Dog Adoption Success Program

I’ve been passionate about animals since I can remember, sneaking stray cats home in my backpack and following the stray neighborhood dog and feeding it bologna until it trusted me. I have a long history of feeling connected to animals and being compelled to help them. I studied vet medicine for 4 years only to realize my heart needed to help animals in a different way. I didn’t know what that looked like yet, but the next events helped me get there.

I’ve always been known as the animal person in friend groups and at my early non animal related jobs. In 2008, I agreed to help a co-worker with her dog. The dog ended up attacking me and sending me to the hospital for 5 days. He broke my arm in 2 places and bit up both arms and legs pretty badly. It took me over 6 months to physically recover from the injuries. I knew I’d recover physically, what I didn’t expect was the PTSD. I was all of a sudden debilitatingly afraid of dogs, even if I knew the dog already, but only at random times.

I was NOT about to give up my passion for dogs, so instead I started to study dog behavior. I started to understand what dogs were thinking and “trying to tell me” with their body language and I felt like I learned another language. I learned to “speak dog”. It was incredible. I wasn’t afraid anymore, I was excited! A whole new world opened up to me. I knew I had found my calling. Helping dogs (and helping people understand their dogs), became my passion.

I have lived in the dog world ever since, using this passion in building a business with my sister that included dog walking, pet sitting, dog training, pack hikes and adventures, eventually opening a doggy daycare, bed and breakfast, grooming, and training facility. I have learned from 1000’s of dogs and their people, in so many scenarios and settings. I have developed from every experience and interaction and I have learned several ways to help people ease their frustrations and build amazing relationships with “man’s best friend”.