MillBro Critter & Home Sitters

03/12/2024

When our fluffy friends ask us for help celebrating their human's barkday, we jump at the chance and fetch some pawty hats.

01/28/2024

We are howling our hearts out over our new friends Charlie and Copper, the Chocolate Labrador brothers.

These siblings have a wag in their step and smile in their bark, and we can't get enough of these very good boys!

05/14/2023

To all moms out there, we salute you and thank you for making the world a better place with all the love and light you give to those you mother.

02/14/2023

Our senior friends like Coco hold a special place in our hearts.

They've lived full lives. They've given their humans their all. So, it's only right we give our seniors our all in their slow-down years.

We also have a knack for helping our senior friends find spurts of their inner puppy, and we feel so honored being a part of helping them relive their glory days.

Coco's smile when we help our old friend remember the joy of puppyhood says everything about our love for her and all our senior pals.

01/27/2023

Belgian Malinois Luka is so smart, WE had to learn German to communicate with this braver hund.

Thankfully, love and friendship translate in any language

11/24/2022

We just love that we're spending the day serving our special, tradition meal to our furry friends and family so their humans can gather elsewhere.

Thank you for allowing your pets to bless our lives today and every day.

Happy Thanksgiving from our pack to yours.

10/29/2022

New Client Howl-Out:

We're so jacked up over our newest clients!

It was puppy love at first sight when we met little Stella and her big brother Rooney.

Stella, a Jack Russell/West Highland Terrier mix, is a spark plug of puppy energy and lives to give puppy kisses and play. She had us wrapped around her little paw the moment we said howllo.

Rooney, a Shorty Jack Russell Terrier, loves a good lap, a tasty snack, and an occasional RUFFhouse match with his baby sister. Ever the patient big brother, we could love on this little old man for days.

Welcome to the MCHS family, Stella and Rooney. We're barky waggy you're part of our pack!

09/30/2022

When we first met Carter, he was a shy, nervous little fellow and would only take a few steps off his patio to go potty before clamoring to get back to his home.

Three years later and he's clamoring to greet us and get on his walking gear for a stroll around the block, sometimes two.

He never fails to bring a smile to our faces whenever we see him and think about how we've worked together to forge a friendship that's brought him out of his shell.

09/23/2022

One of our greatest pleasures is helping our feline friends discover their inner kitty.

01/16/2022

We just woof new additions to our existing MC & HS family!

Meet Rogue, three-month old baby sister to her big brother Gambit and already a furry, fluffy ball of fun.

She still has a little growing to do before she can take over walking big brother for us though!

07/04/2021

Well, MC & HS’ Chief Furry Officer says it best.

Happy Fourth of July to all our fellow American critters great and small.

We hope we look this good when we turn 35-dog-years-old. Lady Liberty, you carry your age well.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to pursue our little piece of freedom and success on our shining city upon the hill.

Waggy Barkday, Miss America, ma’am!

I barky waggy I able run in land of free and home of brave, and I so grateful I have pawsome life, liberty, and pawsuit of wagginess.

Have great day, please. I woof you!

06/20/2021

Happy Pawther’s Day to all dad’s everywhere. Thanks for being good boys!

05/09/2021

Happy Mother’s Day to all mom’s of all species everywhere.

The bond moms have with their babies is such a special one, and we at MillBro Critters & Home Sitters celebrate that bond and the special ladies who make it possible.

04/04/2021

While Santa’s reindeer can call on him and his elves, who can the Easter Bunny call to pamper her after a long night’s work bringing joy to girls and boys?

MillBro Critter & Home Sitters, of course!

We are so blessed and honored to give her a good meal and fresh water, provide her a clean restroom, and offer her a clean, comfy place to rest and play.

Once we tend to her necessities, we hand her some snacks, play a game, and treat her to a special massage. Visiting so many homes and yards to hide all those eggs is hard work. So, we think she’s due some pampering fit for an icon.

May every home be blessed with pack members you love and incredible new memories as we celebrate Jesus rising from amongst the dead.

Happy Easter!

04/01/2021

Dear MC & HS family and friends:

We received notice that Midwestern Pet Foods has issued a recall of their dog foods that may have salmonella contamination.

