for them.