05/10/2020
OUR latest NEWSLETTER of sorts:
Hi neighbors, friends, family and colleagues,
We are very excited to let you all know that as of May 1, 2020, we are the proud new owners of Bernal Beast pet supply shop at 509 Cortland Avenue in Bernal Heights! And we are open!
We are your neighbors, Stephanie Miller and Alan Belgard. We have lived in Bernal for the last 17 years, and we’ve each had over 20 years of experience working with animals. Over the years, we’ve been helping clients live harmoniously with their dogs through education: offering in home consultations, teaching public group dog training classes, co-founding a puppy daycare and early socialization center, and owning outdoor off leash dog walking businesses.
It is such an honor that Tony Chrisanthis, the founder who has brought pet supplies to our beautiful neighborhood for the last 25 years, has given us this opportunity to carry on what he started. We are looking forward to being part of this special community and seeing all your faces and meeting your animals.
With each of our respective backgrounds at your disposal, our #1 priority is to keep animals well nourished, healthy and cared for, so that you can continue to nurture and cherish your relationships with your pets as long as possible.
We have lots of plans for the shop! We plan to turn one side of into an event space where we will be offering a variety of fun community options for our neighbors: seminars to educate community members on humane animal guardianship, puppy socials and small dog socials, small sized dog training classes, workshops for kids to promote a love and respect for animals, guest speakers, animal adoption events, pet photography sessions, local artist shows, and much more.
And although this global pandemic will require us to switch gears and put some of our ideas on the back burner for a while, we are going to make the best of this current situation and we hope you will come along with us.
Order online through our website: https://www.bernalbeast.com/ 24/7. We offer FREE 1-2 day shipping for all orders over $49!
Bernal Beast is open!
Store hours are 10am - 3pm DAILY Monday-Sunday
Social distancing guidelines will be observed for your safety and the safety of our team members. We welcome our customers to enter the store 1-2 at a time. We ask our customers and team members to wear masks and gloves while in store. We will sanitize surfaces between customers to ensure your safety.
We can't wait to get started and see all of you one day soon! If this is enough info for one day and you need to get back to that home-schooling of children, potty training of puppy, kitty litter cleaning or virtual zoom work meetings (or maybe you're in the front lines of the pandemic, and if so, we are ever grateful to you and will cheer you on at 7pm nightly), then by all means, this is where you can stop reading.
If you are an information gatherer and have the time to read on, you can find a little bit more about our backgrounds on our website: https://www.bernalbeast.com/pages/bernal-beasts-new-proprietors.
If you have a few minutes and can help us serve the community better, please tell us what you need from Bernal Beast! Your thoughts and experiences are valuable to us. Sharing them will help us on our journey to become your perfect pet store.
We are listening!
https://www.bernalbeast.com/pages/customer-feedback-survey
We believe that Bernal Beast will become a hub of both retail and education for the public around animals and with over 20 years of experience, we feel confident that we will be able to help many community members keep their animals safe, well-loved and enriched throughout their lives. And not to worry, although we have the most experience with dogs, we love ALL animals and can't wait to be a part of your pets' lives.
The best way to track Bernal Beast is through social media. We will post updates about our store hours as well as new offerings around education and events is to follow us on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and our website.
Stay safe everyone, we are all in this together. Pets are great medicine in tough times and we want to help keep them healthy and happy for you - please check in with us soon!
Honored to be a part of this community, and can’t wait to see you soon,
Steph and Alan
509 Cortland Ave
San Francisco CA 94110
415-643-7800