I am SO incredibly passionate about Sally's work because of my PERSONAL experience with what she has helped my animals and I with over the last 4+ years

Some examples of situations Sally has personally helped me with in the last 4 years:

• VET VISITS: Prepping for vet visits in general and explaining to one fur baby if the other one needed to go to the vet

• MOVING: Prepping my pets for any and all moves (3+ moves in 4 years) we made so they would understand why boxes were being packed and would understand we would be living in a new place/home/apartment etc. This majorly reduced their anxiety when it came time to pack up the house/home because they were fully understanding of what was happening

• SURGERY: The entire process of Maui's TPLO surgery which was one of the most stressful things for me as an anxious dog mom. This included explaining what was wrong with her knee and why she needs surgery and what she could expect with the entire process of pre-op. Including asking her opinion on the Surgeon she met, the Vet office we would have the surgery at, explaining the post surgery routine, how long she would be alone at the hospital without us, if she wanted to do rehab at a center or at home, how her pain levels were etc. I could not have gotten through this without Sally. Maui is an incredibly sensitive babygirl and so the entire surgical situation was one of the most stressful few months for both myself and Maui. Having Sally was truly pricless to helping in ways Maui and I both needed

• LOKI'S BEHAVIOR: Helping me with Loki's peeing on the furniture and his constant trying to escape the back yard

• UNDERSTANDING LOKI: Helping me understand Loki in ways that for 9 years prior, I never did. Sally allowed my bond with Loki to become so close and harmonious because I could finally understand him and I could communicate back to him through Sally to come to compromises and understandings. We had a wonderful last 4 years together closer than we had ever been due to communicating through Sally.

• NAVIGATING SPLITTING A HOUSEHOLD: Navigating a break up and separation of one household into two and a major change to the entire life that our dogs knew. We worked with Sally every step of the way to ask the dogs what they wanted regarding if they wanted to stay together, each live with one parent or go back and forth between both homes, as well as other things such as prepping them before the actual move out, explaining to them how the co-parenting will work and explaining to them that non of this was their fault and that they now get two homes, two households of love and will continue seeing both parents. Also explained to them how many days they would go without seeing me so they wouldn't think I abandoned them. (I was full time with them when their dad traveled) so this would be the first time they would spend multiple days or weeks without me.

• GIZMO'S LAST FEW MONTHS ON EARTH: Navigating Gizmo's medical-injury that eventually took his life and navigating those last 3 tumultuous and painful months on earth. She was with us weekly for those 3 months and checking in with him and asking him what he did and did not want in terms of treatments, vet visits, etc. She also allowed us to give him everything he wanted in the end and have his passing be what HE wanted, and made sure we gave him that last "dying wish." It is very personal to me and his Dad so I will not share the details on exactly what this was, but, knowing we were giving Gizmo only what HE wanted and not "pushing" anything on him from our selfishness, helped me feel like we honored our love for him in that way. We gave him the "last day" and the passing he asked for which was in the comfort of our home, with his sister and Loki there, as well as both his dad and I present.

• LOKI'S DEATH / AFTER DEATH: Loki had a very sudden and traumatic death and I was a complete mess because it all happened so fast that I wasn't able to have Sally talk to him before he passed like I had her do with Gizmo. Once Sally communicated with Loki a week after his passing, she was able to tell them what I needed him to know and also let me know he's doing great and is so happy not to be restricted to his human body anymore. He was happy and loved being "free." He hated that in his cat-form he couldn't be let outside to roam as he wanted to (due to the dangers of roads, cars, other animals, etc). Hearing his words on how his death happened actually made me smile because it was "such a Loki thing to say." Hearing how he was doing after crossing over, gave me a peacefulness and closure that I honestly could not even put a price tag on.

• Having Sally talk to Maui after Loki died to check in with her emotions and well-being. Maui communicated that she was really sad and scared having no siblings left. She hated how quiet it was without Loki. She also didn't feel comfortable being left alone for the first few weeks and wanted me to ease into it with small 5-10 minute trips "away" from home and work up to longer alone time. Sally asked her what I could do to help her feel more comfortable when alone and Maui asked for there to be noise left on like the TV and some peaceful music so it wasn't so quiet and she wanted to hear "human voices." (aka TV). Now anytime I leave I make sure to leave Netflix running in one room and play some anti-anxiety frequencies on 10 hour loop in another room so no area of the house is quiet

• Asking Maui about her input on moving into a new place and explaining how it would look different from the last place in terms of lifestyle (apt vs. house etc)

• Maui was recently attacked by a Dog completely unprovoked and I had Sally talk to Maui to check in with her! It was one of the scariest situations of my life but Maui's well-being is always my top priority and knowing how she felt about the incident and what she needed me to do moving forward (despite my fear/anxiety) was really helpful