12/30/2025
What another year it's been!
As the years have gone by, my ability to be active for this business on social media has become abysmal, and I do apologize for that.
This year, 2025, marks the 10th year anniversary of The Sophisticated Dog. We have been in business and serving the dog owners of Sarnia for a decade now. That is quite an accomplishment for the 33 year old woman I was back when I started TSD.
I had graduated from university in 2010, with a degree and a dream to study bird behaviour, but I ended up in public policy and law in Washington DC. And I eventually landed in Sarnia in 2015 with my now husband. At that time, I decided to spend my days, while I decided what I wanted to do next, earning a little bit of money tending too and walking people's dogs. I had no idea that after a very small handful of you entrusted me with your dogs and puppies, I would ultimately turn my love for helping owners love, and understand, their canine friends better into a thriving business ten years later.
If it had not been for the incredible people who have walked dogs for TSD over the years, or how welcoming of a community Sarnia was to my fledging business, I wouldn't be having the honour of writing this message right now.
When you run an animal care business for a decade, you have more than enough time to form loving connections with these furry friends that we are entrusted with everyday. We love them like our own. And when the time comes, we have mourned and grieved with too many of our human clients in the last few years.
Your care and trust in us to do our best to provide you with the exceptional one-on-one care that your pets deserve is what has always made me focus all my time, care, attendance and engagement with your dog (or dogs) out on walks as my top priority. A passion that I ensure all those who walk your dog on my behalf also share. We want to make sure that your dog is our only focus out on those walks together. This has allowed us to truly get to know your pups, call them our furry friends and help them learn good walking manners while still allowing them to sniff, explore and fulfill their dogness.
So although this social media page can get quiet, even when big exciting achievements are made like our 10 year anniversary, it isn't because we aren't here, online...
It is because we are out there!
With your dogs.
Learning and loving them for the individuals that they are.
To all the people and dogs and cats and birds that have trusted us to give them nothing but our focus and love over these last 10 years, we thank you!!
We apologize that we aren't any good at our social media game. But we do thank you for allowing us to grow in this community and we so look forward to meeting more friends, human or animal, in 2026!
We hope everyone has an amazing new year 🎊
