11/06/2026
🇺🇸 **HOTT RODD’S DOGGIE VACAY SUMMER YOUTH CAMP** 🐾❤️💙
**Pet Care with Purpose – Building Future Leaders!**
**Our Mission Goes Beyond Pet Care — We Are Educating, Empowering, and Preparing Our Future Leaders!**
During our 2026 Summer Youth Camp, our young leaders had the wonderful opportunity to visit the **Tennessee State Capitol**, where they received a firsthand look at the chambers where our state legislators — the Senate and House of Representatives — meet, debate legislation, and cast votes that affect our communities.
We discussed the responsibilities of legislators, the importance of civic engagement, and why **EVERY VOTE MATTERS!**
With the recent election, I sincerely hope that the parents of our summer camp participants took this opportunity to revisit those lessons with their children. I hope you sat down together, watched the election coverage, discussed the results, and helped them understand how our government works and why voting is such an important responsibility.
❤️ **This experience is personal to me.**
I vividly remember sitting down with my son, Rodd, watching election coverage and having meaningful conversations about the candidates, the issues, and the importance of voting. At that time, I was also in a relationship with someone who had custody of his three children. We all sat together, watched, asked questions, shared our thoughts, and learned from one another.
Those moments were about so much more than an election. **They were about family, education, awareness, and teaching our children to think critically and understand the world around them.**
Today, those memories remind me why I created **Hott Rodd’s Doggie Vacay Summer Youth Camp** and why continuing my son's legacy through youth development means so much to me.
Our camp is not just about teaching children how to care for animals. It is about exposing them to opportunities, teaching financial literacy, entrepreneurship, leadership, responsibility, community involvement, and civic education.
**We are planting seeds today that will produce tomorrow's leaders!** 🌱
To my summer camp parents: Please continue the conversations at home. Ask your children what they remember about visiting the Capitol. Talk about the election. Explain the importance of being informed, respecting different opinions, and making their voices heard when they become eligible to vote.
Because education doesn't stop when summer camp ends, and leadership doesn't begin when you become an adult.
**It begins with exposure, conversation, knowledge, and opportunity!**
🐾 **Hott Rodd’s Doggie Vacay Summer Youth Camp**
*Pet Care with Purpose – Building Future Leaders.*
**Honoring Rodd's Legacy, One Young Leader at a Time.** ❤️💙
