Hi! I’m Dreya.

I’ve been an animal lover for as long as I can remember. Growing up surrounded by pets, I naturally developed a deep understanding of and connection with animals. For the past 10 years, I’ve turned that lifelong passion into a professional career—providing reliable, compassionate, and thoughtful pet sitting and dog walking services throughout the Bay Area and beyond. 

I graduated from Santa Clara University with a degree in Business Marketing, hoping to get into sports marketing or into an industry that was “fun” and not boring. For about 15 years I worked in video games and entertainment, an industry that was constantly innovating, exciting and fun. I met some really incredible people in my corporate life that became my mentors and dear friends over the years.

As with most jobs in tech, there will always be uncertainty with job security and surprise layoffs, so when I found myself without a job after an unexpected layoff and struggling to find full-time work, I decided to help out my friend when she needed a walker for her dog sitting business in Santa Clara.

I took that experience of dog walking in Santa Clara and decided to try it out in my neighborhood in San Francisco by just putting a post up on Nextdoor to let my neighbors know I was available for individual dog walks for their pups. I thought I’d maybe get one or two neighbors inquiring with me about a dog walk because in a city with plenty of real, professional dog walking businesses running around town, why would they call me, a random neighbor without a website or business cards?

Turns out people loved my one-on-one service instead of big pack walks and I started to add pet sitting to my list of services, staying in clients’ homes to watch after their fur baby and next thing you know my handful of clients started to spread the word to their network of pet owners that they had the best pet sitter to refer and my client list continued to grow year after year.

After giving freelance work a try while still doing this dog walking & pet sitting thing as a “side hustle”, 10 years flew by and I reflected back on the last decade. Freelance projects and work gigs came and went but the one constant stream of income for me was from dogs and pet sitting and I realized it was truly what makes me happy. This work never feels like “a job” and it allows me the flexibility to make my own schedule, to get outside and walk around exploring nature, and I get to bring my little Yoshi with me everywhere I go, where he gets to meet new furry friends and stay active on our walks, so what more could I want?

I never thought I would be living out my dream of working with animals but here I am and I am so grateful.

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