The Soapy Dog

11/26/2025

We will be closed for for Thanksgiving, November 27th-December 1st. We will reopen on December 2nd with our normal hours!!🧡💛

11/11/2025

A fresh pup makes every holiday cozier. 🍂💛 Schedule your Thanksgiving groom before spots fill up!

10/18/2025

The handsome Zazu came to get his monthly pampering at his favorite spa🧡🎃

08/22/2025

Mr. Winston back again for their spa day glow-up ✂️🐾 Always such a joy to see this cutie!

08/17/2025

Miss Daisy looking paw-fect after spa day💖

06/17/2025

The gentlest giant came in for some pampering 🐾🛁

06/14/2025

Before the bubbles 🐶🫧

02/10/2024

Just a reminder from The Soapy Dog team! February is dental health month!Have your furry friends teeth evaluated by your vet!

10/01/2022

What are A**l Glands?
The a**l glands in dogs are small sacs located in the a**l opening. The a**l gland deposits your dogs specific scent each time they defecate, just another way dogs mark their territory. Most of the time, when your dog poops, the a**l gland will express itself and there are no problems. Sometimes, the glands get overfilled or blocked and your dog may need help expressing them.

A blocked or full a**l gland can be very uncomfortable for your pet. You may notice them Scooting their behind on the floor, nibbling at their back end, straining to poo, or leaking from their back end. You may also notice an overwhelming fishy odor or redness/swelling of their a**s. If you notice this may be time to get your dogs a**l glands expressed. The Soapy Dog, will express them externally upon request as part of your grooming service or as a walk in service. If your groomer is unable to safely and successfully express the glands externally, we will refer you to your vet for internal expression.

09/22/2022

09/14/2022

Today is The Soapy Dog's Birthday! We wouldn't be here without all of you! We want to take the time out to give a huge thank you to our valued clients and pets. For your loyalty, support, and trust, we are continually grateful. The Soapy Dog looks forward to pampering your pets for many years to come!

09/13/2022

Ever noticed those slits at the sides of a dog’s nose? Why do dogs have them?

Once again, nature proves her elegance in the design of our dogs. When we humans inhale and exhale, air comes in the same way it goes out. Any smells that come in through our mouths are forced out as we exhale.

When a dog exhales through his nose, however, the exhaled air is released through those slits and off to the side so that nice, smelly air going into the dog’s nostrils doesn’t get diluted with the outgoing air. Put another way, the slits allow the dog to avoid smelling what he just exhaled.

The slits help the dog hold scent particles in the nostrils even as exhaled air passing out the slits creates a swirling air turbulence allowing interesting odors to be inhaled directly into the centre of each nostril. Since dogs breathe faster when trying to sniff a certain smell, they widen their nostrils to pull in more air which makes it possible for a dog searching for smells to have a steady stream of air coming in for up to 40 seconds, maybe even longer.

The slits also allow dogs to wiggle each nostril independently which gives them the ability to know which nostril a smell entered. This is how a dog can pinpoint where a smell is coming from, and why a dog searching for smells on the ground will weave back and forth as he follows a trail.

We all know the superb smelling abilities of dogs, but let’s use an a**logy between scent and sight to really put it into perspective: What we as humans can see at a third of a mile, our dog can see more than 3,000 miles away and still see as well.