Mother of teen daughter, dog/cat mom, canine coach, puppy trainer, animal rescuer/lover, and professional nanny for 35 years.

i've had dogs my entire life because my grandparents and parents were dog lovers. I did didn't get to have cats until I was an adult, but I've had cats and dogs my entire adult life as well. I began learning about Dog Training with my first puppy as an adult, but didn't really get into it More in depth until January 2021 when I was fostering two puppies that turned out to be Belgian Malinois! I did my best to learn as much as I could as I was raising them to make them more highly adoptable, but in the end they were foster fails and now belong to our family. the difficulty managing their breed forced me to learn more and more about Dog Training, but I really didn't have a clear method or approach until I discovered Dr. Ian Dunbar. now I am very excited to be launching my first puppy training program to prepare Puppies for more extensive training to become therapy, service, search and rescue, detection etc. working dogs, or really well behaved companions, pers and emotional support animals. i've been Pet Sitting for almost as long as I've been caring for children. I started taking care of children when I was only eight or nine years old, and was also responsible for helping with our family dogs. I began Pet Sitting when I was 18 years old in 1993. I love taking care of animals more than anything and I'm looking forward to expanding my Pet Sitting community here on PetMe!