We value the health of all our canine friends and have included the FDA link below in case your pups are on any of these foods.

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/midwestern-pet-foods-voluntarily-recall-due-possible-salmonella-health-risk

Midwestern Pet Foods, Evansville, Indiana is issuing a voluntary recall of specific expiration dates of certain dog and cat food brands including CanineX, Earthborn Holistic, Venture, Unrefined, Sportmix Wholesomes, Pro Pac, Pro Pac Ultimates, Sportstrail, Sportmix and Meridian brands produced at it

03/22/2021

New Client Howl Out: We just love making new waggy-bottomed friends, and our Australian Shepherd pal Letty is one of the most waggy-bottomed pups around. She greets us with gusto and is all about taking time to sniff all the roses, blades of grass, and whatever else crosses her path.

Welcome to the MC & HS family, Letty. We can tell we’ll be friends for years to come!

03/22/2021

New Client Howl-Out: We are barky waggy to welcome these Fab Four senior pups to our pack. Porter, Skylar, Athena, and Lucy love long walks in the park as much as we do, and they don’t let senior status slow them down!

Thanks for making us feel like old friends, and we’re so glad you’re part of our family!

03/03/2021

Whenever we take on new clients, they become part of our pack and are treated like our own beloved family.

So, our hearts are sad whenever we have to say good-bye to part of our family.

Our Golden (Retriever) Girls Miki and Keiko are packing up and headed to their new Kansas home with their humans. Thankfully, we got to see them one last weekend and had a pawsome going away pawty.

While we will miss these sisters, we are barky waggy for the new adventures that lie ahead for our favorite Golden Girls.

Waggy Trails, Keiko and Miki. Don’t forget to bark your Texas friends Howllo from time to time!

02/14/2021

!!!!!URGENT REMINDER!!!!!

You MUST provide proper “warm” shelter for ALL outdoor pets.
The cold is brutal and although pets have fur, they are not adapted to these extremely low temperatures. It’s cruel to keep them outside without a way to keep warm and shielded from the cold.
If you see a pet in distress, please report the abuse.
If you’re calling after hours, please call the non-emergency number at (972) 625-1887.
Also, make sure to hit on the hood of your car before starting your engine. Cats often seek warmth in the engine of a car. Starting your engine could be fatal.

Note to callers: just because a dog is outside in the cold doesn’t necessarily mean the dog is in danger. Keep in mind, many breeds are better adapted for these cold temperatures and enjoy the cold. Huskies, Great Pyrenees, Malamutes, Akita’s, and many other breeds LOVE the extreme cold and likely wouldn’t want to be inside even if they were forced indoors by their owner.

The Colony Animal Shelter

02/11/2021

Too cold for you, but your four-legged buddy still wants a walk outside?

Give us a call (214-454-0699), and we’ll do it for you. Pets are our jam 365 days a year!

12/25/2020

It’s a little known fact that all pets make Santa Paws’ nice list before a single human does.

We haven’t seen Santa since we were children, but when we get the privilege of spending Christmas Day with each pet on our roster, we tend to bump into Santa more than once while he visits every good girl and boy we know on his list.

So, not only are we blessed with the opportunity to spend time with our furry friends today, we also get multiple chances to run into Santa during these special visits—BEST Christmas ever!

To our clients and the communities we serve, thank you for inviting us to celebrate this special day with your furry, scaly, and feathered family members and making it possible for us to receive these invaluable gifts.

Merry Christmas from the pack at MillBro Critter & Home Sitters to yours!

11/23/2020

We are blessed to get to spend Thanksgiving Day with some of the pets in our pack, and we can’t wait to give them a great Thanksgiving feast!

10/30/2020

New Client Howl Out:

We are barking crazy over Nora and Abigail, the dynamic sister duo.

Little sister Nora has the best traits from her genetic mix of Bulldog, Mastiff, Labrador Retriever, and Border Collie. Big sister Abigail is one of the most beautiful Boxers we have the pleasure of knowing.

