The beauty of starting again!

Welcome! Here is what you can expect to find here!

This is not the first Shiny Healthy Dogs. I first started the SHD blog in 2015, a way to play with my pack of crazy dogs and put a little information out into the world. I was a former vet tech who owned Pawsibilities, my home grooming shop of almost twenty years, and had a pretty varied education as far as pet care, so I covered grooming tips, training tips, some animal communication info, as well as posts showcasing products that we tried and really liked. It was casual and fun. It gave me a reason to take the dogs and my camera everywhere.

In 2018, my beautiful bull mastiff, Muscles, died of cancer. My heart was broken, and I couldn’t continue writing for SHD. It wasn’t the same. I needed to go inward and grieve with my family and the rest of our pack. I wasn’t sure I would ever write about dogs again. Then I closed my grooming shop after twenty years and the pandemic hit. Life kind of went crazy.

Fast forward to today and plenty has changed. The world is slowly opening up again. The kids are older, one graduated, one in high school, so my time is a bit freer. Even my day job is cooperating with a good schedule that gives me plenty of time to write. Bruce the bull mastiff puppy has charged into our midst and healed my broken heart. (Mr. Muscles would approve, I know.) All signs seem to point to go.

So, here we go again.

I plan on writing again about my crazy pack of mutts. And our adventures in grooming, training, animal communication, and I will be adding a new category: Nutrition. I really feel like feeding an all natural and raw food gave Muscles another two years of quality life, and I think it is important to share ways that everyone can add natural, real foods that can help keep your pups healthy.

I hope you will join us on our adventures. You can subscribe to the newsletter to keep in touch with us. I promise not to overwhelm you. But I have some things in mind that might be fun to try with us. I’ll post more about that later. In the mean time, it’s so good to be back. I’m looking forward to what comes next.

Cheers!

Terri and the SHD Pack