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About Moxie's Pet Services
I am
Tamara Dailey, owner of Moxie’s Pet Service —
a very specialized in-home-pet sitting plan that presently services
numerous satisfied customers on a regular and continuous basis.
I am a highly experienced pet-care provider and animal lover.
I have built a solid reputation and strong business presence in
the South Austin area by providing pet owners with a quality of
care and concern for their animals that can only the owners themselves
can match.
Getting
started — when naming my pet sitting business, I
wanted the name to represent my work. “Moxie” was the
word that stood out to me. Sincerity, knowledge, enterprise, enthusiasm
and vigor are just some words that are synonymous with MOXIE.
I am full of moxie and I put a lot of moxie into the work that
I do for my pet sitting company.
I’m one
of those fortunate people who get to do what they love for a living.
Moxie’s Pet Service is my full time job. I started pet sitting
in 2003. At that time pet sitting was a very, very part time fad
for me. I was in between jobs and didn’t know what I wanted
to do for a living anymore. So I advertised my services as a pet
sitter in my homeowner association’s newsletter. At that
point, the work was very seasonal, but it helped pay some bills
while I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do professionally.
Three years passed and I was still “pet sitting” for
a very loyal group of families in my neighborhood. At that point
something small but powerful happened.
Christmas,
2005, my husband and I had become parents of an adopted rescue
kitten from Dallas. That was when I discovered another meaning
of the word “moxie” — the ability to face difficulty
with spirit and courage. This little kitten was found in a junkyard
with a broken jaw and a broken tail. Someone had abused her and
left her for dead. When we finally received her into our home,
she was all patched up — with a little crooked tail and no
bottom teeth. However traumatized she had been, she came to us
like the sunshine on a cloudy day. She had survived a horrible
experience but obviously wanted to live her life with enthusiasm
and courage. I named her Miss Moxie. And in honor of her courage,
I decided that pet sitting was what I wanted to do professionally.
January
1, 2006 I set up shop. By that time the decision to be
a professional pet sitter seemed natural. I had my spin at jobs
that pertained to my college degree. Those jobs didn’t make
me happy the way I was as a pet sitter. After all, I did spend
the first 20 years of my life living on a farm in Ohio. I had
been a 4-H member from the time I was 9 until I was 18 —
showing cats, dogs, horses, and rabbits. The time I spent caring
for my animals was some of the happiest times of my life. Why
not draw upon the education I “learned by doing’?
Since I made
the decision to go full-time professionally (with liability insurance,
business cards, independent contractors, participating in pet
sitting organizations, etc.) my business has grown 300%. And I’m
still growing. My pet sitting is a business, and I must respect
it as such. But the benefits of getting to meet so many wonderful
families and taking care of their fur babies far out weigh the
hassle of writing up contracts, advertising, networking, or having
to keep track of the miles I travel for work.
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