The Barker Shop

10/17/2026

🐈‍⬛💜 WELL… THE CAT'S OUT OF THE BAG! 👀

The public hearing sign is officially in the ground, the neighborhood notices have been mailed, and I think it's finally time to show you where we're hoping to bring Luxe Purr Lounge! 🔑🐾

📍 3046–3054 Hobson Road, Woodridge, IL!

Yep… THIS is the building we're hoping to transform into your future favorite place for cats, coffee, and community! ☕️🐈‍⬛

We've signed the lease, and our next big milestone is receiving special-use approval from the Village of Woodridge.

📅 Public Hearing: November 2 at 7 PM

Nothing is fully approved just yet, but we're one BIG step closer!

Can you picture Luxe Purr here?! 💜

10/16/2026

Exciting news on the Cat Cafe 🐈‍⬛💜 WE SIGNED THE LEASE!!! 🔑🎉

Follow & Share Luxe Purr Lounge if you haven't already!

After months of searching, planning, negotiating, and jumping through approximately 47,000 hoops… 😂

Luxe Purr Lounge has found its future home on HOBSON ROAD in WOODRIDGE, IL! 📍☕️🐾

Nearly 5,500 square feet of cats, coffee, and endless possibilities!

And here's a little sneak peek at what we're envisioning for our storefront! 👀💜

We're still awaiting special-use approval from the Village of Woodridge, but this is one HUGE step closer to making Luxe Purr a reality!

IT'S REALLY HAPPENING!!! 🐈‍⬛💜

Conceptual rendering — final design subject to change.

10/05/2026

🍂🐾 Growing your dog’s coat out for winter? Don’t skip the groom completely!

We hear it every fall:
“It’s getting cold, so I’m going to let their hair grow out.”

And that’s totally fine! The problem is what can happen while that coat is growing.

Longer coats + wet fall weather + eventually snow, sweaters and winter gear = a much higher chance of matting.

And once a coat becomes severely matted, there may not be enough coat left to safely brush out or save. That’s how we end up having to shave dogs short right in the middle of freezing winter weather — exactly what everyone was trying to avoid! 🥶

✂️ That’s where a Bath & Tidy comes in.

A Bath & Tidy is the perfect maintenance appointment while you’re growing out your dog’s coat. We can:

🐾 Thoroughly bathe, dry & brush out the coat
🐾 Remove loose/dead coat before it tangles
🐾 Clean up the face, feet & sanitary areas
🐾 Catch knots and tangles before they turn into mats
🐾 Keep that longer winter coat clean, comfortable and manageable

You don’t have to choose between a full haircut and skipping grooming altogether.

Let the coat grow — just maintain it while it does. 💜

📅 Book your dog’s Bath & Tidy at The Barker Shop and help keep that fluffy winter coat fluffy!

09/28/2026

🐾 We have some pretty exciting news to share from The Barker Shop family! 💜

Many of you know that we've been working behind the scenes on a completely new adventure — Luxe Purr Lounge, an upscale cat lounge + café featuring adoptable cats. 🐱☕️

And we've officially reached a BIG milestone…

📍 Luxe Purr is headed to WOODRIDGE!

We've taken a major step forward on a potential location right off I-355 and are now working through the final lease process and Village approvals.

The Barker Shop isn't going anywhere! 🐶💜 This is a completely separate business, and we're incredibly excited to bring everything we've learned from nearly two decades of serving local pet families into something brand new — this time for the cats. 🐱

We're keeping the exact location under wraps until everything is finalized, but we'll be sharing plenty more as Luxe Purr starts coming to life.

If you want to follow the journey from plans ➡️ construction ➡️ cats ➡️ opening day, make sure you're following Luxe Purr Lounge! 💜🐾

08/29/2026

🐈‍⬛💜 **WE HIT 300! SO LET’S DO OUR FIRST GIVEAWAY!** 💜🐈‍⬛

Well… that happened fast. 😂

Yesterday I was watching us get closer and closer to 300 followers, and this morning I woke up to **305 of you here!**

The response to Luxe Purr Lounge has been incredible, especially considering **we haven’t even opened our doors yet!**

So to celebrate our first 300, I’m giving away some of our very first Luxe Purr merch!

