Ashton’s Pet Sitting Services

07/08/2024

A busy few weeks with the sweetest babies 🫶🏻

06/23/2024

If you need me, I will be right here in my happy place! Signing off to soak up this week with my babies 🫶🏻 Much needed break!

06/21/2024

Summer was off to a busy start! Just a few of the many sweet faces I have gotten to love on 🥰🫶🏻 Thank you all for trusting me and letting me love on your sweet babies.

04/02/2024

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03/28/2024

One of the busiest weeks! Some fur babies not pictured but here is a snippet of a few. Surviving on caffeine this week 🤣
All jokes aside, so thankful for my wonderful clients trusting me with their babies 🫶🏻🫶🏻

03/14/2024

This girl has my whole heart! She has nothing but love for me when I visit her 🥰 Sweet Ellie Mae 🩷

03/03/2024

It has been a super busy 2 weeks. But so thankful 🫶🏻

Just look at all of these precious babies! 🥰

02/04/2024

Just a few of the cuties from this week/weekend 🥰 The sweetest, most precious babies 🫶🏻

01/07/2024

What corgi dreams are made of 😍 My first time caring for one. I am in corgi heaven! Her cute little corgi butt and her little sassy walk own me! 🥰

01/07/2024

Hello, my beautiful people! This is your friendly reminder to get on my books if you are planning to travel for Spring Break. Unfortunately due to the insanity last year, I will have to put a cap on how many I accept this year. I would hate for my loyal clients to miss out 🥺 so reach out soon! 😘 I book up pretty fast. 😬

*cute baby for attention 😍😉

01/02/2024

Happy new year 🎆🥳 I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and new year. I hope everyone enjoyed family time and made lots of memories. ☺️

Last month marked a year ago, that this business was born. Y’all have far exceeded my expectations on how well this business would do. It took off faster than I thought it would. Y’all have kept me business all year long. Thank you guys so much for trusting me with your fur babies. Thank you for sharing them with me and giving me the opportunity to love on them. I’m so humbled and obsessively grateful for each and every one of you! I love you all! I can’t wait to see what 2024 has in store 🫶🏻
Happiest of new years to the best clients ever! 🥳

12/23/2023

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12/21/2023

What a busy Christmas break it has been so far. So thankful for the BEST clients 🥰🫶🏻

So crazy to think, this business was born a year ago! I have met so many wonderful people and have encountered the sweetest fur babies and not so furry friends along the way. Thank you all for trusting me with your babies! I do not take it lightly. What an honor ❤️ Thank you is never enough.
So much love to allll of you! I hope each and everyone of you has a very Merry Christmas ❤️💚🎄✝️

12/08/2023

I love getting to see this sweet girl 🩷 She always welcomes me with so much love 🥰

11/23/2023

Happy Thanksgiving to ALL of my wonderful clients! I’m feeling so incredibly blessed and thankful this year for all of you! Thank you for the love and support y’all have shown me over the last 11 months. Thank you for letting me love on your fur babies! I truly without a doubt have the best clients 🫶🏻🥰
Thank you just isn’t enough but thank you so so much! I hope you all have had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family 🦃 Much love to you all 😘

11/18/2023

Not the best picture but this bengal kitty is everything! 😍 She is so beautiful and SO sweet! First time seeing one up close like this and taking care of one but I’m loving it 🥰🫶🏻

11/18/2023

Reunited with this precious baby and it feels so good 🥰🫶🏻😍

11/15/2023

It did my heart so good seeing these sweet, handsome boys today 🥰 These 2 were clients before this business was ever started… The OG’s! Love these sweet babies so much 🫶🏻

11/12/2023

I have thoroughly enjoyed my time with this sweet baby for the past 3 days 🥰 He is so well mannered. So human like 🥺🩵 And SO much fun! Loved watching him have the time of his life this morning.

