Meet The Experts

Alison Smith

Honey

Susan Hartzler

Firefighter Dayna Hilton

Tracy Ahrens

Sam Carrell

Christine A. Dorchak, Esq.

Adam Markel

Julia Jones

Larissa Wohl

Janelle Lassalle

Phillips Margulis

Paisley and Scarlett Smith

Scott Sveslosky

Bob Bryant

CTO, Mission K9 Rescue

Gloria Geannette

Paris Permenter and John Bigley

James van Maanen

Cheryl Smyth

Rachael Hopwood

Maria Himmich

Anne Carol Lucas

Amanda Ree Ringnalda

Hayley Whitfield

Tamra Bolton

Wendy Lemlin

Judy Fridono

Heike Hellwig

Jane Thomas

Yvonne Dick

Deborah Stone

Heidi Fuller-love

Kristen Levine

Kristen Levine is a popular pet expert, author and creator of the Pet Living web series sharing stories of health and happiness through pets. She’s also Bissell’s official pet spokesperson, a baby boomer market expert and a 25-year veteran of the pet industry. Kristen lives in Florida with her husband and her dog, two cats and two miniature donkeys.

Hannah Stonehouse Hudson

Mary Dawn DeBriae

Jill A. Richardson, DVM

Bernice Ende

Robin Tierney

Kristina N. Lotz

Claudia Bensimoun

Elise Phillips Margulis

Account Executive

Elise Phillips Margulis lives with her husband, her darling 6 year old son, and her other beloved children: a Great Pyrenese, and 2 Siamese cats (all rescues). She loves animals, traveling, writing, and biking. Elise is also involved with her local animal rescue organization.

 

Sandy Robins

Keith Turner

Guest Writer

FIDO Friendly

Lucy Postins

Contributor

Postins is a companion animal nutritionist and founder of The Honest Kitchen, a natural pet food company in San Diego, CA. She is author of the pet food recipe book, Made out of Love: Meals to prepare for and sometimes share with your animal companion.

Heather Larson

Contributor

Larson, a freelance writer and business journalist, frequently writes about dog-friendly lodging for FIDO Friendly. Her two assistants, a beagle and a collie, often dream about those same hotels.

Penny Eims

Contributor

Eims is a freelance writer who shares her love of dogs with readers in her Dog-News-Examiner articles at Examiner.com. She is a German shepherd owner who has worked extensively with two prominent German Shepherd Rescue organizations in Washington State for several years—fostering, providing web content and counseling adopters about dog behavior.

Sheryl Matthys

Contributor

Sheryl Matthys is The Dog Expert® and Founder of Leashes and Lovers—a dog lovers club to establish play dates, friendships or even love! As the Best Selling author of Leashes and Lovers, she has two young kids, a Greyhound and resides in NY.

Arden Moore

Editor-At-Large

With Chipper at 60 pounds and Cleo at 12, I feel I’ve got the best of all dog worlds – big and small. These second-chance rescues are now canine celebrities, making appearances on CNN, Fox and many other news programs with me. They live for long walks, road trips,  gourmet treats and making sure I’m up by 6:15 every morning. Who needs an alarm clock? I’ve got the C&C team to jumpstart my day!

Greg Sims

COO

Junior is the Will Rogers of the Canine set. He has never met a dog he did not like. Since we travel extensively with Junior sniffing out hotels for purpose of review, we have many opportunities to meet and greet the dog-loving community. Junior never fails to break the ice wherever we go. Everything Junior does is adorable, but the cutest thing about him is that he sounds exactly like Chewbacca from Star Wars when he chews his Nylabone. (Pictured with Greg and Junior is wife and Publisher, Susan Sims.)

Nicholas Sveslosky

Editor-in-Chief/CEO

Our lives can revolve around our dogs. Mine revolves around my beautiful black dog, Tasha. True to the slogan of Leave No Dog Behind®, anywhere you see me you’ll see Tasha. Hiking seems to be our alone time, otherwise, we’re at the office with Tasha making sure everyone on the FF Team knows that she is in the room. If you have the right energy, she’ll end up in your lap and slip you the tongue as slyly as possible. Her enthusiasm is the motivation behind some of the great content pulsing through FIDO Friendly magazine.

Laurie Jacobsen

Contributor

Jacobsen is a writer in Northern California with a small business called Living Legends Ltd. She books nostalgic celebrities, many of whom are closely identified with dogs, at unique personal appearances. She has written and produced documentaries, television series and specials. A respected historian, she appears regularly in magazines, on radio and television, including: E!'s Mysteries and Scandals, CNN, Mike Wallace's 20th Century, Art Bell, Entertainment Tonight, A&E, History Channel, Discovery Channel, AMC, Unsolved Mysteries, the Tom Snyder Show, KABC Radio, the BBC, National Geographic, L.A. Times, N.Y. Currently, she is working on two books.

Susan Sims

Publisher

Junior is the Will Rogers of the Canine set. He has never met a dog he did not like. Since we travel extensively with Junior sniffing out hotels for purpose of review, we have many opportunities to meet and greet the dog-loving community. Junior never fails to break the ice wherever we go. Everything Junior does is adorable, but the cutest thing about him is that he sounds exactly like Chewbacca from Star Wars when he chews his Nylabone. (Pictured with Susan and Junior is husband and COO, Greg Sims.)