I was fortunate to be adopted into an Italian family where being an entrepreneur was at the forefront. My mother started a women’s networking and referral business in 1977. I began working at a young age, because that is what we did as Italians, join the family business. I always say I got the best business education being surrounded by not only my mother, but hundreds of empowering female business owners. How could I not follow this path?

It was not until later, where I left the family business to pursue something new, that I realized dog care was not only a career, but a business. I have always had a love for animals, especially dogs. Despite being bit at the age of 2, yeah, that is another story. I joke that it made me like Peter Parker, I am part dog now.

I started in the dog daycare environment. I worked at the way bottom all the way to helping businesses open. It was when I got a summer job in Santa Fe at a daycare that was run by trainers who taught me so much about dog behavior and the positive way to teach dogs, even in a chaotic environment, that I knew I could have my own business and do it differently. I soaked up as much as I could from them and even went through an online training course with the amazing Jean Donaldson.

In 2010 Oh To Be A Dog was born. It has and always will be about the dogs first. We pride ourselves on care and most of all safety.