The Sandy Paw Pet Spa

07/23/2024

Before and after on Winston the Airedale Terrier 🩷Groom by Deela 😍

07/23/2024

Miss Duchess came in for her touch up this morning 💋🐾🩷

06/10/2024

Knox- Shiba Inu and Soul- American Akita 🩷

06/08/2024

𝓗𝓾𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓥𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓽𝔂 ❤️

06/05/2024

The most beautiful Lilly 🩷

05/04/2024

This is why metal grey hound combs are such an important part of maintaining your poodle mix!

04/24/2024

We would love if you could take time out of your day to nominate us for Best of the Best! We love being here to pamper and enrich the loves of your pets 🩷

Know a local business in town that deserves special recognition? Nominate them in this year's Tampa Bay Best of the Best contest!

03/21/2024

Our phones have been on and off down! Please bare with us today!

03/10/2024

Please understand 🩷

03/10/2024

The most handsome Shiba Inu on the block! Knox is only one major away from his Champion title with the AKC 🩷

03/10/2024

Jules; where cute and fiesty come together 🐾💋 we love this girl, big personality and all! We are happy to be the only grooming salon in the area who hasn’t turned her away 🩷

03/07/2024

As it gets hotter out, we would like to share these photos in hopes that it helps pet owners understand that shaving your double coated dog (think labs, husky’s, goldens, German shepherds, etc.) will NOT HELP in making them cooler during the hotter humid climates as well as will NOT help in the shedding. Pertaining to shedding, all shaving the coat of your dog does is create smaller more needle like hairs to be left across your house and furniture. These small hairs can cause “hair splinters” in our own skin which can lead to infections under the skin if they are not removed.

As always, if anyone has any questions we are more than happy to help educate and steer you in the correct course of grooming for your pet!

𝓗𝓾𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓽𝔂 𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓥𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓽𝔂 ❤️

02/24/2024

Sweet Teddy 🥰 we fell in love with this little boy!

02/15/2024

We had the best babies in today 🩷
V***n and Mercy are the Shiba Inu
Soul is the American Akita

These are some of the best behaved dogs we have come into the salon 🥰

01/18/2024

We would like to preface this post with the fact the IAPEG and it's members love dogs. All dogs. Big dogs and small dogs. Fluffy dogs and sleek ones. We love pure breeds and we love mixed breeds.

The 'doodle craze' began after a breeder attempted a litter of mixed breed pups that were smart and hypoallergenic. No dog is truly hypoallergenic, but that's another discussion. He was in no way trying to create a new breed. News traveled quickly and before you know it, they were all the rage as pets. Very expensive pets. They became something of a status symbol as they wear price tags in the thousands and cost more than a sound, well developed, carefully chosen pure breed.

As professional groomers, we see the fallout with many of these pets and there are a few things you need to know:

1. Doodles are not a breed. They are (insert breed here) mixed with poodle. Golden doodle, labradoodle, maltipoo, pomapoo, yorkie poo, no matter the title, doodles are in fact mixed breed dogs. Being a pure breed of dog mean predictability...size, colors, skull shapes, temperament...any and all genetics are predictable for that specific breed. This is not possible with doodles.

2. There is a misconception that if you mix another breed with a poodle, you get the best of both breeds. This is simply not true. The truth is you have no idea what you will get. You are not getting the best of the breeds because responsible, ethical breeders do not allow their dogs to participate in mixed breeding.

3. As professional groomers, we hear misnomers from pet owners whose pup is a year old and has never been groomed. This is a nightmare for both the dog and the groomer. The truth is, any doodle will need professional grooming. They should start as early as possible just like any other dog. This seems to be a selling point for doodle breeders telling buyers they are low maintenance. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

4. Doodles often have very difficult coats to work with. Doodles with these coats will be more expensive. With most doodles you have a fur bearing breed (Labrador Retriever) mixed with a hair bearing breed (Poodle). This causes many doodles coats to be difficult with a mixture of the two. Some have fur as guard coat and hair as undercoat and some have hair as a guard coat with fur as the undercoat. Either way, more work and time means your professional groomer must be properly compensated or it will lead to number five.

