No, it's referring to a person that comes to the door of salvation and then turns back to their ways. We read in 2 Pet. 2:21-22, "For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again "
It certainly can refer to backsliding, but a dog is often used in scripture to refer to the unsaved. See 2 Peter 2:22. I believe both the dog returning to its vomit and the sow to wallowing in the mud is a picture of an unsaved man who made a profession of faith but wasn't truly born again and given a new nature. They then return to living just the way they did before they made a profession.
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