Oh, Tricia is simply amazing, almost beyond words! I believe the best way to explain is to tell our story. Tricia was a neighbor I knew from watching her walk all kinds of dogs and she would always stop at my fence with the dogs when my Dalila was in the yard. Dalila is my King Charles Cavalier, she had no doggie companions and loved to great the neighborhood dogs. I had never had a doggie birth before and my vet kept reassuring me that I really didn't need to do anything when time came Dalila would naturally know what to do, but it seemed that it was taking too long and Dalila seemed to be distress. I didn't want to move her by myself, but I heard Tricia coming by with the dogs and rushed out to ask for help carrying Dalila to the car. Tricia quickly put the dogs in my fenced backyard and came inside. She checked Dalila out and asked me some questions. She assured me that yes Dalila was indeed in labor and showed me how I could feel her contractions. She told me that Dalila was doing just great and since she wasn't damp from sweating, her breathing was heavy, but not not unusually so, that she was just in labor not in distress. She said she would happily help me carry her to the car, but that the moving and veterinarian trip could put her distress. The whole time she was talking with me she was petting Dalila and Dalila was laying there and seemed much calmer, where before she kept moving around. I told Tricia that I would give it a little more time. She asked me to sit where she was and to talk to Dalila while petting her and that she would drop off the dogs and return within 15 minutes. I was feeling much calmer and could tell Dalila was too. Dalila still hadn't had a pup by the time Tricia returned and I was getting worried again. Once again Tricia gently touched Dalila's belly. She said that she believed we would have a pup very soon. She wasn't wrong, Dalila gave birth to 3 pups over the next two hours. Tricia stayed with me until we were pretty sure Dalila was done. Tricia seemed to have a wonderful calming affect on both Dalila and myself. Tricia tried explaining that Dalila was just stressed, because I was and because this was her first litter and that Dalila had calmed down, because I had. I told her that I think she just has a magical touch with people and animals. We have all become good friends since then and I'm just so grateful for Tricia's calm nature!