GENEVIEVE'S ANIMAL CARE

Genevieve has been a lifelong animal lover and animal welfare advocate, growing up in New York City in a family of animal lovers and professional singers, actors and artists, with 4 cats, 2 hamsters and 3 goldfish. Her first two furry siblings were her Mom's Siamese cats who slept in her crib with her. 

Her first job was walking neighborhood dogs on the Upper West Side. She took home her science classroom's mice to care for them over spring break.  Everywhere she traveled in the world, she'd find stray animals to feed. 

Born with moderate allergies to all animals and mild asthma, which she was fervently treated with exposure and some good medications. Her family's love for animals was so strong that when the allergist recommended to get rid of the animals in the house, her parents got rid of the allergist! They knew she'd build a stronger immunity through exposure, that it was all too important to be loyal to our furry children, and that nothing was going to stop her from spending time with animals. And so Genevieve surrounded herself with her own and everyone else's animals until one day she had built up enough of an immunity that she no longer considered herself allergic to animals. Love conquers!

In her mid-30s, while a professional singer, actor and voice over artist, Genevieve began devoting much of her time to obtaining her post-baccalaureate degree in Animal Science at Rutgers University's School for Environmental and Biological Sciences and New Jersey City University, where she maintained a 3.8 GPA in upper level science and math courses with the goal of becoming a veterinarian.

To this goal, she worked for 5 years as a core volunteer member of Rabbit, Rescue and Rehab, the NYC Chapter of the House Rabbit Society, facilitating adoptions, educating the public on rabbit husbandry, and fostering over 10 medical needs rabbits, learning about rabbit medicine directly from her renowned avian and exotics vet Dr. Anthony Pilny, the National Medical Director of the House Rabbit Society.

Genevieve volunteered at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, the largest animal sanctuary in the United States, in Kanab, Utah, during several vacations. In the Rabbit, Horse, Dog, Cat and Parrot departments, she worked with staff to accomplish daily husbandry chores. For over 30 years, Best Friends Animal Society has been running the nation’s largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals and building effective programs all across the country that reduce the number of animals entering shelters. The Sanctuary is at the heart of the organization, as it is home to 1700 animals on any given day. The outreach is far as wide in large, high-profile rescues from air lifting 200 dogs and cats out of war-torn Lebanon, to coordinating rescues on the ground for 9 months in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, to a huge coordinated rescue in the aftermath of super storm Sandy, to a rescue and neutering of 1600 rabbits from a hoarding situation in Nevada, to taking in and rehabilitating 22 of Michael Vick's fighting ring Pit Bulls. Best Friends leads Puppy Mill Initiatives, Pit Bull Terrier Initiatives, Trap Neuter Return Program, Low-Cost Spay and Neuter Program, and Adoption Events around the United States. Best Friends's was the star of the National Geographic TV show called Dogtown, featuring the work the Clinic does and Dogtown Caregivers do, and all the strides the dogs make toward rehabilitation and adoption.

Genevieve also volunteered at Elephant Nature Park for one vacation in Thailand. Elephant Nature Park is an elephant rescue and rehabilitation center in Northern Thailand that has been involved in dozens of rescues that have created their thriving elephant herd. The park provides a natural environment for elephants, dogs, cats, buffaloes and many other animals under their care. Volunteers and visitors contribute to the healing while learning about their lives past and present. There she fed the elephants their meals of fresh veggies, fruits, herbs and greens, and bathed the elephants the river. Under the education of founder "Lek" and her staff, she became a lifelong elephant ambassador. The park has received numerous awards from institutions including the Smithsonian. The founder was named Asian Hero of the Year by Time magazine in 2005 and the park has been featured in many international publications including National Geographic magazine as well as feature documentaries from respected film production companies – Discovery Channel, National Geographic, Animal Planet, BBC, CNN, KTV, RAI, major Thai language TV channels, printed press and radio stations.