👕 **THREE WINNERS will each receive a Luxe Purr Lounge “Future Regular” shirt!**

And honestly, I can’t think of a more appropriate shirt for the people who are here following along this early. You really ARE our Future Regulars. 💜

**HOW TO ENTER:**

💜 Follow the Luxe Purr Lounge page

🐾 Like this post

🐈‍⬛ Comment below and tell me **who you’re bringing with you on your first visit to Luxe Purr!**

✨ **WANT A BONUS ENTRY?**

Invite your cat-loving friends to follow Luxe Purr Lounge! Have anyone you invite comment and tag **“[YOUR NAME] sent me!”** after they follow so I know who gets the bonus entry.

That’s it!

🎉 **THREE winners will be randomly selected on Sunday, Sept 6.**

Thank you to everyone who has followed, commented, shared our excitement and told your friends about Luxe Purr. Seeing this community start to grow before we even have a home to invite you into has been pretty amazing.

There is SO much happening behind the scenes right now, and I can’t wait until I can finally share more of it with you.

Here’s to our first 300 **Future Regulars.** 🐈‍⬛☕️💜

*No purchase necessary. This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Facebook.*

08/26/2026

Okay Barker Shop family… the secret is officially getting harder to keep. 👀💜🐾
We’ve been working behind the scenes on something completely new…
🐈 Adoptable cats
☕ Coffee & café treats
💜 An incredible social lounge
🐾 And a whole new way to help animals find their families.
Luxe Purr Lounge is coming. And BIG things are happening behind the scenes right now. 🤫
If you haven’t followed yet, now’s the time — because we cannot WAIT to start sharing what’s next. 👀🐈‍⬛
Barker Shop family ➡️ meet Luxe Purr Lounge. 💜

08/25/2026

🐾💜 Barker Shop family — have you followed Luxe Purr Lounge yet?! 🐈‍⬛☕

We’ve been working on something pretty special behind the scenes, and BIG things are happening! 👀

Luxe Purr Lounge is our upcoming upscale cat café, coffee bar & social lounge featuring adoptable cats looking for their forever homes. 💜

There’s still plenty we can’t share quite yet… but we are making progress, building connections, and getting closer to bringing this vision to life.

We seriously cannot wait to start sharing some of the updates that are coming. 🤐🐾

If you haven’t already, head over and follow Luxe Purr Lounge so you can watch it all come together from the very beginning!

And Barker Shop friends… you might want to be able to say “I was following before they even had a building.” 😂💜

🐕 The Barker Shop ➡️ 🐈 Luxe Purr Lounge

Stay tuned. Big things are coming. 👀💜

08/20/2026

WE WANT TO MEET YOUR CATS. 💜

We've been talking a lot about our future cats… now we want to meet yours. 🐈‍⬛💜
Drop a photo of your cat in the comments and tell us their name + one thing we absolutely need to know about them. 😂

We'll go first in the comments. 🐾

WE WANT TO MEET YOUR CATS. 💜

We've been talking a lot about our future cats… now we want to meet yours. 🐈‍⬛💜

Drop a photo of your cat in the comments and tell us their name + one thing we absolutely need to know about them. 😂

We'll go first in the comments. 🐾

08/19/2026

🐾💜 Somewhere right now, your cat may be waiting for you.

When we started dreaming about Luxe Purr Lounge , it was never just about creating a beautiful place to spend time with cats.

It was about creating a place where adoptable cats get the chance to be seen.

A place to feel safe. To be loved. To make a connection with someone who walked in just to visit… and walked out having found their new best friend. 🐈‍⬛

Because sometimes you don’t choose the cat…

the cat chooses you. 💜

That’s the heart behind Luxe Purr Lounge.

📍 Coming to Chicago’s Western & Southwest Suburbs.

08/17/2026