ANIMALS REIGN, LLC

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Hi, I’m Vicki, owner of Animals Reign, llc.

As you can see from the various activities included in my website — pet sitting, animal communication, and consulting for pet care businesses — animals and almost everything about them, are central to my life. Making it possible for pets to enjoy the best possible quality of life when their people are away is what gets me up in the morning.

From earliest childhood I’ve had a deep affinity for animals and nature. I grew up in a small western Washington town and counted dogs and cats, barn mice, frogs, and even insects as my friends. I left Washington as a young adult to live in other states and countries but returned to the Pacific Northwest after twenty years.

During those years I searched for my life’s work, but it was not until the disappearance of my dog, Copper, that I caught a glimpse of it. Each day as I swept through local animal shelters looking for Copper, I saw the hopeful eyes of so many animals yearning for a home. The memory of those homeless pets continued to haunt me even after a homeless man who had been keeping Copper returned him a few months later.

In the meantime my family had grown: I had added a cat and a rare breed of dog called a Kuvasz. I soon discovered this breed was showing up in shelters with increasing frequency, so it wasn’t long before I volunteered to represent the Kuvasz breed with Seattle Purebred Dog Rescue. I spent the next 20 years rescuing Kuvasz dogs and the other livestock guarding breeds. Recently I hung up my my rescue hat to make room for other ways to help animals.

In 1998, I discovered a latent artistic talent. I began painting portraits of pets for friends and family. Through referrals, my portrait business grew. With each portrait I would find myself connecting with the animal’s energy, even though I was working only from photos. That communication resulted in wonderful portrayals of people’s pets. As time went on, I began donating animal portraits and gift certificates for portraits to non-profit fund-raisers. Although arthritis in a few fingers eventually put that talent on the shelf, many people still enjoy the portraits of their beloved animals. The mind/spirit connection I made with the animals while drawing them led me in a profound new direction — animal communication.

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