Sherry Halpern
Pet Care Pros
Brentwood, TN
Years as a Professional Pet Sitter: 10
PSI Member Since 2007
Likes: Dogs and cats. I also like hiking in the Tennessee State Parks. Tennessee is a very animal friendly state - so we fit right in.
Dislikes: Animal cruelty and littering
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Food: Mushroom pizza
Favorite Movie: Overboard with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell
Favorite Song: He Reigns by the Newsboys
"Tricks of the Trade:” Giving customers my service menu – it scrolls with a dog bone attached
Favorite Dog Name: Sabbath
Favorite Cat Name: Achilles
Favorite “Alternative” Pets: Birds - especially talkative cockatiels. (I actually had two, named Felix and Abbott. They came to me while I was in my backyard. I also caught a parakeet when I was six years old, but Chipper came to my
front yard.
Favorite “Downtime” Activity: Reading
Best Pet-Sitting Experience: Having a blond cocker spaniel named Cindy live with us for two weeks. She slept on the bed with my husband and me. Every morning when my husband had to leave for work and would try to kiss me goodbye, Cindy would protect me and not allow the goodbye kiss.
What accomplishment are you most proud of: Beating breast cancer, stage three. It will be eight years this October 6th!
What kind of car would you drive if money was not an object? I would drive an AMG S65 Mercedes all day long.
What is your “Dream Vacation?” To travel all of the safe parts of the world in one year. I would like to do some of it by a fully-staffed, chartered yacht.
What does your PSI Membership mean to you? That I am not alone in this vast world of pet lovers and I am a member of a limited and elite club of distinguished pet sitters.
Finish this sentence: “If I hadn't become a pet sitter, I never would have…gotten to know some of the most beautiful and loving hearts and souls in the world - the animals themselves.”
Favorite quote:
"I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all."
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