Both girls live for a good fetch-and-tug game. Although Abby is the alpha tugger of the duo, Nora’s skills improve each day to provide Abs with a formidable opponent. We adore how their sisterly love outshines their gaming competitiveness, and we love how one sister will wait for the other to grab part of the fetch toy so they can bring the prize back together.

These sisters also share their home with three feline siblings, and we feel blessed to love on the entire menagerie of pets each week.

Since they joined our pack in August, our hearts have not stopped skipped a single wag.

10/25/2020

New Client Howl Out:

While dogs and cats make up the majority of our client pack, we welcome all animals who carry the special designation of pet.

Flops is a three-year-old, French lop rabbit and our first bunny. Thanks to her and her devoted human dad, MC & HS has jumped up its pet rabbit knowledge and is hopping with delight over these sweet, fun creatures.

Miss Flops enjoys dried apple chips, carrots slices, and broccoli as daily treats and is litter trained. She enjoys her hay and bunny pellets and loves jumping around her caretakers feet.

Though she is deaf, that does not stop this sweet girl from sounding out to let us know how she feels. From “purring” when we massage her favorite spot to “honking” when she is having fun playing with us and even “growling” when she’s had enough social time, we can’t get enough of this “verbal” girl.

Welcome to the MC & HS family, flops. If you want to leave us an egg or two, we promise we won’t tell that bunny who calls himself Easter. 😉

09/26/2020

ISO Dogs, Cats, and other furry friends

Some people are called to lead. Some people are called to teach. Other people are called to create, to save, and to share.

I was called to love your pets.

My name is Aimee Brown, and I started MillBro Critter and Home Sitters (phone: 214-454-0699) my in-home pet care concierge services business, with one mission in mind—caring for my community’s pets with all my heart, mind, and soul. We are bonded, insured, certified, and CPR trained for your peace of mind entrusting us with your pet and your home.

Currently, I am in search of furry and not-so-furry animal friends in need of TLC while their humans are working, traveling, healing, or doing whatever activity intercedes between taking care of them and their pets.

I welcome all shapes, sizes, and breeds of pets into my pack and use my training, expertise, and passion for taking care of your loved ones to create focused, individualized visits that best serves your pet’s unique needs.

Because I come to their homes, your furry and furless babies don’t deal with stress and anxiety associated with going to unfamiliar places, dealing with unfamiliar pets, and undergoing an unfamiliar routine while their humans are away. A quick Google search will show the multiple other benefits of keeping your pets at home, on schedule, and entrusted to a consistent, familiar caregiver solely focused on them.

Whether your pet needs visits to accommodate your daily work schedule, travel plans, or other times away, I take the time to get to know your pets and their personalities so they are loved and cared for as if you were there.

Each visit, I focus on quality time with your pet(s), not each service rendered or number of pets per household. As such, I charge a straightforward, affordable fee for time spent, each visit, tending to your pet’s needs. While I am with your babies, my sole focus is being present with them without technology or other distractions that take away from them during our time together.

Housesitting requests come complimentary with each booked pet-sitting staycation or daily pet visit scheduled. We also offer standalone housesitting-only requests, behavior reinforcement, pet taxi, focused play sessions (for physical activity, rehabilitation, and mental stimulation), pet-supply delivery, overnight stays, and therapeutic massage.

We like to think of ourselves as your pet’s best friend next to you, and we proudly serve our community in The Colony and parts of Castle Hills, Frisco, Lewisville, and Little Elm within a 5-mile radius of our location (just off N. Colony Blvd. & FM 423) and up to a 10-mile radius with a small fuel surcharge added each visit.

So give us a call at 214-454-0699 and tell us how we may best serve your pet.

07/11/2020

For those of us with fur babies, this spray bottle of disinfectant is what we use to sanitize surfaces and items we contact while inside our clients’ homes.

It is both human- and pet-safe. It works on hard surfaces (both porous and non-porous), and fabric such as leashes, collars, harnesses, and bedding, and it is safe to use on kennels and food/water bowls.

This disinfectant also is what our owner personally uses in her house as one of her frontline sanitary precautions for her entire family—human and canine.

With COVID-19 adding to the list of harmful contagions, we thoroughly appreciate having this disinfectant as a sanitary precaution tool for helping protect the health of our clients’ entire four-footed and two-footed pack.

