Peace Love Paws

12/10/2024

Today we had a soft opening for daycare program!! 😍 Our salon staff brought their dogs for it. 🫶🏻 I’d be willing to bet Gucci was the cutest in attendance. 🥰 Make sure to reserve your spot with Audra before her schedule fills up!! ✌🏻❤️🐾

11/27/2024

I wasn’t joking 👌🏻🤣✌🏻❤️🐾

11/26/2024

I just got this neat yellow chair. It and dogs ON it are all you’re gonna get from now on. 👌🏻😁✌🏻❤️🐾

11/24/2024

I. LOVE. THIS. COLOR. 🫨 …and the new space!! 😱 …and this guy! 🥰 Finishing up some things and moving everyone into our second location this weekend! 💃 🪩 🕺 ✌🏻❤️🐾

11/18/2024

The greatest and hardest lesson you’ll probably ever learn is when to let go. 🥺

Due to unfortunate messaging over the years, coupled with a lack of knowledge, and compounded by the human tendency for denial/delusion, what should be obvious and commonly accepted is anything but.

A few of the messages:
-There are no bad dogs, only bad owners. Wrong.
-Any dog can be “fixed” if you’ll get your energy right. Wrong.
-Every dog should be saved. Wrong.

The knowledge gap:
-We have a chaotic house, with lots of kids running all over, and we adopted a highly nervous but “sweet” herding breed. Bad.
-My dog challenges everyone in our family, and has bitten us all, but is great with my trainer. Bad.
-We got a guarding/working breed so it can protect the family, even though we’ve never had a dog before. Bad.

A bit of denial:
-He only bites us when we kiss/dance/move too fast/leave the house/vacuum because he had a traumatic early life. Delusion.
-She’s guards her spot on the couch, her toys, and her food, and will bite us if we get too close, but it’s only because she never had things of her own before. Delusion.
-He always growls at or bites my husband, but I’m sure he was abused by a man before I adopted him. Delusion.

Can people improve? Absolutely. Can dogs improve? Almost always. Does that mean that all fits can be made healthy and happy, or are wise? Nope. People and dogs come in many flavors, and many of these flavors work wonderfully well together, some work with certain other flavors, and some (human and dog) don’t work well at all. It’s a sad reality, but a reality nonetheless. We should be choosing the dogs we share our lives with based on an honest and informed assessment of who we are, what our lives look like, and what dog—both breed and individual personality—fits that reality best.

Ignore the silly messages, do your homework, and lose the denial.

Fairytales in dog land often end up as nightmares.

10/17/2024

Audra is a good friend of mine and has been PARAMOUNT in helping us with behavioral roadblocks in our salon. I can’t WAIT to see this grow for her!! ✌🏻❤️🐾 Contact her if you have any questions and/or to schedule!!

09/16/2024

**We found her! Someone found her up the road from my house and took her home for the night. They tracked me down today. So thankful! Thanks for all the shares. She wouldn't have found me without all of you**

One of my little tiny pups wandered out through a gap in my fence gate tonight. She's about 8 pounds. She just had a bath so she doesn't have a collar on. Im really hoping someone let her in their house so she isn't out in the dark all alone. Keep your eyes out for me! Near Evergreen Drive/Lowes area.

06/22/2024

Don’t force it. Find the struggle and work WITH the dog. ✌🏻❤️🐾

Being a cooperative care dog groomer means having comprehensive knowledge and understanding of good handling skills 🐾

Tarz has a bad back that makes it difficult for him to stand during grooming. It's also very hard for him to lift a rear leg for his groomer to shave his back legs or tummy without support.

With physically capable and otherwise healthy dogs, most groomers will ask a dog to stand for the entire process and lift a leg up while standing so the groomer can easily reach all areas. ✂️

For Tarz, that's just too much to ask of him and causes him physical discomfort. In order to provide the most comfortable care for Tarz, his groomer has him sit on the opposite hip from the one his groomer needs and comfortably kicks out the leg his groomer is wanting to work on rather than standing for the process.

While it may be slightly more challenging for the groomer to work this way, the comfort of the dog in our care should always come first. Make sure your groomer has great handling skills and cooperates with your dog, rather than forcing dogs through painful and uncomfortable situations just to "get the job done" 🙌

06/15/2024

For THEIR sake 🫶🏻

Finding a groomer you and your dog love & trust & sticking with them is not just convenient, but can be crucial. Here's why:

This is Bert the Scottie. He was diagnosed with diabetes about 5 months ago, and in a matter of about 6 weeks has gone almost completely blind as a result of the diabetes. 💔

Bert has been a Canine Cosmuttology client for almost 4 years now so he knows his groomers voice and routine very well by now. He knows the smells of our products as we do not change them. He knows the sounds of our tools and how they feel. And he knows the common cue words his groomer uses to prepare him for procedures such as asking him "are you ready?" to let him know we're about to proceed with something.

"The Name Game" is a common technique used by fear free and behavior specialist groomers alike to put a name or "cue" to a tool or procedure that the dog is able to understand and predict what is about to happen to them during the grooming process. For example, the groomer will name a slicker brush for the dog and may say "are you ready? We're going to brush" and the dog within a few grooming appointments learns what the "brush" is and what to expect.

This becomes crucial in cases like blindness. Bert won't have to be afraid and worry about what we're going to be doing now that he suddenly can't see during the grooming process because he knows many of the tools and procedures by name now and knows the order in which they are done for his individual comfort level. Beyond that, he knows his groomer loves him deeply, that he can trust her, and that she will respect and pay attention to his subtle body language cues of discomfort or fear.

When you find a groomer you and your dog love and trust, rebook and stay with them for your dogs sake. It means more to your dog than you know. 💚🩶🖤