About Us

Meet Cecilia Pietropaoli.

Master Pet Lover and owner of Home Alone Hounds, Cecilia Pietropaoli is a licensed, bonded, and insured pet care expert located in Healdsburg, CA and serving the communities of Healdsburg, Windsor and Geyserville.

Here is Cecilia’s story: After an unexpected turn of events I was no longer able to continue my 16-year career working as a youth supervisor in a juvenile detention facility. I had just gotten my six-month old dog Rosie a month earlier.

Faced with making a life change and a new puppy, I started hanging out and talking with “dog people” in my free time (which I had plenty of). I discovered Healdsburg needed a dog park and people to take care of pets when their owners were away.

Loving dogs as I always have, I decided that the skills I had for managing the behavior of maximum security juvenile delinquents were similar to those for managing animals. The only difference was that the animals were always glad to see me and were much better behaved!

So I became a pet sitter. Needing a place to take my furry friends was a problem that needed to be solved as well. So intent on that mission, I joined up with the flailing Healdsburg Dog Park Committee and we now have two dog parks. One of them is the largest and prettiest dog park in Sonoma County.

I love this business because I love being able to make these creatures lives extra special and I love being able to provide a great service to people who cherish their pets. I’m great with the animals because they so appreciate being loved and they sense it in me. Dogs are the animals I am most passionate about, though I never met a critter I didn’t like.
My belief about animals is that they offer us the gift of how to be in the present. Our dogs offer us unconditional love.

New York Times’ Best-Selling Author Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson says it all: “No other species has ever indicated that it regularly prefers the company of a human to that of members of its own species, with the single exception of the dog.”

 

 

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