Seaside Pet Spa, Scituate MA

Good morning!

We will be open Monday & Tuesday this week, closed the rest of the week to celebrate Independence Day! Please be safe & enjoy! 🇺🇸

SAS looking to help some kitties out! 💕

We need your help!

We currently have 31 kittens in foster care and will be taking in 15 more today from another rescue who is helping with an overwhelming hoarding case.

Can you imagine how much these little ones are eating?!

We could really us:
Fancy Feast Kitten Wet food
Science Diet Kitten Dry Food

We could also use any brand clumping cat litter and toys!

https://www.chewy.com/g/scituate-animal-shelter_b121206945 -list&wishlistsortby=AVAILABILITY

Despite so much work on spay and neutering, this kitten season has been overwhelming with the calls we've been getting to help. Please help us help kittens!

You can mail any donations to:
Scituate Animal Shelter
780 Chief Justice Cushing Highway
Scituate, MA

Or drop off anytime in our donation bin!

Daphne is taking a break between her bath and trim. She’s a good girl!

Belle was just sitting like this *patiently*waiting for her mom!!! What a goof ball 😂😂

Good afternoon! Just an FYI-our phone completely died this morning, which resulted in a Verizon trip. We’ve retrieved most of our texts to the new phone but lost all correspondence within the last 24 hours or so. If you w messaged us and we haven’t responded, please text us again. None of our messages within the last day or so were saved to iCloud. Thanks!

Happy Spring!!!! Franks sure been enjoying it! We have some exciting news to share with you!!! 🐾

Seaside has added a very talented groomer to our already awesome team, so we are able to take on some new clients for rotating appointments!! Rachel brings 12 years of grooming experience to the table. She’s talented, patient, and excited to be part of our team, and we’re grateful to have her.

We are accepting approximately 25-30 new clients who can be on a regular rotation of every 4/6 or 8 weeks. If you’re interested in joining us, please text at 781-733-7461.

Welcome, Rachel!

If anyone’s interested, Britt’s mom makes these! How adorable!!!!!

Isn’t Harper such a pretty lady?! 🍀 ❤️

🐾Happy Monday! 🐾 *NEW CLIENT POST*. UPDATE: all openings have been filled!!

We have a few gaps on our schedule for February, so there is availability to accept 5-8 new clients on our rotation (depending on size). (We’ve reached out to folks on the waitlist, but timing is not working out, so I’ve decided to post here rather than keep texting). Spots are for February to start a 6 or 8 week rotation, **we are unable to take anyone who would not be able to book this month.**

We would love to take referral clients from folks who already use our services. Clients with pups who will remain on a maintenance schedule of every 6-8 weeks, have no major behavioral concerns, and will be available for grooming this month to start the rotation. A $50 deposit is required to hold a new client appt, which goes entirely towards the first groom.

If you have friends or family interested, please reach out to me directly via TEXT @ 781-733-7461. I will update the post when the spots are filled. Openings on our schedule don’t pop up too often, so this is a great time to get in with us if you’ve been waiting!

Isn’t this the cutest?!! Crafts by Sharon made this for us! We have some here for sale if anyone is interested!

That’s a wrap for 2023 for us at Seaside! Thank you so much for being such amazing and generous clients. We greatly appreciate all the thoughtful cards, gifts, gratuities and treats we received this holiday season. We wish you all a healthy and peaceful holiday season! We will be closed until January 3rd and away from the phone for a much needed break. See you all next year!!!!

It appears as though all of Scituate is without power still, meaning we will be unable to open today. The week before Christmas, this is just very unfortunate. 😔 We will be individually texting clients after 7 am. Stay safe everyone. ❤️UPDATE! power is on, we are open!!

We lost power. Calling all clients. Do not come in for your appt! 12/18 at 10:15. We will update as soon as we can!

SAY WHAT!!! 🐶🐾💰💰🐾🦮

Let’s help some shelter pups over the holidays and give one lucky client a free grooming session!

For every dollar dropped in our donation bin (on our counter in the salon), get one entry towards winning a FREE GROOM at Seaside! $1=1 entry, $10=10 entries etc. Drawing will be at the end of our work day on 12/22 and hopefully we will drop a FULL envelope of $$ over at SAH!!! This will will be cash only donation, monitored by Billy, drawing will be videoed and posted on Facebook!

Let’s go!

Happy Sunday everyone!

The Holiday Season is officially upon us!

To help us work as efficiently as possible, please be sure to drop off and collect dogs on time. We will text (or call if requested) for pick up! Please do not show up until we let you know your pup is ready to go home and try to refrain from texting to “check in” for pick up at 3:30 because it’s getting dark and seems like 8 pm (this happens every year because it seems so late because it’s SO DARK)!! We will likely be working later some evenings as the Christmas holiday gets closer. Please be patient with us ❤️

We hope everyone has an amazing holiday season and we will be doing our best to post adorable pics!

Here’s a large dose of cute dogs to help get your day off to the right start!

We hope you had a nice Thanksgiving!!! Please read this post for some important info in regards to the virus that has hit some states in the US.