Genevieve worked for 2 years as the sole veterinary technician for NYC's premiere house call veterinary practice, Village House Call Vet, under vet and owner Dr. Carolyn Quagliata, DVM, CVA, taking care of pets (and their loving families) in their own homes. Together, they performed annual check-ups (including blood, urine and fecal collection for lab evaluation), vaccines and titers, microchip implantation, diagnosis and treatment of medical issues, administration of oral, subcutaneous and intramuscular medication, acupuncture and at-home euthanasia service. Dr. Quagliata of Village House Call Vet was the official vet at the "Ask a Vet" table at Best Friends Animal Society's NYC Strutt Your Mutt for a couple years and at the transport reception of the one thousandth puppy mill dog rescued through Best Friends' Pup My Ride. Village House Call Vet also has a booth at the Annual NYC Pet Expo.

Genevieve then moved to southern Utah to become the very first intern in the new 4-Month Intern Program at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, the largest domestic animal sanctuary in the United States, where she was immersed in Cat World, including husbandry and medical administration. She participated in the Trap Neuter Return Program, trapping cats from an outdoor hoarding situation, a colony of cats growing too large and remaining intact. They were peaceful trapped and taken to the Clinic at Best Friends to be spayed and neutered and then returned carefully to their outdoor home. At the end of her internship, she was requested to stay on as a full time cat care giver, but she had her sights set on working at the Clinic as a vet tech.

Genevieve was offered a position as veterinary technician at the Clinic at Best Friends, where she worked for 2.25 years, performing daily medical treatments for in-house patients, including feeding meals, administering topical, oral, subcutaneous, and intramuscular medications, preparing and administering chemotherapy, performing laser treatments, working with patients with highly infectious diseases in isolation, triaging patients, running imaging such as x-rays, performing in-house lab work such as microscopic examination of blood, urine and feces, preparing patients for surgery by setting catheters and administering anesthesia, monitoring patient vital signs under anesthesia and assisting the vets in surgery, and recovering patients post-operatively, assisting and monitoring anesthesia weekly for cat and dog dental surgeries plus several marathon dental weekends for a regularly visiting group of board certified dentists from San Diego and for advanced surgeries with a routinely visiting board certified surgeon.

After a few months at the Clinic, Genevieve was elected to also be the visiting vet tech 3 mornings per week for the Rabbit Department at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary for 2 years. Each visit, she spent hours administering topical, oral, subcutaneous, and intramuscular medications, performing ear cleanings and nasolacrimal duct flushes, examining and monitored patients, handling patients and giving patient histories for the visiting veterinarians, calculating drugs to be administered, documenting prescriptions, facilitating emergencies, acting as liaison between the Rabbit Department and the main Clinic, running imaging such as x-rays, drawing blood, expressing bladders, performing lab work, and educating care givers on medical administration. Genevieve has loved being an animal nurse so much that she decided to stay in this capacity rather than going to veterinary school.

Genevieve lives in southern Utah with her amazing partner Ron, who was the beloved Volunteer Coordinator and Horse Care Giver at Horse Haven at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary for almost 10 years. They are the proud parents to a tightly-knit family of dogs, cats and rabbits, all of whom are super affectionate, funny, intelligent, and get along great with each other - totally bonded! Genevieve runs her voice over business from her professional home studio, and Ron and Genevieve perform music at concerts and events for the hundreds of international tourists who come to southern Utah. Genevieve has owned and run a pet sitting service from the start, to care for family's beloved pets in their humans' absence, with a huge heart, giving both animals and their families peace of mind.  Furry family...