06/13/2020

New Client Howl-Out:

We are just smitten with our youngest pack member. Miss Luna is a 7-month-old miniature Australian Shepherd, and she is a fun-loving ball of energy.

Welcome to our pack, Miss Luna! We see many fetch games and tummy rubs in your future for years to come.

03/24/2020

Dear Pet Parents:

Pet sitting services are considered an essential service for residents of Denton County, where many of our clients reside, and its recently issued stay-at-home order, effective beginning midnight on March 25, for its citizens.

Pets are important family members too, and providing ample exercise and other activity for them is crucial for their physical and mental health and well-being. As a small business, we are proud to offer first-rate, individualized care for pets in our community and treat them as if they were our own.

For those pet parents who are first responders, healthcare workers, essential services employees, and personnel currently working at home, we are on call and ready to check in on your pets, provide routine walks and one-on-one playtime, administer medications, deliver pet supplies, provide taxi service for essential trips, and anything else we can do to ensure your pets maintain their routines so that their humans may focus on their roles and other activities with the knowledge their furry family members are in good hands.

We have adopted hypervigilant sanitization protocols while we are in contact with your pet and any household areas and surfaces affected by our minimal presence. Additionally, we also have adopted precautionary measures in accordance with CDC guidelines to help ensure the health and safety of any persons who may be present while we take care of their pets needs. As well, we will work with any pet parents with underlying medical conditions, who are sequestered for illness, or who require hospital stays to take any additional measures we can to help minimize further risks to their health (and ours) while providing the best care for their fur babies.

Like other businesses, the virus causing COVID-19 has had a huge economic impact on what we do, but we remain committed to our clients and serving them as best we can during these trying times. We are passionate about providing the best care possible for your pets and take pride in knowing we make a difference in their lives and yours.

Your continued patronage and support makes a huge difference in the lives of our staff members and helps us provide for our families while we provide for yours. So, we thank you for continuing to support our business and for sharing what we do we others in your community.

Please do not hesitate to call us, and we will do our absolute best to work with you and provide the best for your furry pack.

Thank you,
Aimee Brown,
Chief Pet Sitter & Owner,
MillBro Critter & Home Sitters
214-454-0699
[email protected]

03/18/2020

Although pets are not affected by the COVID-19 and our staff’s imprint on their homes is minimal, we also care about the health and well-being of our clients’ human pack members. So, in addition to our normal sanitary practices, we are instituting the following precautionary measures so that pet parents, and our staff who serve them, can have peace of mind when we are taking care of furry friends:

1. Keeping hand sanitizer in our
vehicles during scheduled rounds and using it to sanitize hands before entering any client home.

2. Taking off shoes before entering any client home, including any return entry from dog walks.

3. Avoiding pet kisses to our face.

4. Washing hands or using hand sanitizer before handling any pet gear required for pets we walk.

5. Washing hands before administering food, water, treats, or medication to pets

6. Washing hands after handling and disposing of pet waste before contact with pets.

7. Wiping down any door k***s, handles, keypads, switches, or other surface areas we touched with disinfectant wipes.

8. Wiping down any vehicle surfaces pet uses for taxi service.

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For any meet-and-greets or other requested services where pet parents will be home:

1. We will conduct as much information gathering as possible over the phone.

2. Please provide a key copy, if necessary, that we can keep on file, in our secured lock box when we are not providing services for your pet.

3. For meet-and-greets and other person-to-person contact times, please help us by adhering to guidelines suggesting a six-foot distance from others.

4. Set any pet gear necessary for taxi service by the entryway, and allow us to gather your pet.

5. Please set checks for pet supply delivery outside or pay online through Venmo or Zelle.

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For any clients who are at higher risk from COVID-19 damage, please let us know, and we will work with you to take any additional measures necessary to help ensure we do not affect your well-being.

Again, what we do and how we serve leaves very minimal imprint from us on our clients’ homes, but we are dedicated to giving pet parents peace of mind while giving their fur babies the excellent care they deserve. Any suggestions on how we can help alleviate any worries are welcome.

Thank you for working with us during this trying time.