10/21/2026
Happy birthday to our matriarch Arya 🤍
Thirteen years ago, this beautiful creature was born on the streets of Taipei, Taiwan and by fate (or my lack of impulse control) she found herself on an 11 hr flight to a new life with us in SF. Fast forward four cities, a career change to dog training, strutting the aisle at our wedding, adapting to life with two kids, and founding Locdogs LLC—I am so thankful to have this girl by my side through it all!
She is loyal, sensitive, and the perfect amount of wild to keep me humble. She has served as neutral distraction and gateway friend to hundreds of reactive dogs, and is particularly skilled in reading a nervous dog and adapting her body language to their needs.
Though she is now semi-retired and spends most her day finding quiet places to nap, she still chooses to walk everyday and nabs a loaf of bread every couple months to remind me where she came from. In fact, was going to bake her a dog cake today but she already cleaned out two treat pouches that I left out so happy birthday bi**ch! Long live the queen! 👑