CHILDREN

Charlie

Bernese Mountain Dog
Bernese Auction Rescue Coalition, Inc. (BARC, Inc.)
Missouri puppy mill/auction rescue
April 12, 2017

Ron and I adopted our Charlie Hannon Jones, who is the best fit in the world for our family - thank you again to Bernese Auction Rescue Coalition, Inc. (BARC) for rescuing him, and to Lisa Florin and Jonny Greco for adopting him to us! He loves his furry siblings, dogs and cats alike, and they adore him! And he's a real Momma's and Daddy's boy and he's BFFs with his Berner sister, Emma. When we lived in Kanab, Utah, for 5 yrs of his life, from 1 to 6 years old, and now again in year 8 onward, in red rock canyon country, he has adored his K Trail hikes right out our back door, jumping up on the first bench when I’d say, “Show Dog!” and sitting in the shade of the trees on the way back down. He’ll still do Show Dog on anything. He is awesome with other dogs and cats and rabbits in his home - they are his family, and is super friendly with all people, rolling on his back on their feet! He really adores his K Trail hikes and sitting in the shade of the trees on the way back down. He is awesome with other dogs and cats and is super confident with all people. Our neighbors’ dogs and even one cat and our dogs all play outside every evening after their dinners and they all get along perfectly. Our neighbors’ dogs, my petsitting dogs and even one cat all play outside with our dogs and they all get along perfectly. He hangs out in my studio while I do my voice overs - my “studio dog”. He crosses his front paws like a little gentleman. He loves his stuffies and carrying his "Baby" (Berner stuffies or any stuffy) when he goes hiking or driving. He also loves to carry something in his mouth going downstairs or out of the bedroom in the morning, like a stuffy or dirty laundry. That all started in an effort to get him to not bark so loudly going down the stairs in our Kanab home and outside, too, to be polite to our neighbors, but he just loves to do it now. He hangs out in my studio while I do my voice overs - my ‘studio dog’. He crosses his front paws like a little gentleman. He is boisterous and funny and smart and super handsome. He is also super affectionate and has to be so close at all times - no personal space allowed! Ron calls him my shadow - he has to be with Momma all the time. He lies right around my head in bed and licks me to wake me up and then wrestles in bed with Emma every morning. He also loves to lie down at Ron’s feet under the coffee table and always manages to bang his noggin on the table when he wakes up suddenly. He makes the funniest sounds when he sees a furry friend or one of us coming home - a sort of high pitched, howling, dynamic song. And he sometimes howls at me when he’s excited, exclaiming, “Ah woo woo woo!” He is also super affectionate and has to be so close at all times - no personal space allowed! He lies right around my head in bed and licks me to wake me up and then wrestles in bed with Emma every morning. He makes the funniest sounds when he sees out the front window a furry friend or Ron coming home from work - a sort of high pitched, howling, dynamic song. He loves all food and especially his peanut butter bones after meals. He loves all food - highend canine raw, crunchies with raw boost, and canned food, pre-spiced raw meats when we’re cooking, bananas, dried cranberries, basically everything - and especially his all natural peanut butter spoonful after meals. And every morning when Ron brings upstairs coffee and crunchies, Charlie dutifully sits by me in bed and waits for his crunchies when we say, “Places!” And after he and Emma eat their crunchies appetizers in bed, they love to eat organic bananas with us! And then we snuggle some more on me. And the two of them would spin around and wrestle in bed! He adores his ‘sister wife’ as Ron called her and Emma would actually get on him quite willfully to have sex when she went into heat twice yearly (she had her ovaries still for the natural hormone benefits, but otherwise spayed and couldn’t get pregnant) and she’d paw at him and whimper when he’d lie down to rest in between sessions! He’s a huge hearted love bug! Charlie is such a little bear, at 85 lbs, and so sweet and loving. He jumps up and down so much and is so ‘bull in a China shop’ that he gets a occasional mild strain, so call him ‘Limpety Boochamoob’ after the Liberty Mutual ‘Struggling Actor’ commercial. In year 7 in our home in San Miguel de Allende, he was friends with our neighbors dog across the way and loved to walk down our road and run around Park Zeferino with his sister Emma. He adored his huge backyard there and just loved to roll on his back in the dirt and adored romping with his sister, Emma (BARC) who was almost 11. Our sweet son! We love you so much, Charlie, our Charch, our Charner!!

