10/07/2025
๐พ๐ถ Where it all began! ๐ถ๐พ
As clichรฉ as it feels to say, I've literally grown up around dogs! I was the child that would rather be outside playing with my dogs than other kids! My family used to call me "Mowgli" ๐.
We had greyhounds when I was young, they are a wonderful breed of dog and hold a special place in my heart. We then got a border collie x terrier "Skippy" (top right), a cross that now as a dog trainer/behaviourist has me asking so many questions ๐. She demonstrated pretty much every undesirable behaviour you could imagine from those two types of dog - herding, car chasing and nipping at heels! A far stretch from the gentle greyhounds!
My first dog was "Gizmo" (black/white Papillon) who I got was when I was around 11, followed by "Aniu" who I got when I was 12. These two were my heart dogs โค๏ธ.
I was set on working with animals but as I grew up I had so many people telling me I'd "never make money doing that". So I went and did something completely different, I became a registered general nurse but there was always something niggling at me, a missed opportunity that I wasn't willing to let go. In 2015 I decided to completely uproot my life and go back to uni to study animal behaviour. It was honestly one of the best decisions I've ever made ๐ฅฐ.
ALSO them 90s/00s clothes man! ๐