Wag the Dawg Pet Salon

06/04/2026

🐾 Full-Bred Chinese Shar-Pei Looking for a New Home 🐾

Meet this handsome full-bred Chinese Shar-Pei! He is approximately 1 year old, neutered, and looking for a loving, experienced home where he can thrive.

✨ About Him:
• Full-bred Chinese Shar-Pei
• Approximately 1 year old
• Neutered
• Very sweet and affectionate with his people
• Protective and loyal
• Playful and loves toys and playtime
• Allergic to chicken (requires a chicken-free diet)
• House-trained
• Friendly with other dogs when properly introduced, but he does not get along with every dog and would do best with slow, supervised introductions

🏡 What Comes With Him:
• His crate/cage
• His favorite toys
• Possibly a bag of his current dog food (if available at the time of rehoming)

He has a wonderful personality and is happiest when he’s with the people he trusts. Like many Shar-Peis, he can be protective of his family and can be selective about other dogs, so it’s important that any introductions are handled carefully. He would do best with an owner who understands the breed or is willing to learn about their unique needs and temperament.

This is a difficult decision, and my main goal is finding him a safe, loving, and permanent home where he will be cared for and appreciated.

If interested please call Cheyenne at
385-274-9981

05/22/2026

How GREAT is this?!!!

Does your pup have what it takes to be a star?? Enter your dog to the Best in SoJo Dog Show! 👑✨🏅

Thank you Scenthound for supporting this event!

Registration at: https://sjc.activityreg.com/selectactivity_t2.wcs?leaguesid=9384

05/04/2026

This is so true ❣️

Happy Sunday Friends ❤️

04/08/2026

Love has gentle hands…
I learned that from you.
Not in words.
Not in anything loud or grand.

But in the way you touched the world—
softly.
Carefully.
Like everything mattered.

Your paws never rushed through life.
They padded quietly across floors,
rested gently against my leg,
as if asking, “Are you okay?”
without ever needing an answer.

And somehow…
I always was.

You had this way of knowing.
When the day felt too heavy.
When my heart carried more than it should.

You’d come closer then—
not to fix anything,
just to be there…
your warmth pressed against me,
your breathing slow and steady,
like a quiet reminder that I wasn’t alone.

I didn’t realize it back then…
how healing that was.

How your presence softened everything sharp inside me.
How your silence spoke louder than any comfort I’d ever heard.

Now the house feels different.
Like the air has lost its softness.

No gentle paws brushing past me.
No quiet nudge of your nose against my hand.
No weight of your head resting there,
asking for nothing… giving everything.

I keep reaching down sometimes—
out of habit,
out of hope—
but my hand finds only emptiness.

And still…
there are moments.

When a breeze moves softly through the room.
When the sunlight warms my skin just enough.
When a memory wraps around me
like something alive.

And I feel it again.

That same gentle touch.

Maybe love doesn’t leave the way we think it does.
Maybe it lingers…
in invisible hands that still hold us
when we need it most.

Because you didn’t just love me—
you taught me how love feels.

Quiet.
Soft.
Unconditional.

Love has gentle hands…
and even now,
I still feel yours. 🌈🐾

03/18/2026

💜🐾POEM OF A DOG🐾💜

I am the one who always waits for you.
Your car has a special sound that I have imprinted on my senses and I can recognize it among a thousand.
Your steps have a magic timbre.
Your voice is music to my ears.
If I see your joy, it makes me happy!
Your scent is the best.
Your presence is what moves my senses.
Your awakening wakes me up.
I watch you sleep and for me you are my everything.
Your gaze is a ray of light.
Your hands on me have the lightness of peace and the sublime display of infinite love. When you go out, I feel a huge emptiness in my heart.
I wait for you again and again.
I am the one who will wait for you all my life today, tomorrow and always:
I am your dog 💜

03/11/2026

❤️ unconditional, beautiful love…

Dogs may leave this world, but before they do, they truly live.

