I’m a nurse from Texas, but also an artist and a self proclaimed adventurer. I recently left a long term job to pursue my life long dream of bicycling across Japan. Of my many travels I’ve never been to a more beautiful and welcoming place as Utah. So of course, I’ve proudly made it my home as of 2020. I have a Siberian cat, Nevada, who is probably my opposite in personality, but is reliably loyal and kind-spirited. Through-out my life I’ve cared for and owned many pets: fish, reptiles, invertebrates, plants, birds, dogs, chickens, horses, goats, cats, ferrets, hedgehogs, hamsters, rats, and bunnies. I’ve spent most of my summers and weekends in my hometown volunteering at the local wildlife rescue, particularly getting to know desert birds and a sweet mule deer, named Habib. I’ve also spent a great deal of time working for horse boarding stables. As an adult with personal income, pet ownership has always been an obsession; I’m on the Internet or in the library learning everything I can from history, husbandry, traits and ancestry to diet and anatomy. Even as a small child, I vowed to work in a zoo with the late Steve Irwin. Even so, every pet I’ve encountered cannot be summed up in research and data. They’re living bodies with the same electric impulses that power our own creative extraordinary brains. They’re individuals that deserve respect, sacrifice, patience, and love. I do understand that a pet owner will know more about their pet than myself and I will do what is asked of me within my own moral capacity and evidenced in scholarly research. Beyond the seriousness of my care, in person I come off as goofy and laid-back, much less intense than this “About Me.” Let’s work out the details, together. I want to help you feel knowledgeable and secure with who you delegate to care for your loved ones.