5. There are many professional groomers who are simply not accepting doodles as clients anymore. Misinformed owners are price shocked when they've been lied to by a breeder. Your professional groomer is tired of arguing and explaining just to be properly compensated when there are so many other clients who know what to expect and respect our professional practices.
Because doodles are not the best representatives of their breeds they are often not the most well behaved pets either. Many are high strung, a bit neurotic, and/or have some type of behavior problem.

If you do in fact choose to own a doodle, speak with your professional groomer beforehand so you'll know what to expect. And please respect your professional groomers advice. Their job is to keep your pet on a regular schedule. Depending on the coat...remember these are mixed breed dogs and therefore not predictable before birth...most will need a schedule of 4-6 weeks.

12/29/2023

We hope everyone had a good holiday! With the new year approaching we would like to take this time to let everyone know how much we truly appreciate each one of our clients (furry and human) you are the reason we can continue to be here providing the care we do 🩷🐶🐾

As always we are trying our very best to stay fairly priced and provide the excellent quality we do. As we go into this new year, there will be some price adjusting, we never like to disappoint and know some are on fixed incomes. If you any questions or concerns please don’t hesitate to ask us how we can help! We are here for not only the pets but you the pet parents as well. We know times are tough financially for everyone, we will always make sure our pricing is fair to the service.

We will also be announcing new dates for doodle maintenance seminars for the year! Please contact Lyric Sienna for more information on those dates and packages!

Please have a safe and fun new year! We can’t wait to see you all in 2024 for another dog and cat filled year! 🩷🐶🐾🐱

11/30/2023

Quinn the Samoyed 🩷

07/28/2023

Cooper 🩷
Groom done by Hailee Wilson

07/02/2023

We always like to educate before proceeding with owner request like this. While we do this for you, we like you to understand the risk associated with shaving double coated dogs.

06/28/2023

Can we just take a second to appreciate Oliver?❤️❤️🐈

06/01/2023

Good evening lovely friends! Welcome to summertime!!
As a friendly reminder we are very limited on our kennel space at the salon and always ask your pet is picked up in a timely manner (up to 1 hour from completion.) We are able to accommodate to the best of our abilities for more time by choosing an hourly day care option of up to 4 hours maximum. Our hourly day care is $10 an hour. As always we take into account emergency situations, previously made arrangements, etc.
The time limit is due to our inability to take your pets out to the bathroom due to being on busy Alt 19. We would rather not risk any type of accidents being so close to the road and chose to leave it up to the pet parent to handle their pet outside of our lobby.
We have a few pinned post for anyone that is new and wants to review our policies and procedures 🐾

05/27/2023

Forever loving Stella 💗

05/20/2023

‘Jumpy’ being universal term and equally as hilarious 😂💛We’ve all been here a few times 😭

05/19/2023

Finished product! Elle is Amazing!
Dogs from left to right
Dexter
Grady
Aaliyah
Beast
Murphy
Ox
Milo
Ruby
Piper the lifeguard
💗
Knox chasing his favorite butterfly 🦋

05/19/2023

After the overwhelming amazing response we got from our new mural, we have decided to make it a community project! This is open to everyone, clients or not ☺️ we will fill the whole salon walls with dogs if we have to! Support an amazing local artist and have your dog immortalized in crystal beach forever 💗

Reference photos and name of the dog(s) can be sent to us here on Facebook messenger or emailed to [email protected]
Payment can be made by card(in salon or over the phone) or cash

05/03/2023

Our very talented stylist assistant Elle has began her mural at the shop! we are so blessed to have an amazing artist to bring the shop to life even more 💗 she is available for commissioned artwork of your pets and for murals.

04/21/2023

Never seen anything more accurate actually 🤣🤣🤣

04/12/2023

Maverick sporting his cute tie after his groom 🐶🐾❤️

04/07/2023

Piper 💗

04/07/2023

The cutest old man around ❤️
Per his mom his nicknames are as follows:
Mr.Beast
Bubba
and Street Fighter 😂💗
We love you max!