The Pack Pet Services

03/20/2024

03/18/2024

2Chicks And A Farm, LLC

We are live on HipFarm offering rustic camping.

Camp toilet and shower provided. Potable water for free (just bring your own containers.

Fire rings.

A Farmhouse breakfast and / or smoked meats are available for an extra fee.

Camping starts from $30 a night.

02/28/2024

Yep 🙂

01/08/2024

Working from home.

Getting ready to run Payroll, but sitting here loving the view.

You can’t ever have too many dogs!

12/25/2023

Merry Christmas to all our clients, two legged, four legged and finned!

12/13/2023

I finally added the ‘dog extension’ to my king sized bed. I have five that sleep inside, three of which are labs.

My other two ‘mini polar bears’, the Great Pyrenees that guard the livestock, would much rather be outside, and humour me when I put them up in the pole barn.

11/23/2023

We are thankful for all our clients, human and animal. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

11/07/2023

❤️

11/07/2023

I’m so behind on welcoming new clients. Sharing photos of clients who have been with us for awhile.

It’s been a year.

In April I started feeling not so good. May worse. June I was just keeping the farm afloat. Making sure everyone had food and water.

The Hoop House, on my farm and all my dreams of vegetables and flowers got out of control.

I spent my 55th birthday in the hospital with a blood sugar of 600 and then diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes.

They did a PET scan because I’d lost so much weight so quickly. A suspect lymph node and a biopsy later. All clear for three months.

I have another PET scan this month. And I have another questionable lump in the breast I still have. Oh and an auto immune rash.

I also have five beautiful baby boy goats. And one Momma still due this month. So if you know anyone that needs a Buck, or wants a pet goat.

In Iraq we had this saying, “You can’t make this s**t up!”

I’m getting ready to go into the Hoop House and plant some seeds that will soon grow into something that will feed people. How amazing is that!

06/18/2023

To all our fathers out there, of humans and pets.

06/06/2023

Just a reminder as the temperatures increase. If the ground is too hot for you to keep you hand on for multiple seconds, it’s too hot for your dogs paws.

05/14/2023

Happy Mothers Day to all the Moms of human and animal kids. We love you all.

03/23/2023

Happy National Puppy Day to all The Pack Pet Services Pups!

01/12/2023

I loved serving in the US Air Force. Loved my job as a Program Manager. But, I knew when I retired I wasn’t going to continue in that field as a civilian.

I could have transferred to a civilian career. But, I another (much less lucrative), career I wanted to pursue. I laugh when I crunch the numbers, but I smile everyday because we get to provide services every day to clients that are in need like I used to be. And, I get to employ an amazing group of staff so they can do a job they love to do.

I still ‘work’24/7-365! But it’s because all our great staff do their ‘jobs’ so well that we always have clients (existing and new), trusting us with one of, if not the, most precious thing in their lives.

01/12/2023

PetPocketBook, our online portal provider has The Pack Pet Services as their January Client Spotlight.

We hired these guys Oct 2021 when we were growing too big for Julie to keep track of staff and schedules by pen and paper.

Little did we know then, that we would triple in size in the next year and that would have not been possible without them.

This is a young company. With young professionals living their dream of making a difference in the tech world. it is both a privilege and exciting to be part of their growth journey.

As for the photo below. This is Louis, the leader of my poultry pack the day I had to get them all blood tested to make the big move from Delaware to Michigan. He’s the first one out of the coop in the morning and won’t go in at night until all the others have. Love this dude.

Learn how Julie Graham, owner of The Pack Pet Services grew her business to over 350 clients and saw a 60% increase in sales with the help of PetPocketbook.

01/06/2023

One of our staff members Joslyn has found this ‘stray’ cat in Seaford. He’s extremely affectionate and looks well cared for, but no tags or microchip.

We’d love to reunite him with his family, or find him a new one.

Please share.

12/25/2022

Happy Christmas to all our clients, human and animal.

12/23/2022

Day 23!

12/23/2022

Hello from a snowy and cold Southwest Michigan!

The geese and ducks are loving the blizzard weather. As are a couple of the chickens!

It’s comfy, cozy in the barn for the goats, barn cats and livestock guardian dogs.

We’re stocked up on food for all the animals and humans.

The portable generator is tested and ready to go if necessary, but fortunately still have power.

The bathtub is full is water, again in case we lose power. We’re in a well, so we would lose access to water if we lose power, and the animals don’t stop getting thirsty and the toilets still need flushing!

We have both a gas grill and a Solo Stove that burns wood. So again if we loose power, we can make hot drinks and food.

Every towel, blanket and piece of bedding is washed.

The truck is fully gassed up.

The neighbours and our farm hand and family know that if they lose power they are welcome here, pets and all.

One thing I’ve learned in my years in tge Air Force, and reinforced living here, you can never be too prepared.

This is why we ask our clients to fully populate PetPocketBook with Care and Feeding instructions for our pack members.

Stay warm and safe everyone.

Julie, Halena and their pack.

12/13/2022

I was in Iraq, 12 years ago when ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ was repealed. I’d served 18 and a half years in fear of losing my right to serve because I was gay.

Today I breath another sign of relief. For me, and for all those like me who just want to love who they love.

Proponents of the legislation argued that Congress needed to be proactive in ensuring a future Supreme Court would not invalidate same-sex marriages around the country.

12/13/2022

This was a very close second. Though we’d have to change the words to ‘Heads Lower’ and Heads ‘Upper’. It’s a Michigan thing.

JoDee was going to take me to California, and life took me to Michigan!

Still shaking my head 🙂

Cole Swindell and Jo Dee Messina perform 'She Had Me at Heads Carolina' live at 'The 56th Annual CMA Awards' WED NOV 9 on ABC and Streaming Next Day on Hulu.

12/13/2022

My twin Lucy and I have been picking our individual song of the year for more years than I can count now.

I’m usually right up to the wire. But this years, I’ve had this one picked out since the summer.

I think it talks both to the older steady platonic (family) love in my live, as well as to the never romantic love.

I love you Lucy. You wil always be my other heartbeat.

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12/13/2022

Today our client David let us know of the passing of his believed Bones.

I had to take awhile, take a walk on my own and cry some tears before being able to post this.

Bones and his brother Boogie were some of my first clients, back in early 2021, when it was just me.

Chill, laid back, even lazy. While Boogie is the exact opposite. But they worked together.

Some days walks with Bones felt like encouraging him eveostep of the way. Others, he’d get into it (like the day I took this photo) and we’d cruise.

Bones developed diabetes a feed months ago. He went blind shortly after. We had the privilege of taking care of him (and the rest of the family) again last month.

The beauty of doing this, is I get to live and love a little of all your pets. The hard part is I get to mourn saying goodbye when ever we loose one.

But the love way outweighs the lose. That’s why we, as pet parents keep doing this, and why I (and we), as the Pack Pet Services, do what we do.

Thank you David for sharing Bones with us. He will forever be a part of the pack.