If you want a good laugh, follow in the comments 👇🏼😂

11/12/2023

If you like to treat your pups around the holidays 🫶🏻

11/09/2023

Y’all!!!!! 😍😍😍 Look at this sweet baby! I’m swooning over him! And just look at those ears! He’s giving me all the Bella vibes 😭 Bella was my first Yorkie of 11 years that was my baby and my whole heart 🫶🏻 but we lost her tragically back in 2020 💔

Completely obsessed with this cutie 🩵

11/09/2023

Cuteness overload 😍🥰🫶🏻

10/30/2023

My day is full of the sweetest babies 🫶🏻 So much LOVE 🥰

10/27/2023

I know I haven’t posted much on here in quite awhile. I have been so busy that I’m just trying to keep up these days. While also trying to find a balance between work life, mom life/home life… but that’s so hard to do! I salute all of you working mommas!🫸🏼🫷🏻

With all that being said, I wanted to express my heartfelt gratitude to the ones that are always recommending me to any and everyone, tagging me in posts looking for dog sitting services and all of the kind words you have sent my way 🫶🏻 I truly appreciate each and every one of you. Some of you are constantly recommending me but don’t have pets, that means so much to me. I’m so humbled! I’m so very grateful! I can never thank you all enough! This business would not be what it is today without all of you! I have had amazing support from the start which has completely blown me away! 🥺 Not everyone is so blessed when stepping out on faith with a new business venture but you all welcomed me with open arms. 🥰

I can’t believe December will mark ONE year since I took the plunge to start this business but I’m so thankful I did! So much love and gratitude in my heart 🩷 You all are AMAZING! So much LOVE to each of you for making this business what it is today. 🥹🫶🏻

I hope everyone has a blessed holiday season! Stay safe! And don’t forget to book your pets with me 😉 I am filling up fast for thanksgiving and Christmas 😬

To my amazing clients, thank you for being so loyal! For sharing your pets with me. Allowing me to love on them. And for allowing your precious babies to be my emotional support/therapy when I needed it most 🥹🥰🫶🏻

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! 🧡

10/20/2023

The cutest thing ever! Can any of you get your pups to do this!? I dare you! 😆 Tag me if you do 🫶🏻

11.2M likes, 39.7K comments. “Embracing my role as Ricky’s backup dancer”

10/15/2023

🚨PSA🚨
Rawhide chews are not christmas gifts; they are unplanned ER vet visits just waiting to happen!
They are terrible for dogs but stores sell them because people keep buying them. Rawhide are harmful from processing with irritating chemicals, the small choking hazard pieces, the swallowed piece sits in the stomach and irritates your dogs stomach for months or forms a complete blockage from a big piece or several smaller pieces clumping together in the dogs intestines.

Canine intestinal blockage or foreign body surgery costs about 2-3k in this area to treat an obstruction. That $7 candy cane rawhide doesn't look so cute now, does it?

These are the most common rawhide risks:

Contamination. As with pet toys, rawhide chews can contain trace amounts of toxic chemicals. And, as with other pet (or human) foods, Salmonella or E. coli contamination is possible. Even humans can be at risk when coming into contact with these bacteria on rawhide treats.

Digestive irritation. Some dogs are simply sensitive or allergic to rawhide or other substances used in their manufacture processes. This can cause problems, including diarrhea and vomiting.

Choking or blockages. Rawhide bones and other edible chews can pose a choking and blockage risk. In fact, this is a much bigger risk than contamination or digestive irritation. If your dog swallows large pieces of rawhide, the rawhide can get stuck in the esophagus or other parts of the digestive tract. Depending on its size and where it is located, a local vet may be able to remove these pieces fairly easily through the throat. But sometimes, abdominal surgery is needed to remove them from the stomach or intestines. If it isn’t resolved, a blockage can lead to death.

It doesn't take much. Similar to the way small pieces of hair clog a drain, the small pieces of rawhide can clump and block your dog similar to the various items pictured in the first photo below. This is usually a hard thing to diagnose because rawhide is skin. Xrays don't show skin very well so usually a contrast study with barium is needed. Typically a barium study runs $500-900 in this area. Once the blockage is found then the surgery or endoscopic retrieval can be done. The best case scenario is your dog is puking and pooping out the pieces and this can be painful it there's a pointed piece that injures the tissues on its way out.

