I’ve been an infant/toddler nanny for much of the last decade and a half, often caring for two or more at a time— I am extremely safety conscious and care about aligning with a pet parent’s preferences/needs just as much as I do when working with little humans. My best friend growing up was the family dog, and now I'm the proud human of a very good pup named Finn. While I adore dogs, I've cared for many kinds of animals in both paid and volunteer work settings. In the last few years, I have dog-trained professionally a bit (cooperatively developing and implementing a working dog training program/plan with an animal behavior specialist), volunteered in a full-accredited exotic animal sanctuary caring for large birds (Macaws, Cockatoos, and smaller), guinea pigs, mice, rats, turtles, and trained on care for larger "zoo"-type animals requiring even more careful practices (from ostriches to zebras to monkeys and lemurs), have trained my own dog on service tasks and traveled the country with him, have cared for rats and hamsters in my own home, and have house-sat and pet-sat for those with various animals including elderly cats requiring a complex and precise medication cocktail multiple times per day and even one I had to take to acupuncture-vet appointments (no joke). I've also been full-time nanny to small humans specializing in infants and toddlers for about a decade and a half, so I'm extremely safety-conscious and generally very responsible, with many references.