Welcome to Rowdy’s Pet Resort! We offer open-play, enrichment based, boarding and daycare for large and small dogs.
Under the same ‘roof’ as Family Animal Hospital!
11/05/2025
It’s here. The LAST DOTM contest for 2025… can you believe it?! 🌲🐕
SHOW US YOUR PUPS for DECEMBER 2025!👇
•Like our page
•Post a pic of your pup in the comments
•The pic with the most likes will be our next dog of the month!
WINNER will receive a photoshoot with Andrea Wood Pet Photography and 5 digital images of your dog.
RULES:
•Your pet must have visited Rowdy’s anytime in October.
•Your pet CANNOT have won DOTM in the past 5 years.
•You must be available and willing to participate in a photo shoot in a timely manner. (Shoots must be scheduled by Nov 19th).
•Contest ends on, Nov 7th at 5pm
Good luck! ✨
11/05/2025
🍛Is your dog spending Thanksgiving with us? Treat them to their very own homemade Thanksgiving dinner!
11/05/2025
11/05/2025
🎾 Momentum Mondays- individual play time.
💅Nail Trim Tuesdays- FREE nail trim with full day of daycare.
💦 Water Wednesday- fun with the pool, hose or anything water.
🧩 Puzzle Pups- puzzle toy enrichment using treats.
🎨 Picture Perfect Paws- let your dog create a masterpiece to go home with them.
🎈Ball Pit Bonanza- rummage for treats in a ball pit.
🍿 Movie Night- popcorn and cuddles while we turn off the lights and turn on a movie. Open until 8pm for pick ups!
🐶 Smelly Saturday- new and interesting scents placed around the yard.
🦃Thanksgiving Day- CLOSED
10/31/2025
Show of hands for the costume contest winner!
Mystery Machine (Ben) 👻🎃🥳
10/31/2025
Show of hands for the costume contest winner!
Mystery Machine (Ben) 👻🎃🥳
10/31/2025
Watson & Finn😝🐾👻
10/31/2025
Bobbing for hot dogs! 😝🎃👻
10/31/2025
Who’s gonna WIN?!? 👻🎃
10/30/2025
Goodbye Echo! Send us pics from the snow! We love you sweet boy🖤
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Welcome to Rowdy's Pet Resort! This has been a dream in the making for almost 7 years. I sometimes wake up and cannot believe how lucky I am to be truly living my dream everyday! I know how important your pet is to you, and I promise myself and all of us at Rowdy's will give it our everything to make sure your pet is safe and comfortable while you are away.
As a child, my mother and I would volunteer with our golden retriever, Paige, at a home for battered women and children. When Paige passed away, I started volunteering at my local animal shelter where I counseled families that were surrendering their pets. It was there I learned a lot about animal behavior and evaluation.
When I was 21, I got a job at a dog daycare and boarding facility, Dog Day Getaway in Minnesota. I worked with a team of wonderful people and I owe many of my accomplishments to the owners and dear friends, Nicole Boe & Carey Rice. I would not be here without them.
I left Dog Day Getaway to pursue a career in veterinary medicine and got a job with a general practice veterinary hospital. In 2011 I graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Animal Science, pre-veterinary medicine. During my last semester at the UofM, I was very fortunate to have a internship at the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory. There I worked in the Primate Center with orangutans, gorillas, emperor tamrins, lemurs, spider and saki monkeys. Occasionally I would help out with the lions, tigers and snow leopards. On my last day I got a kiss from a sea lion and got to feed the polar bears! I was so blessed to have that experience, and will cherish the memories forever.
After my internship I started working for BluePearl Veterinary Partners in Minneapolis as a veterinary assistant and client care coordinator. I had previous experience in a general practice veterinary hospital, however, this was a veterinary specialty facility and had sophisticated technology like, endoscopy, ultrasound, MRI and a CT scanner to name a few. After working at BluePearl for over a year, an administrative position became available. I applied to be the Marketing and Outreach Coordinator for the Minnesota region and was offered the position, I humbly accepted.
My position as Marketing and Outreach was exciting in its own way. I was responsible for hosting veterinary events as well as handling media stories within our 2 hospitals. It even landed me on television a couple of times ;)
After working at BluePearl for two years, my husband brought me to Tampa, Florida to start our lives together. I worked for a general practice veterinary hospital, a non-profit veterinary organization as well running the non-profit veterinary hospital, Vets4Pets, Fewf!
In 2016 I left my full time job and started a business, Rowdy's on the Run, pet sitting full time in my home or caring for pets in their home. A couple of months into my new venture, my friend and former co-worker, Dr, Anna, approached me about partnering together. We met at my house over wine and tacos and Rowdy’s Pet Resort and Family Animal Hospital was born!
After months of searching for a location, we finally settled on the Apollo Beach area. We are so excited to be a part of this wonderful community and look forward to being a helpful resource for those who call it home!
