It’s no coincidence the first three letters of the word bark are bar. At least not at Paws For a Beer, Bellingham’s dog bar. “No one said I had a bad idea. So I just kinda kept going with it,” says co-founder Rylan Schoen.

He and his wife Amy adopted a black lab they named Crosby. “A six-week-old runt of the litter…we thought he’d be pretty simple but turned out he was very challenging,” Amy says. Rylan had to take Crosby to the dog park three or four times a day. “We had one dog who was crazy and needed a place to get that crazy out!”

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