Golden Paw Spa & Hardscrabble Homestead

10/11/2026

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09/23/2026

620-0943 will be unreachable for a week or so, please call or text (207) 931-5070. I’ll try to turn fb msging back on and see if that works again.

09/15/2026

The app company finally did it! Now you have a parent portal and can keep track of appointments and even cancel right online! Check it out now:

09/15/2026

Please remember you can book online if you can’t reach us easily! We are taking clients and booking Mondays through Thursdays!

Cuddles

09/14/2026

It’s been a long week! Thank you everyone for your patience while Rosie was sick!

Unfortunately she caught something and had to be out Tuesday through Friday last week and in the process of being (apparently violently ill) she was also injured. This left me (Bri) on my own for the shop on top of prepping for the Litchfield fair (which I took a bigger volunteer position in) this year.
As a 4H leader, shop owner, homeschooling mom of 2, this past week was enormously busy! I never left the fairgrounds Thursday -Sunday. We all had fun and hopefully can settle back into normal busy for the next few weeks.
I have 1 more family trip planned before it’s time to pack up the camper and settle in for winter. Please remember we both have kids and this school year will be 3 kids in sports! We will do our best to rotate schedules when needed to make sure everyone gets their grooming done.
Please don’t hesitate to use our online booking tool, it’s there, with as much info as possible, to make booking easier for all of us. And the cuddles app updated so now you’re supposed to be able to log in and see upcoming appointments! I’ll try to do an update post on that soon.

Thank you all for your patience and understanding!

With love,
Briana & Rosie❤️

09/05/2026

Well this is fun…

For the last 2 months Rosie and I have been dealing with the T-mobile transition… Rosie got most of the messages first 4 weeks later I get the “thank you for joining T-Mobile” 💩 since then, about half of my voicemails go to the early 2000’s system that I apparently have to call in, enter pin, retrieve voicemail… well I just got the update tonight that my “voicemail box can be set up now, please select a pin”. A ridiculous amount of unread voicemails come through… from June… 🤦‍♀️

Another FYI, Rosie is in SOS mode while at her home 1/2mile down the street and my service is 1 bar upstairs and SOS in the basement shop… Wifi calling works when spectrum isn’t spotty.

Can we go back to copper telephone lines now?

Rant over, if you need anything grooming wise please text… those seem to come in best on the WIFI.
2079315070 Rosie Monday -Thursday
2076200943 Briana Wednesday afternoon only
Phones shut off at 7pm and do not come back on until 8am.
☎️

08/12/2026

08/06/2026

So as with a lot of Maine and most of Litchfield, our communities have increasingly dry wells. With the weather lately a lot of families are without water. These are tough times with the drought.

With a lot of luck and some household managing we have had very few times where our family has been without water this year but it is increasing. Please try to remember that 2 families live on this property with the business and 1 well. Grooming uses water, lots of it. Between the baths and the laundry and sanitary measures, a lot of water is used. Combine that with showers, dishes, laundry for 2 households…

The day has finally come where we had to cancel a whole day due to no water. We are always on high hopes this is temporary but luck is running out. We will be possibly looking at a single pet recycling system where we recycle soapy water back to the same pet for each wash then use clean water to rinse, but this is not our favorite choice. Currently we have reduced our process down to 1 wash and 1 rinse per pet which is not doing the quality job we’re used to.

Please be advised that we may need to adjust or limit scheduling so we don’t run out of water for the families. Pray our water levels come back to normal soon. We would absolutely hate to shut down. If things don’t change we may be forced to send our groomers out to work for other companies. (Gross🤢🤣)

And here, check out our stud sunny, hiding in our bathtub during the last thunderstorm🤦‍♀️ N***y!

07/17/2026

Not my video but in my 20 years in grooming, (Eeww can’t believe it’s been that long) I have seen too many of these grooms and the medical results from this matting. And being on the grooming side I’ve had so many “I just brushed last night” and “he wasn’t matted last week” or “I’ll make my next appointment in 6 months”… these pets need grooming more often😢

06/15/2026

If booking Monday through Friday with Rosie call or text her @ +1 (207) 931-5070 (She is her own employee not an employee of the homestead)

And as of July 2026:
If booking with Briana, it’s Wednesday’s ONLY, call or text 207-620-0943 (Homestead owner and Golden breeder)

We both have family’s, sports, youth groups, Homeschool groups, and church, so weekends are unavailable.