I have experience (both personal and professional) with caring for various breeds and temperaments of dogs, cats, birds, fish, and small animals. I am comfortable and experienced with giving medication, vaccinations, bathing, trimming nails, and basically anything that would possibly be needed during the time which I would care for a person's pets. I am patient, caring, passionate, and trustworthy and have always had a natural rapport with even the most unfriendly or unsure animals. I have a 2-year-old 85 pound neutered male Chesapeake Bay Retriever named "Sniper" who loves to run, jump, play and swim in his river in his backyard that he thinks is his own personal swimming pool. I have two spoiled rotten indoor cats named "Bailey" and "Lucy" who were both death row rescues from the Lee County Animal Shelter in Sanford, NC where I worked. There has never been a time period in my life which I have not had a pet of some sort. Animals are my love and my passion and my life would be incredibly empty and incomplete without doing some sort of work with animals.