About Our Sitters

The Animal’s Kingdom sitters are the best Pet Sitters in Phoenix metro area. “Why?” you ask. Our pet sitters are all professionally trained. All applicants have passed a full criminal and civil background check, as well as social security verification. Personal references and past employers are contacted and questioned about the applicant personality and past performance.

Prior to signing contracts with The Animal’s Kingdom Pet Sitting Service, all applicants are required to pass a full training program held by Mango Consultants. During the training, pet sitters are put through their paces with on-site visit instruction, required reading on animal care and pet medical needs, and completion of the pet CPR/First Aid Certification course.

The pet sitters also learn how to perform proper interviews and take detailed notes on individual pet care and dog walking. Only adults 21 years or older with animal behavior skills are contracted with The Animal’s Kingdom, and their interaction with animals is monitored and evaluated during their training process. After being contracted with TheAnimalsKingdom.com, all pet sitters are expected to treat all visits with the utmost professionalism and customer service.

Pet sitters are paired with households that are within 10 miles of their home and have pet species that they are experienced in caring for. The Animal’s Kingdom Pet Sitting Service takes the care of your home and pet very seriously, and it will show in our service. When you decide to hire us, we will send the sitter out to your home to meet you and your pet. At that time, they will fill out a full routine sheet on the care of your pet and home.

Below are videos and written biographies on all of our pet sitters. Feel free to browse through the videos and get a chance to know us, up close and personal. See your sitter interact with their own pets and learn a little about their backgrounds and experience as told by them.

Jennifer and Andrew Cignoni click here to read biographies on the Owners

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Allison Scott

 Allsion services the Mesa area                                           

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  Allison Scott was born in Arizona in 1988, and lived in Tempe until 2009. She now lives in Mesa  with her husband, dogs, cats, and daughter.

 Back in her heyday as a teenager, Allison was an avid epee fencer.  She competed in Summer  Nationals and the Junior Olympics, and was champion women's cadet epeeist in the  Arizona/Nevada/Southern California circuit.  She retired to pursue her preferred sport of show  jumping her horse, Amorette.  In fact, she competed in the Grand Canyon State Games in both  jumping and fencing in the same year.  While they don't get the opportunity as much as they'd  like, she and Amorette still compete in show jumping as often as they can.

  In 2011, she graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature from ASU.  However, her  passion has always resided in animals.  They have always been a major part of her life; she  grew up with dogs,cats, fish, birds, and horses.  Allison has hand-raised dozens of orphaned birds, dogs, and cats. She worked in a cage-free no-kill animal shelter for over two and a half years, and was responsible for taking care of over 100 animals of all different species. 

 On January 6th, 2013, Allison's last day working at the animal shelter was interrupted by the birth of her daughter, Genevieve.  She now spends all of her free time at home raising her little girl. She still assists as much as possible at the shelter as a volunteer, as she has bonded with all of the animals there.

 Currently, she owns two cats (Dainty and Bernadette, which she raised from newborn orphans), two dogs (Cora, a Border Collie mix, and Pippin, a Papillon mix), and two horses (Amorette and Cerj, both Oldenburgs which she has owned and trained from birth).  Although she professes to be a crazy cat lady, she adores all animals of any breed or species, and looks after them all as if they were her own.

 
Gayle Paterson

Gayle Services the Chandler and Gilbert area

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 Gayle was born In Scotland in 1979 and moved to Arizona 2 years ago, where she lives with her husband, cat and fish in Chandler.

 Gayle has a BSc (Hons.) in Psychology but her true passion has always been working with animals. She started volunteering at a very young age for the Scottish SPCA and has continued her commitment to animals over the years but working with such organisations as the Oregon Humane Society, the Irish Guide Dog Association and the Arizona Animal Welfare League, to name but a few. She is hoping soon to become a qualified mentor and adoption counsellor at the AAWL, and also helps behind the scenes with office and admin duties.  She also has experience working with and handling horses.

