An animal lover from birth, Rebecca has spent many years from the time of childhood till the present both growing up with and caring for animals, including 4 large dogs. She has cared for her family pets as well as providing pet sitting services for neighbors' pets. In addition, in exploring career options as a teen she interned at a veterinary office for 3 months where she learned basic emergency animal first aid and became a favorite person of the vet's Rottweiler and two Miniature Pinschers. Rebecca has over a decade of holding positions of responsibility: as a program aid in Girl Scouts where she was responsible for coordinating and running programs for younger scouts, managing the university orchestra for her entire undergraduate program and being a resident assistant in a major summer music program where she made use of a local dog walking program to set up a day hike with program attendees and rescue dogs looking for homes.