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Dawn has shared her life with a variety of “creatures great and small”. She has had a long love affair with horses, but is best known for her work with hedgehogs. She is author of the book, "The Happy, Healthy Hedgehog", and has trained veterinarians and veterinary technicians on hedgehog handling and care.
Dawn has been an invited speaker and clinician to WEZAM, the Wildlife Exotic and Zoo Animal Medicine conference, at the University of Wisconsin . Her articles on hedgehogs, chinchillas, guinea pigs, and other small pets have appeared in numerous trade and consumer publications. Dawn developed and sponsors IHOG, an agility program for hedgehogs, is a judge for the International Hedgehog Association and assists with 4-H companion animal projects. She owned and operated Ain't No Creek Ranch, a business catering to pocket pets and their humans, until 2006. She now divides her time between her growing animal communication practice and teaching.
Dawn describes herself as a perpetual student, participating in clinics and apprenticeships on a regular basis to continue her training. She credits her horses with pushing her into natural horsemanship, TTouch and animal communication, her veterinarians with nudging her into Reiki attunements, and her hedgehogs with growing her animal communication practice and assisting with shamanic healing. Dawn is also working on her Ph.D. in Holistic Health. Through her stature in the exotic pocket pet community, she has developed a practice that includes rabbits, guinea pigs, snakes, poison arrow frogs, bearded dragons and even millipedes, in addition to hedgehogs.
Dawn and her husband currently share their mini-farm with their three pound puppies Socks, Splash and Roxie, their barn cat Callie, numerous hedgehogs, the troll in the basement and a lot of nature spirits.
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