Hello there, While growing up in Concord, MA, my family owned a black lab named Hez. He was my dog, and I took him to obedience/training school. This spawned a dog walking and training biz in my hood around 1980. I went off to college and, in waltz, a swanky black kitten that I named Velcrow. She moved west with me and lived 16 years, so I learned to cook for senior cats. A beautiful ex-racer greyhound named Diesel Lamar had me at the first meeting, so I bought a van so he could come with me wherever I went. That turned into a bi-coastal commute. So we spent days together exploring this country while making the trip from SF to NYC 2x a year for three years. He was a thin-skinned 35 mph bullet. He had his fair share of scrapes, bee stings and wipeouts. So I am very well versed in first aid: butterfly bandaging of wounds, removal of ticks, and administering drugs of all sorts. Diesel broke my heart when he passed on in 2016. I recently moved to back to Concord and am now in Stow due to the pandemic to be with family. My family and I cared for my brother, who had cancer, from 2019 to 2021, and I'm happy to say he is fully recovered. I have remained in the area and work in community engagement and cultural planning with local municipalities.