My mom worked as a vet tech and I remember many afternoons spent helping out by feeding and watering overnight stays and walking many of the dogs. This was at the age of 5 (probably wouldn't happen in this day and age, but things were different back then.) By age 6 I was bathing cats and pilling dogs. At 11 I was assisting with injections. My first paying clients were when I was 12. I had two dog-walking jobs and I walked the dogs every afternoon, 5 days a week. I also had a client with a black lab and a 1/2 Rhodesian Ridgeback that I pet-sat for on a regular basis. I even spent a summer volunteering/working at Kendalwood Morgan Showhorse Farm in Glenpool, Oklahoma. I fed and watered and groomed and cooled down the horses everyday. (I wasn't getting paid so I didn't muck the stalls!).

I graduated from pet-grooming school in the summer of 1991. I have done volunteer work with the SPCA. I have done work with rescue animals including Greyhounds (where I received instruction on the T-Touch Massage Method), wolfdogs, goats, hedgehogs, cats, turtles, rats, ferrets and guinea pigs.

I have bred and shown guinea pigs, hedgehogs, rabbits, and dogs over the last 25 years. I have not bred any dogs in over a decade, though that may change with the addition of a show quality Finnish Spitz to the family. We are currently raising and showing cavies (guinea pigs) as a 4-H project, and for fun.

Over the years, my love for all critters has never waned. I have preformed various in-home pet services regularly since 1981. Pet-Sitting, Photography, Grooming, Training, Dog Walking, Pet Taxi... you name it I have probably done it. It was sporadic and very informal for the first 15 years or so.

I am a home-schooling mom. While I had previously considered taking all my pet-related experience and turning it into a career offering pet sitting to the general public, I decided against it. This was because I was not willing to give up my holidays with my family, and I knew as a pet sitter holidays would be busy times. We used to travel between 3 or 4 homes between Wimberly and Houston for the holidays. Now we generally stay in town and my son is old enough that I don’t feel like I am missing out if I leave to care for people’s pets on the holidays.