After more than twenty-five years in a professional career, I opted for a sabbatical to start looking at options for a fulfilling, non-corporate life that would bring me out into nature where health, activity, creativity and my natural inclinations would figure prominently into each day. Working with animals was a long-held bucket list item and I confess that I had never considered dog walking, until one day I did. Once discovering the industry, I was enamored.