SPIRIT CHILDREN

Emma

Bernese Mountain Dog
Bernese Auction Rescue Coalition, Inc. (BARC, Inc.)
Kansas puppy mill/Missouri auction rescue
May 13, 2013 - December 13, 2024

Ron and I adopted our beautiful soul daughter Emma from the awesome rescue group to which we belong, BARC (Bernese Auction Rescue Coalition), a formidable group of volunteers who love Berners and rescue, transport, foster, rehab and adopt Berners from the horrors of puppy mills. Emma was 4 months old when she was rescued along with 14 other Berners from a mill in Missouri and transported to foster care with Cheryl and Gary in OKC and then Susan in Santa Fe, where we drove on September 13, 2013 to meet her along with our 12 year old BARC rescue Rosie. She was so sweet and shy, her littermate brother would bring their toys to her in her dog bed. We bonded instantly with her, sleeping with her in bed and then driving home to Kanab for 8 hours with her in my lap. Immediately she jumped in our bed at home and made herself the queen of the house. Emma has bonded deeply with our dogs Charlie, Rosie, Kodi and Scuba, and our cats Maggie, Sydney, Lola and Otis, and our rabbits Ruby and Bobbo, Wally and Wilbur. She is a very motherly girl, bathing me constantly - full on arm, back, neck and face baths! What a sweet, caring girlie! Due to her ovary-sparing spay by Drs. Tara and Trisha due to the remaining ovaries' hormones as slow-bone-growth-protecting and cancer-reducing properties, Em goes into heat twice yearly for a couple weeks. She adores her brother Charlie and actually gets on him quite willfully to have sex during those weeks, and will paw at and dry hump him if he lays down to rest in between sessions! Then a couple months later, after her false pregnancy, she delivers her puppies, which are her Bernese stuffies, which she carefully carries around the house whimpering, bringing them to bed and up onto the couch, digging in the couch to make her den for them. She also fills up with some milk in her teets and digs at me to rub her belly (nurse). She loves to sleep with us at night, surround my head in the morning and kiss my face to walk me up, do zoomies around and around in circles in our bed, jump up onto the bed sideways like a hover craft (we call her 'Lover Craft'), chew on us softly with her 'Alinganor' teeth, run up to us wiggling her head and smiling with her teeth. Emmie loves to sleep with us at night, surround my head in the morning and kiss my face to wake me up. She loves to have Ron's service in bed we call 'Coffee and Crunchies' aka 'the Cs' and eat crunchies with Charlie and share a banana, apple, pear or watermelon with us. She has such a cute song she sings - when she's ready for us to wake up and when she's ready for a meal or a hike - kind of a goose honk. She loves to ride in the car, perch on the pillows on "her" couch, lick our plates clean, lick us clean, snuggle on the couch and watch movies, lie on the cool tiles of our house, lie upside down with her belly up and paws in the air, grow out her Grinch feet fur on her paws, get scratches on her 'curly butt' when I sing 'Curly butt, curly butt, curly butt butt butt' (to the William Tell Overture), wrestle and stretch and pounce me in bed to our game 'Are You A Goose or A Dog?', run errands with me and get cookies at the bank's drive up window and chicken nuggets at Wendy's, shake her head and sneeze when she's excited to see us, and cry with excitement in my arms on the couch especially when I come home after being out for a while, which we call 'we're crying', and generally be a total spaz and a very, very good girl! She loves to rear up and jump for joy at meal time, zoom around the front yard like a speed demon, take daily morning hikes with me and her brother Scuba and her brother Charlie up the K Trail - her favorite activity