In 1999, my first year away at college, anxious and 2500 miles away from home, I got my first dog. Never had them growing up. Clueless about the financial investment required and broke, I quickly realized I was going to need to get a job to support my new love. I came home from college and began searching for someone to watch him while I worked. Realizing how much he had become a part of my life and how I wanted something different for him from a caretaking perspective, I began my own pet sitting business caring for dogs and cats while clients worked and went on vacation. Several years in, I partnered with Matt and co-founded an all inclusive pet resort offering boarding, grooming, training and daycare.

While doing this satisfied my love for providing exceptional care for others pets, I was occasionally approached by the owner who could no longer continue owning some of the dogs I had fallen so deeply for. I began helping them find new homes and quickly found myself a matchmaker for dogs in need. I would frequent shelters with low visibility, pick-up multiple dogs at a time and bring them home to evaluate them and begin the search for new owners. I founded Home 2 Home Canine Orphanage in 2014, a non-profit licensed rescue and collectively over the last 15 plus years I have assisted in finding homes for thousands of dogs from all over the country including thousands from rural Missouri. It became increasingly clear that the community needed another solution for reasonable, honest and efficient wellness based pet care when owners were forced to surrender their dogs and cats due to an inability to pay for treatment for diseases and viruses that arose from a lack of vet care. Here came the greater vision to get to the root of this perpetual problem….. Cheap Pricks.