Hand2Paws

11/25/2025

Coco & Beamer Melted today!!

🩷💙🩷💙

11/22/2025

Adopting a senior pet is one of the kindest actions you can do for a rescue. They get overlooked and euthanized way too often. 🥵

Today, I picked up this sweet old man from the shelter. And the moment he sat in the car… he didn’t bark, he didn’t wag, he just looked at me with eyes full of tears.
I don’t know what broke him more—the months of waiting… or the fear that no one would ever come.
This gentle old Rottweiler spent nearly a year tucked away in a corner kennel, watching people walk past him again and again. Too old. Too slow. Too “unadoptable.”
But they never saw what I saw today… a tired soul who just wanted someone to finally stop for him.
Maybe his tears were the sadness of all those lonely nights on a cold concrete floor, wondering if he’d grow old and die behind metal bars.
Maybe it was the confusion of being led out of the only place he’s known for months, unsure if this car ride was a beginning… or yet another ending.
Or maybe… just maybe… those tears were hope. Real hope.
Hope that the soft car seat meant comfort.
Hope that the hand on his back meant safety.
Hope that—for the first time in a very long time—he wasn’t invisible.
He’s almost 9. A senior Rottie. Most people walked right past him because of that number. But today, that number doesn’t define him anymore.
Today, he walked out of that shelter not as a forgotten dog… but as somebody’s family.
His name is no longer a fading tag on a kennel door.
It’s a promise.
A promise that his last chapter will be filled with warmth, full bowls, cozy beds, and love so steady it rewrites every heartbreak he’s ever known.
Whatever those tears meant—sadness, relief, or the first flicker of joy—one thing is certain now:
He will never, ever have to wonder if he matters again.
Because he does.
And he is loved. 🖤🐾

( Credit of story and picture goes to original owner )

11/22/2025

Do not let your dogs in the water for at least 3 days

WARNING: the entire coast of Orange County has higher bacteria levels than state health standards say is safe. Please don’t swim, surf or allow your dogs to play in the ocean until three days after the rain stops.

11/22/2025

11/22/2025

It’s starting to feel a lot like Christmas!! 🎄🐶🤍

And it’s not even Thanksgiving yet. 🤣

Tiggy & Khalesi are quite happy!!

11/21/2025

Cutest Bulldog Ever!! Sweetest too! My Romeo 💙

He starts every massage chewing a toy, a bone, something. Sometime after he just drops it and settles in and just enjoys it.

11/20/2025

Pretty Maggie after she chased her boyfriend across the street. 🩷

11/19/2025

Please don’t have a dog if you can’t love it as a member of your family. They are one of the most loving and loyal creatures on this earth and they deserve the best.

11/16/2025

Busy day
I do massage the 3rd Saturday of each month. 🐶🐾💜👐🏼

2 new clients Fizzle & Minx, both senior border terriers and very sweet.

Return client Trooper who did much better 2nd time around. First time couldn’t stop kissing me (🤣) but today we actually got work done.

Blossom the Chihuahua, Mint & Tomorrow, the Pomeranian’s continue their massage treatments.

The AWC is a fantastic place that can meet all your dogs holistic and veterinarian needs. They have a pool, water treadmill, laser therapy, acupuncture, holistic veterinarian and much more.

Call for appointment.

11/15/2025

These brands still TESTin animals.

Boycott please

11/15/2025

Today was a good day!

Extra special because Kolo was back from 3 weeks at camp!!

Kolo, Oliver & Tiggy 🤍🤍🤍