We are aware that there is a respiratory virus going around that in some cases, has been very severe because it doesn’t respond to antibiotics (not surprising, viruses don’t). As many of you already know, we take sanitization VERY seriously at the salon and will continue to do so, even more so than normal. We use special sanitizer that is specifically formulated to kill the toughest viruses. (It’s called 256, feel free to check it out).

What we need from our clients is the following:

*Don’t panic. We are not panicked…just watching closely and taking some extra precautions. Please don’t cancel your appts in fear. If there’s an issue, we will alert all clients and take necessary steps. We are diligently following this on social media and through reliable news sources. There is a very LOW rate of death with this. Remain cautious but no panicking! The news has caught the wind of this one, but truthfully, viruses are flowing around all the time.

*Please be diligent with your pup…ESPECIALLY if you’ve traveled with your pup, boarded, or your dog is frequently in play with others. Make choices that work for your pup, but if your dog is actively around and playing with others, make sure they’re healthy and vaccinated according to your vet’s recommendations.

*If you notice any symptoms at all, call your vet…DO NOT take your dog anywhere else…same protocol as any respiratory virus, gastro issue, or any other illness. Respiratory illness is really contagious, so extra care must be taken.

*Please pick your dogs up immediately after their grooms are completed. This allows us time to properly sanitize between dogs and limits exposure.

*Please text me with any questions or concerns and remember to smile like Sweetie!

Thanks so much! ~Allison & Billy

Some pics from today ( and some from a couple days back)!!! All Alyssa managed was to get a picture of Bobs beautiful teefers. We have to work on Alyssa’s photo count 🤣😬

Some pups from today! ❤️🐾

Chief is in the United States Marines for Halloween! We LOVE IT! Let’s see those costumes!!

Hey Seaside clients! We hope everyone’s doing well!

We just wanted to throw out a quick reminder to make sure you check your dates for your November and December appts. We have had a TON of last-minute rescheduling happening lately, which has been super time consuming! We would SUPER appreciate if folks could check the dates prior to make sure the appt is good! For the holiday weeks, those are “specialty” appts, and we have been holding many of those appts for as long as a year…please don’t cancel on us last minute. If you need to check your appts, text us! The holidays are booked, we are now keeping a waitlist. Last minute cancels cause us to lose out on a spot, so we ask for everyone’s consideration, especially during the holidays! Thanks everyone! 🐾❤️

This is not our client, but our hearts go out to Maggie’s family. There are a few emergency vets in our area including Angell, VCA and some on the Cape. This is a good reminder to always keep an eye on your pups, they get into things easily. And if they do, don’t wait. Toxicity happens fast.

Please read and share this post as it could save a dog's life.

This week we found out the devastating news that one of our amazing grooming pups passed away unexpectedly. She was playing in her yard and ate a poisonous mushroom and died within 3 hours.

While Tufts Emergency Veterinary Hospital is a wonderful place, they were not able to care for this very sick pup. The owners did not know where else to go so they drove all the way to Ocean State Emergency Veterinary Specialists in RI and by that time it was too late. She sadly passed within ten minutes of walking in the door. These owners acted fast and did everything right and it still happened too fast for them to get the help she needed.

By sharing this very sad story, we hope to raise awareness about two very important tips that every pet owner should be aware of:

1. With all of the rain we have been getting, there are mushrooms everywhere right now. The Vet said this is the worst mushroom outbreak they have seen in years and 4 dogs were seen earlier that day for the same thing. So please be mindful if you have mushrooms in your yard and also keep an eye out when you walk your dog.

2. There are closer places to get your dog Emergency Care in Central Massachusetts than driving to RI that we want more people to know about.

The Veterinary Emergency Group is right in Shrewsbury, MA.
(196 Boston Turnpike, phone: 508-590-9319)
They are open 24/7, you do not need to call ahead, and it is about 15 minutes away from Tufts.

If you are not from central Massachusetts, we encourage you to find the two closest emergency veterinary clinics and save the contact information in case you ever need it.

If you suspect your dog ate a poisonous mushroom you can also call the *Animal Poison Emergency Hotline: 888-426-4435 (*Please note there is a fee for this).
https://www.aspcapro.org/topics-animal-health/toxicology-poison-control

Here is a helpful article on mushroom poisoning in dogs:
https://namyco.org/mushroom_poisonings_in_dogs_an.php

We are absolutely devastated by the loss of our sweet friend, Maggie. If this post helps save even one dog's life then it will be worth sharing.

*This post was shared with permission of Maggie's wonderful family. Our heartfelt condolences go out them and everyone who loved her. She was such a special girl and she will always have a place in our hearts.❤️

Diggory was ready for his treats!!!! 🍭

When you’re a big ham 🤣🥰

I thought I’d share this very special picture my sister took of me with my boys today. We lost both our girls this past spring and miss them terribly, so capturing special moments with my boys means so much ❤️🐾

Old man Oscar has some “Oscar the grouch” moments and he got some serious spice on occasion, but we have a good thing going because we trust each other after 4 years together. 🐾🐾