Peace Love Paws

03/23/2025

Terriers…it’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. 🫠 Disclaimer: These images are not flipped, Kobe is just THAT GOOD at posing. ✌🏻❤️🐾

03/14/2025

⭐️ Rory ⭐️ …gets beveled feet and I’m feeling like: Bevels - 1 Pam - 0. 😅✌🏻❤️🐾

03/13/2025

I will forever prefer an overbite to an underbite. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤩🥰✌🏻❤️🐾

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.