Pawsitive Vibes Only, LLC

PET FOOD DRIVE ✨🐾 UPDATE! 🐾✨

Great news! I am partnering with local NW Philly rescue to help stock their pet pantry with donations from our community. Their project manager, Josie, also works closely with the 5 NW Philly community fridges so she is going to help me with distribution to get things stocked for those in need *right now.*

✨🐾 WANT TO HELP?🐾✨

Beginning this Sunday, I’ll be doing pickups of donations an a weekly shopping trip for necessary items. If you would prefer to donate directly via Venmo, ❤️please DM me❤️ and I will send you my info.

If you are shopping for donations for me to pickup, here is a helpful list of what is needed:

🐾 Cans of wet cat food is the most requested!
🐾 Small or large bags of dry food/kibble - we can break down in to smaller portions.
🐾 Small dog food is preferred
🐾 Cans of wet dog food also welcome

I don’t have a Costco membership, but if you do and want to grab stuff, I can Venmo you and then arrange pickup.

Hit me up via socials or text me if you have any questions! We will get through this together.

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I think I started petsitting when I was about 11 years old. I would watch the animals of our backyard neighbors, who also owned Abby - a yellow lab, and my first dog friend.

Always a side hustler, although I maintained full time careers in corporate marketing, radio, and the craft beer industry, petsitting has been one of the longest and most steadfast relationships of my entire life.

In 2021, I decided to turn the side hustle into a business. I filed LLC paperwork, had a friend help me build a website, hired an account and wrote a service contract. was born, and I could never, ever have imagined what a beautiful, wild, life-changing adventure it would become.

The adventure must change, though. Three and a half years ago, the world and MY world looked very different. As time passed, I kept hitting roadblocks and finally at the beginning of this year, I reached one that I just couldn’t get past. This economic climate is pretty unforgiving, and it’s just no longer financially sustainable to continue.

Clients, I am eternally grateful for your support over the past few years. Thank you so much. Family and friends, thank you for your words of encouragement, patience as a fumbled my way through the world of entrepreneurship, and love.

Active roster clients, you will find more information in your Time To Pet portal messages. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

And remember, keep it pawsitive.
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This week was exceptionally heavy, wasn’t it? We felt it in our conversations with friends and family. We saw it in the distracted behavior of the collective, folks with their heads buried in their phones on the sidewalks and in their cars (!!). The news headlines were overwhelming to see. Everything, everywhere, all at once type stuff.

I think a lot of us are feeling grief. I’d like to talk about that, because pet grief is a special type of hell. When we lost Piglett in May of last year, it felt like someone shot out my kneecaps. She seemed so youthful, her life so far from over - but there we were, watching the life leave her eyes on the cold linoleum floor of Blue Pearl in Conshohocken.

When we told people, everyone was so supportive and kind. “Pet grief is a living hell.” “It’s the worst feeling in the world.” “I am so sorry, I am here for you.” Solidarity.

Grief is a unifier. So many different people, so many walks of life, tax brackets, races and religions remembering the times they had to hold lifeless paws on vet office floors, their hearts ripped out of their chests.

This is heavy. It’s okay to feel it. Pawsitive Vibes Only has always been a place of inclusion - a safe place for everyone and it will remain that way. We stand as firmly as we can with our friends in marginalized communities as we do with our Constitution. It will be a cold day in Hell when I am not loud and annoying about our civil rights. I am an American, I built this business in this country and I will be here to celebrate better days ahead. They are coming.

Because you know what else is a unifier? Joy.

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