 Gayle has a 4-year old tabby called Shiloh who she started fostering 2 years ago and decided to officially adopt almost immediately. Shiloh likes to play fetch, bring her mom and dad moths that she catches and she enjoys watching their beta fish, Clark Kent. Gayle also fosters cats and dogs for some of the various organizations that she volunteers for.

 When she is not working and volunteering Gayle likes to indulge in her passions, which are food and wine, coffee, movies, working out and exploring. She enjoys hiking, biking and camping in the cooler months and is looking forward to some snowboarding this winter, which she has been her “seasonal” passion for 10 years. She most recently enjoyed vacations in Hawaii, Scotland and Ireland and is learning Spanish at community college.

 
Chelsea Burkholder

Chelsea services Scottsdale and Fountain Hills



Chelsea Burkholder, Pet SitterChelsea Burkholder was born in Arizona in 1989. She was born and raised in the Scottsdale area and has lived in the same house her whole life. She graduated from Horizon High School in ‘08 and currently attends Arizona State University for psychology. She hopes to one day open her own practice as a clinical psychologist.

Ever since Chelsea was 11 she has been playing basketball. She enjoyed being a part of a team and the competition. She played up until high school where she decided to take a break, but plans on joining some sort of team in the future.

Growing up, Chelsea has always had some sort of animal. Anywhere from cats, gerbils, hamsters, and dogs. Her favorite was Shih Tzu, Pepper, who was over 18 years old! She has a big heart for animals and will make sure your animal is cared for greatly.

Currently, Chelsea, has a cat named Sidney (Sid for short) who loves to knock over the cage of her gerbil named Moe. Her cat is about a year and a half old and he definitely still has kitten tendencies but enjoys every moment with him! She found her cat under a cactus after someone dumped him out of the car and couldn’t help but make sure he had a loving home. She hopes to have more cats in the future!


In her spare time, Chelsea is doing school work, spending time with her Dad and friends, playing with her cat and finding new sushi restaurants to eat at with her friends.

 
Terence Wilson

Terence Services the West Mesa, South Scottsdale, North Tempe area.

Photo_with_dogTerence Wilson was born in Boston Mass in 1978. He moved to the Valley of the sun 2002 where he now lives with his amazing 12yr daughter Angelia. Terence is a single father and his love for animals stems from all the pets he's ever had as a child from dogs, cats, snakes, turtles and yes an Ant farm. Terence is a truly compassionate young man.

Being an all American athlete in high school it was his goal to go pro in either Track and field or Football, with his backup plan of being a Veterinarian, but things don't always work out the way you plan. So after years of wondering if he’d ever go back to school, he finally got his chance in 2012. His backup plan became his only plan going back to school at Pima medical Institute and getting his certificate as a Veterinarian Assistant which he completed in 2012. Terence shares his home with his daughter and Pitbull “Boudraux” (pictured above)

For fun Terence likes to go to movies, take his best buddy Boudraux to the dog park, write music, hang out with his daughter, experimenting with food in the kitchen, and going to all types of sporting events.    


 
Chandra Maydak

Chandra Services Gilbert and Chandler

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Chandra Maydak, Pet Sitter

Chandra Maydak was born in Ohio in 1974. Chandra has had a love of animals since a very young age and spent countless hours at a horse farm in her area growing up. She was enrolled in the horse program at Ohio State University/Agricultural Technical Institute and graduated with an Associate Degree in Applied Sciences in 1997. Chandra worked with horses for several years before moving into the small animal field.

She moved to Arizona in 2001 and lived in Lake Havasu City for 7 years before moving to Gilbert with her boyfriend and son. Chandra has been a Veterinary Technician for 11 years and since being in Phoenix has worked toward and attained her Certification.   She is also Pet CPR/First Aid Certified with the American Red Cross.

Chandra is currently employed full-time at a local small animal clinic. Chandra shares her house with her boyfriend, 14 year old son, 3 cats; “Rusty”, “Tennessee Tuxedo” and “Yodie,” and 3 dogs; “Woofie,” “Sniffy,” and “Lily.” All of her pets are rescues.

 In her spare time, Chandra enjoys spending time with family and hanging out with friends. Chandra hopes to one day be living in the country and add a few more “furry” family members to her house.