Compassionate Creatures

Thank you to those who continue to entrust me with their care. This is heart work and I'm honoured to be able to sit with you and explore the complex, wounded, and deeply grief-filled parts of your companion animal guardian experiences.

It's not about the species. It's about the value of the bond, and the ways these special relationships integrate into our every moment. 💜

Thanks to for being open to sharing my story! My navigation through the world of animal care to social work has been an engaging and intentional one.

I'm both thrilled and heart-warmed to be merging my worlds in a meaningful way, and supporting folks in broad animal caregiving spaces.

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If you have hung out with me for more than 10 minutes, you have likely heard me say "human-animal bond" or "veterinary social work".

These terms are truly at the heart of the work I do, and the passion that both keeps my flame burning (and burns me out).

The human-animal bond has shaped my life in truly monumental ways through personal, academic, and professional pursuits. I bring my own lived experiences and knowledge to the work I do, to offer supportive care and conversation to animal caregivers navigating various walks of life.

I am so glad to be on this path of care and growing Veterinary Social Work across Canada.

I'm so thankful for the network of care that exists in veterinary communities, so that clients in need of support are referred or can find me. It is an honour to sit with with companion animal guardians, holding their loss and deep grief, and letting them know that their loss is significant.

It is never "just a dog", it is always a family member, best friend, and reason for being.

Glad to share that our days are growing in vibrancy, activities, and with new humans!

If you would like to learn more about our integrative services and consider them for your own animal care team at a future time, visit our website and send us a message.

For now, we will be supporting, laughing, learning, and sharing joy and snacks with the teams on our roster.

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Have you heard of Love, Baxter? We started following their mission in early 2025 and knew the network was needed in the companion animal guardian space. It brings together vast care services, resources, and information for guardians navigating difficult circumstances around the globe.

Right from the beginning of Compassionate Creatures, we have been part of the Love, Baxter network and have them listed on our website as an extensive resource to the community. Because that is what this work is about - building a community of care to wrap around guardians deeply hurting and navigating loss.

Blog #3 is out for the animal caregiver community. Find it on our website!

If I am showing up to support grieving companion animal guardians, it is important that I can voice my own experiences of loss and life again.

For a long time, my grief has been private. And now I have a platform through Compassionate Creatures, where I can be a real human while showing up for real humans.

This is the story of Peanut the guinea pig. Walking alongside her for the final days reshaped my perspective of dying of a failing body at home.

⭐ Coming soon!

As a learner in the social work space and support practitioner through Compassionate Creatures, I was offered the opportunity to create something that would meet an academic deliverable and speak to a truly important part of the work I do.

A recorded mini-webinar will be up on my website soon, with sneak peaks posted here, to share about the integration of trauma-informed values and practices with Compassionate Creatures.

You'll receive insights on what being trauma-informed means to me and examples of how I apply it while supporting animal caregivers across Canada.

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