in the world - where my little athlete runs at full speed and jumps off the hills effortlessly, watch-dog passers-by at our big front window, run to greet Daddy when he gets home from work, ride in the car, lounge across the back of the couch looking out the window, climb on the back of the couch to get attention, lick our plates clean, romp in the Virgin River at Zion National Park, snuggle on the couch and watch movies, lie on the cool tiles of the hearth, grow out her Grinch feet fur on her paws, eat her rabbit brother Bobbo's poop, wrestle and stretch in bed, and generally be a total spaz! Em adores her brother Charlie and actually gets on him quite hilariously willfully to have sex when she goes into heat twice yearly (she has her ovaries still for the natural hormone benefits, but otherwise was spayed and cannot get pregnant = ovary-sparing spay by Dr. Tara and Dr. Trisha at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary where I was a tech). She'll will paw at him and whimper if he lies down to rest in between sessions! And she'll get very motherly around 8 weeks after her heat, digging in the yard and in the bed and the couch, preparing her den for her babies, her milk will drop, she'll mother me and especially my feet, which become her babies, and her and Charlie's stuffies, carrying them around while whimpering, and she'll get growly with Charlie for a few weeks, protecting her litter after her imaginary pregnancy. She's a very good mommy! She has such a cute song she sings when she's ready for us to wake up and when she's ready for dinner or a hike, kind of a goose honk. Emma's a Momma's girl and a Daddy's girl. She was the adorable ring bearer at our wedding! She's super intelligent and loving and funny, has a great sense of humor wagging her tail at funny things we say, and when she's super excited she curls up her lip, crinkles her muzzle and smiles with her teeth as she wiggles her head! When she gets really happy and excited, her left ear curls up. She lifts her leg for belly rubs and rolls on her back on the couch, burying her face and yelpin in a high pitch, flirting with us! And she's the family queen bee, matriarch and protector. She will bark at people and other dogs through the windows (and she stops when we tell her it’s ok), and is an excellent watch dog, a discerning greeter of people with whom she's unfamiliar, watching them from a few feet away and sneaking sniffs up close, and then, once she knows you, she's a total love bug mush forever! She is great with other dogs, cats and rabbits, her own siblings and all others she meets included, and gentle and sweet with children and all people. She lights up our hearts and souls and we are so over the moon in love with her! She is the most joyful and sweetest daughter! She's super intelligent and loving and funny, has a great sense of humor wagging her tail at funny things we say, and when she's super excited she curls up her lip, crinkles her muzzle and smiles with her teeth as she wiggles her head! And she's a family protector. In year 11 in our home in San Miguel de Allende, she was friends with our neighbors dog across the way and loved to walk down our road and run around Park Zeferino with her brother Charlie. She adored her huge backyard there. She also loved being back in Kanab for the last two weeks of her life, hiking the K Trail for the last couple times. She lights up our hearts and souls and we are so over the moon in love with her! She is the most joyful and sweetest dog! Our sweet Emma, our Love Berry, Shrimpboat, Shrimby, Shrim, Pignion, Pignioni, Goose, Gooseberry Crunch, Emsa, Emsie, Em, Prinness, Prin, Flirty Lady, my heart and soul! She is the most joyful dog! She lights up our hearts and souls and we are so over the moon in love with her! We love you, our sweet Emma.

