Hello! My name is Amanda. I have 28+ years of experience working and raising animals. My first job was walking the dogs in my neighborhood when I was 11. I worked for several years as a specialist in a pet store and in vet hospitals. I have had horses my entire life and have worked in barns, trained and taught lessons for 15 years up until I had a major car accident. Since then I have been helping in the rescuing and fostering of 25+ dogs and cats, of all shapes and sizes, attitudes and health problem. Between that and raising my own AKC Australian Shepherds I have an extensive back round with dogs and am comfortable with large and small breeds, most temperaments and most health issues/concerns. I am happy to administer medications, including shots. I am also available to watch other pets as well. I am comfortable with farm animals and exotics as I've had or worked with quite a few different animals. I am home full time so I am available Monday-Sunday. When I am away from the house it is for less than 3 hours normally. I also take one of my dogs, Bailey, who is a registered Therapy dog to the senior center 1-2 times a week but am not usually gone more than an hour and half since it is right in town. Special requests can be worked out if need be. I have a large house with a very large fully fenced backyard. There is also about a half an acre within the fence that is fenced in and has 4 10x10 covered dog pens on cement. That area is specially for the dogs and has trees, logs, places for digging and a baby pool. We have a large grass area in the rest of the fenced acre and a half which is where all games of ball, frisbee or tugs are played at least once a day. I do have dogs of mine own which are all well mannered and up to date on thier vaccinations, de-worming, heartworm and flea/tick preventative.