it spans a lifetime and crosses a continent.
it’s filled with wet noses and wagging tails and endless adventures together.
our dream has been, and always will be, devoted to enriching the lives of dogs and their people.
in 2012, we introduced our dream the old fashioned way.
by word of mouth, we made a promise to share with others what our dogs get to enjoy every day. back then, there was no guarantee that our dream of dogventures would work. we didn’t know where we would end up or how we would get there, but we knew what we wanted.
we wanted to create something with integrity. we wanted to keep it small and intimate. we wanted to build community around our shared love of dogs.
so we simply started talking to everyone we knew. we told them about our dream of dogventures.
and slowly it began. people started dropping-off their dogs with us and finding them wonderfully tired and happy and content long after the adventure was over.
word spread. and tails wagged — including our own.
we migrated from our home ranch nestled high in the eastern hillside of Saint Helena to a more convenient location just south of downtown, we’ve had the pleasure of exhausting a whole lot of dogs and befriending their people.
what hasn’t changed is our commitment to creating a safe space for dogs to engage with one another — to burn-off excess energy and spend time with kindred spirits.
it’s truly an honor to be trusted with someone’s dog.
since the very beginning, dogventures has been shaped by the dog-loving people around it. dogs bring people together. and together people can do amazing things.
in addition to dogventures, Suzanne has deepened that sense of community by launching a local-serving nonprofit and publishing a digital newsletter that connects dog-loving people wherever they may live.
nonprofit support
to us, organizations like STELLINA Psychiatric Service Dogs play a crucial role in what makes Napa Valley special. they provide service dogs to local residents, civilian and military veterans alike, who have been diagnosed with a mental health illness — giving them an opportunity to begin healing and leading more independent lives.
it’s this longtime awareness of the positive impact service dogs have on mental health that led Suzanne to launch STELLINA in 2020 —during the midst of the COVID pandemic. since then, they’ve raised, trained, and placed 2 psychiatric service dogs. the waitlist grows as the need is real.
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