Sydney

Tortoiseshell
North Shore Animal League kitten rescue
Petco adoption event
February 3rd, 2006-July 9, 2023

Our adorable, sweet tortie Sydney! She is one of our 4 cats, one of 3 girls I adopted in 2006 when they were kittens. Syd is the sweetest girl, super smart, beautiful, funny, talkative, actually she chirps, loves to do come-unders (under the covers every night for some camping), chases her tail before breakfast, is a big lap warmer, snuggle bunny, very soulful, loving. She fiercely defends any perch she's taken over and is particular about the litter boxes being no less than pristine. She loves her dogs too and will rub on them and groom them with enthusiasm. Syd is the sweetest girl, super smart, beautiful, funny, and talkative, actually she chirps sometimes and meows, “Mom”, and she’s always purring. She loves to do 'come-unders' (under the covers every night for some camping) and is her daddy Ron's foot warmer all night in bed. She chases her tail before breakfast and prefers the dog crunchies to any other food - we call her "Crunchies Lady". She is a big lap warmer, snuggle bunny, very soulful, and super loving. She fiercely defends any perch she's taken over and is particular about the litter boxes being no less than pristine, sometimes choosing to poop in the tub or shower if I miss a day of scooping all the boxes - she keeps me on my game. Sydney loves lying up on our bed in the sunlight all day and hanging out with us on the couch for movies at night. She adores her dogs, Emma and Charlie, rubbing on them, and was super close with all her past canine siblings, Henry, Scuba, Rosie and Kodi. She’s great with her new bunny brothers, Wally and Wilbur - she has had bunnies in her life for most of it, with her past siblings Bobbo and Ruby. She misses her feline brother and sisters who were all together from kittenhood, with Otis crossing 3 yrs ago and Maggie and Lola crossing last year. She’s now is the only kitty, but is doing super well. We love you Syd!! Chirper! My little imp!

Lola

White calico
North Shore Animal League kitten rescue
Petco adoption event
March 3, 2006-October 6, 2022

Our beautiful, sweet, loving daughter Lola is one of our 4 cats, one of 3 girls I adopted in 2006 when they were kittens. Former opera singer or saloon girl in her last life - Lola has a giant set of lungs - at least it seems that way when she sings throughout the house! My Lola is a doll too - such a sweetheart, outgoing and submissive rolled into one, vocal, athletic and voluptuous, loving, affectionate, Mary's little lamb - follows you around, super soft and shiny, will eat anything from raw cat food to apricot juice, cries for a drop of cow's milk after cereal, healthy, happy, funny, smart, Lola. She loves to stay up late and do household projects while everyone else sleeps. She's an 11-pounder with a great figure and a deep chest and big bones. And she loves to go belly up for rubs with her legs spread, so she may have also been a pin up girl in a past life! I love you, Lolie!!

Maggie

Black calico
North Shore Animal League kitten rescue
Petco adoption event
March 3, 2006-July 6, 2022

Our beautiful, sweet, loving daughter, Maggie Moo. She was rescued in 2006 along with Lola and Sydney, and the 3 became “Otie’s Angels". She was hanging upside down in her adoption cage at Petco in NYC from North Shore Animal League, saying 'take me on for your crazy red cat Otis as his companion'. It was evident that she was not only fun, lively, athletic and smart, but sweet and would soon be a totally lap cat as well. Mags is the nurse maid to the other kitties when they need it and also knows when I or Ron have an ache and will sit on that part of the body - we think she was a nurse in her last life. She is very sensitive and intelligent and gorgeous. Very social too. She is the great neutralizer. Additionally, she loves dogs and is super sweet with all dog she meets and absolutely adores our dog Scuba and sleeps with him, absolutely sticks by him, and he loves her right back! She is super affectionate with dogs, cats, humans, and rabbits. She sleeps with us every night and loves lying on her daddy Ron’s lap during movies. Her favorite woobie is a fuzzy blanket that she can suckle on (weened a bit early or just simply a lover?). She's a caring soul. I love you Maggie!!

Otis

Orange tabby
Kitty Kind kitten rescue
Animal Kind Vet Hospital adoption
May 3, 2005-May 4, 2020

Our handsome, sweet, lovebug Otis. I adopted Otie from my friend Anne back in 2005 one Wednesday evening with my Mom along for the ride at the Animal Kind Vet Hospital in Brooklyn. We fell in love right away! Otis is a super lover red cat, a total momma's boy and he adores his dad Ron so very much! He is the king of the house and loves his three feline sisters. He adores his dogs too! He's very handsome, smart, funny, outgoing, loving, playful, talkative, feisty and affectionate. He loves to walk on leash and roll around in the sunshine outside. He plays fetch with crumpled up paper balls. He's a hugger and a morning bedtime snuggler and a head butter. He's also the best alarm clock in the morning you could ever ask for. I am so proud of you Otie! Happy 14th Birthday and almost 14th anniversary with me! I love you, Otie!!