Please save your dog some pain and yourself hours waiting at an emergency clinic and thousands of dollars.

Don't buy rawhide.

https://pets.webmd.com/dogs/rawhide-good-or-bad-for-your-dog

10/14/2023

Be like Crew and stop to smell the roses from time to time 😉

10/03/2023

LOVE this 🩵🐾🩵

Splash Pad will close to the public October 1, 2023.
We are excited to announce we are opening the Splash Pad for our fur babies! Please note the specific days, times and size of dog will be the same as dog park requirements. We can't wait to see you there! Please only well behaved dogs that are spayed/neutered and up to date on all vaccines.

Dog Days at the Splash Pad
Tuesday, Oct 3, 3pm-5pm Small dogs
Tuesday, Oct 3, 5pm-7pm Large dogs

Thursday, Oct 5, 3pm-5pm Large dogs
Thursday, Oct 5, 5pm-7pm Small dogs

Sunday, Oct 8, 11am-1pm Small dogs
Sunday, Oct 8, 1pm-3pm Large dogs

09/29/2023

Cats AND dogs allowed to roam:

As a rescuer, you have asked me to search and help locate your cat who is allowed to roam. He goes out after dinner, but he's always home before dark. Always. Until he doesn't. I have searched.

Sadly, I am now at your door with some very sad news. I have found......the remains of your cat. Since seeing this over and over, I can say he was killed by a Coyote, as they are more plentiful in your neighborhood. However, could have been a Fisher. They eviscerate their prey. Usually, not much is left to identify, but in this case, the face was clearly visible for ID purposes.

At this point, you are crying and in pain. Yes, I have compassion for that.... but if I am honest, my sadness, pain and pity is for your cat. It was the cat that had to endure being stalked and killed in a fairly vicious manner. It's rarely a quick death. Some cats put up a decent fight, but in most cases....the battle is lost. Imagine the terror they must endure. They are not aware of this danger when YOU let them outside and allow them to freely roam. Yet YOU are aware. You have to be. With all the education, postings, notices that are put out on all types of sites on Facebook and other social media's.... you have to be aware of that fact. And you still open the door.... and put them outside.

Yes, there are some cats that simply cannot be kept indoors. However. There are other methods of letting them out and keeping them secure. Catios. Harness, leash. If you have a large screened in porch? Replace the screening with pet screening, add some enrichment for the cat, i.e.: cat tree's, toys, games.... You have now protected your pet.

GPS collars are not protection. Let me say this louder so the people way down in the back can hear. GPS COLLARS ARE NOT PROTECTION!! Do you think a Coyote or Fisher could care if your cat has a GPS device around it's neck? Makes no difference to them.... I have found many collars in my time... break aways, and some ripped off. I have found "kill sites."

Coyotes, particularly, are living amongst us. We are encroaching on their living spaces/lands, so our backyards are becoming their hunting grounds. And, if we continually supply them with cats allowed to roam... well... the outcome could be devasting for those cats. And sometimes, you'll just never ever know what happened. One evening, they just never return again. No signs, no sightings, no nothing. Gone.

But sadly.... I am here at your door... telling you all this. While we are talking, your other cat runs past us to the outdoors. I look at you. Through your tears, you tell me, yes... she is allowed to be outside too. And after all I have just told you.... after all the tears.....after knowing how your poor cat was ripped apart for food.... you are still going to allow your cat(s) to roam. But you love them. Really??? Love is not allowing your animal to roam and become bait or succumb to any of the many dangers out there for cats. Love is doing whatever it takes to keep them safe. That.... that is love for your pet.

09/27/2023

I know they can’t live forever but only if they could 😭💔 I just learned that yet another client has passed on 🥺 It’s never easy losing one whether it’s yours or not. I was so attached to this sweet Angel girl. She was the BEST girl 🩷 You will be forever missed, Dixie girl. Fly high 🪽
So thankful for your mommy and daddy sharing you with me 🥰🫶🏻