They live lives brimming with courage and beauty. They stand by their families with a loyalty that never wavers, loving us with a fierceness that defies limits. They fill our days with laughter, our homes with comfort, and our hearts with an irreplaceable warmth.

Dogs don’t fret about the future. They embrace the present—chasing after their favorite toys, basking in patches of sunlight, and wagging their tails at the mere sound of our footsteps. They show us how to love unconditionally and find joy in life’s simplest moments.

Yes, dogs eventually pass on. But before they do, they give us every ounce of their being. That’s why their love lingers, long after they’ve left our side.

Here’s to the dogs who live boldly, love wholeheartedly, and leave imprints on our souls that last a lifetime. 🐾💖

Credit to original author

03/06/2026

This is so obvious for most of us, they love and feel and care more than most humans I know 🩷

Animals,
like us,
are living souls.
They are not things.
They are not objects.
Neither are they human.
Yet they mourn.
They love.
They dance.
They suffer.
They know the peaks
and chasms of being.

02/11/2026

Sometimes I feel like we can learn so much from the simplicity a dog’s life brings. They don’t get caught up in overthinking or worrying about tomorrow. They live fully in the present, finding joy in the smallest of things - a walk, a treat, just being with the ones they love.

They remind us that happiness doesn’t have to be complicated, that sometimes it’s the simplest moments that mean the most. In their uncomplicated way of living, they show us what it means to truly be present and content with what we have and not to take anything for granted at all.

02/07/2026

🩷💯🐾🩷

They call you a dog.
As if that word could ever hold
what you were to me.

You were more than fur and paws.
More than routines and walks.
More than something that slept at my feet.

You were my witness.

You saw me on days no one else did.
When I sat on the floor because standing felt like too much.
When my voice broke in ways I didn’t let the world hear.
You never asked questions.
You never needed explanations.

You just stayed.

You were there when life felt unbearable
and somehow… with you beside me…
it wasn’t.

You learned the sound of my sadness
before I ever spoke it.
You knew when to press closer,
when to make me laugh,
when to simply breathe with me
until the moment passed.

People say dogs don’t understand everything.

But you understood me.

You understood my silences.
My bad days.
My heart.

And when your body grew tired,
you tried to hide it for my sake.
Still following me from room to room.
Still choosing love over rest.
Still being you… until the very end.

Losing you didn’t just break my heart.

It broke my sense of safety.
My sense of home.

Because you weren’t something I owned —
you were someone I belonged to.

Now the house feels different.
Not empty…
just missing its heartbeat.

I still talk to you.
Still feel you in quiet moments.
Still catch myself smiling at memories
that hurt and heal all at once.

And I know this truth deep in my bones:

You were never just a dog.

You were family.
You were comfort.
You were unconditional love
wrapped in a body that couldn’t stay forever.

I believe you’re still near.
Still watching.
Still loving me in ways I can’t always see.

Because love like yours doesn’t end.

It changes form.
It softens time.
It waits patiently.

And when the day comes
that I get to see you again —
I won’t call you a dog.

I’ll call you what you’ve always been.

My heart.
My soul companion.
My forever. 🌈🐾

02/01/2026

I sometimes find myself thinking about how my dog pulled me through. Not in any big, dramatic way, but in the quiet moments when life just felt too heavy. He didn’t need answers or advice to offer; he was just there, beside me, every single day. When I was worn out and ready to throw in the towel, he’d give me that little nudge, his eyes saying, “You’re okay. We’ve got this.” And somehow, that was enough to keep going.

He never cared about the mistakes I made or judged me for falling short. He simply showed up, steady and loyal in a way you don’t always see in people.
There are days I wonder where I’d be without him—probably lost in my own chaos, tangled up in thoughts I can’t control. But he’s here, keeping me grounded in the simplest way. And that’s how he saved me,one day at a time, just by being there, exactly when I needed someone the most.