Scuba

Mexican terrier mix
Cozumel Humane Society
Street dog rescue
May 10, 2005-October 25, 2019

Scuba and I met in May 2006 in his birthplace, Cozumel, Mexico, where I was SCUBA diving with friends and earning my open water dive cert. We were donning our equipment to do a shore dive when I saw him crossing the street from the beach toward the houses and thought he was really cute, as all the street dogs there are. A few minutes later, we heard the screeching of brakes and a loud yelp. He had tried to cross the road back toward the beach and got hit by a jeep. The jeep stopped and people were concerned as we all watched him push himself across the road on his chin and belly using his hind legs, as his forearms were hurt. My dive master Blanca Garcia asked if I wanted to go to him and I did. I sat down 10 feet from him on the beach and called to him. He pushed himself over to me and laid the side of his head down in my lap. From that moment on, he had stolen my heart. Blanca called the Humane Society on the island to pick him up. A few days later, I went to visit him at the Cozumel HS and speak to the vet Dr. Ivan. Ivan had him in a crate to rest and told me he would not be able to xray his arms for another week as they'd run out of x-ray film. I offered that I was returning to the US in a few days and could take him with me and have him seen there. So Ivan gave him his vaccines and dewormer and created his travel documents which I took to the Continental Airlines office in town and booked his passage. Trouble is they couldn't get him on my flight, so an American expat who volunteers and funds the Cozumel HS took him to the airport 2 days after I left and got him on the plane, he magically changed planes in Houston, and landed at midnight in Newark, NJ. When we saw each other, we were both beside ourselves with joy! He remembered me! The next day, my wonderful vet and friend Carolyn Quagliata xrayed Scuba and determined he had a scapular fracture of one arm and that the other arm was badly bruised, but nothing was broken. The only treatment was pain meds and rest for two months. She recommended I take him to a neurologist and I did - Dr. Joseph who is awesome and who determined he was going to be ok. I promised to "find him a great home" once he was healed. And I did. Scuba lived for 14.5 years and healthy throughout until one morning he had two debilitating grand mal seizures, so we rushed him to the Clinic and crossed him in our arms. He was super affectionate, smart, kind, loving toward his kitty siblings who adored him (especially his BFF Maggie who was always snuggling with him and also Sydney), his late rabbit sibling Bobbo who loved to lie with him, and his dog siblings throughout the years. He was respectful toward his bigger Bernese Mt Dog siblings from Henry to Rosie to Emma to Charlie, as well as Ron's Kodi, who were all alpha to him. Rosie was like a mom to him and Emma a big kid sister to him. He was a humper - dogs small and large - and a jumper - he very badly wanted to be taller. He’d whimper in the car with excitement to go places. And when you’d say, "Where's Grandmom?" about my Mom, he’d go nuts with excitement! He loved hiking and running with Emma and kept up with her pretty well. He loved sleeping with us at night in bed. He was bilingual and knows some tricks/commands in Spanish! He still would lie the side of his face down in our laps just like he did on day 1. We love you, Scuba!

Bobbo

New Zealand White
Rabbit Rescue & Rehab rescue
February 14, 2008-January 2017
Story coming soon!

Ruby

New Zealand White
Rabbit Rescue & Rehab rescue
February 14, 2009-July 5, 2015
Story coming soon!

Kodi
Black Lab/Malamute Cross
Utah adoption
April 2001-December 2013
Story coming soon!

 Rosie

Bernese Mountain Dog
Bernese Auction Rescue Coalition, Inc. (BARC, Inc.)
Oklahoma Amish backyard breeder/Kansas auction rescue
September 13, 2001-Septmber 30, 2013
Story coming soon!

Henry

King Henry Hannon v Bev's
Bernese Mountain Dog
Breeder Beverly Burney
November 23, 1996-May 14, 2007
Story coming soon!