I loved dogs so much as a child that I remember asking my grandma’s neighbors in Fort Lauderdale, FL if I could walk their dogs. They gladly agreed! They chose to pay my sister and I but I would have done it for free (which was good because our mom wouldn’t let us accept the money! 😅)! It combines two of my passions- exercise and dogs! I wanted a dog SO BAD that I would save the ads in the newspaper featuring dogs for sale all the way until I was 12, when my parents finally agreed to let me get a dog. We went to a farm to get him and the day we went there, his mom had had moved the litter of pups to a hollowed out log in the woods! It’s as if she knew what was happening! We almost had to give up the idea of leaving with a puppy. But finally we found them—-hoooray!! I had gone there with the intention of getting a male dog and this one puppy kissed me. It turns out he was the only male in the whole litter! I took a very short video of him (my camera died) and cherished it for weeks until somehow it deleted from overuse (technology wasn’t so good back then). Good thing soon they were old enough to go to new homes. This was my first dog—Eddie (a Great Pyrenees/Anatolian Shepherd/Komondor mix)!! He and my sister’s first dog Jasmine had my second dog Grizzly (born in 2009, my JR yr of HS), who became the beloved family dog—“my big ‘ole boy!” (He’s the big dog featured in the pictures above)😍🥹🙏. He was such a loving dog. He always had to be holding hands or resting his big hand on me if he was near, which he always wanted to be near. He became my longtime best friend. Growing up on a farm & being a foster dog mom with Unleashed Pet Rescue, I’ve worked with puppies to senior dogs who need medical care, tiny dogs, huge dogs, and many other pets (goats, rabbits, horses, cows, chickens, geese, etc)! I love animals so my heart is to take really good of care of your sweet fur or feather babies. I look forward to meeting them and you. 😊