Welcome
Welcome to our digital corner on the interwebs my friend. We are beyond excited that you and your precious dog have found us and are joining our amazing community.
We are an online Lifestyle and Wellness Magazine for first time Dog Pet Parents who want to start living a healthy happy life together with their dogs and want to embrace the full experience of being part of the Pet Parenthood with our furry munchkins. We are here to support, motivate, and inspire more greens, more paw movement, and lots of tail-wagging days of gratitude with our precious dogs.
We want to make this place as comfy and homey as possible for us, creating an environment full of love, mindfulness, and support among each other as Dog Pet Parents. With so much chaos in the world, I want you to know that you can always come here for positivity, support, and smiles. I try to live life with the cup half full most of the time, and recently this has been challenging. But as soon as I see those tail wags and see their joy in their eyes, I’m consistently reminded that I have everything I need to live a happy, loving life with my 2 furry best friends by my side.
I designed this online magazine and community to be a place full of peace, joy, love, laughter, funny stories of our dogs and the many things that they do to cheer us up, and a place of resources to kickstart our dogs live a healthy life with us. I want us to be a close-knit community connected with the great joy of being Dog Pet Parents. We are a collective group of dog lovers who want to spread as much social good and happiness in this world, and with our pups by our side, we know we can achieve this.
I have this heart-driven mission to show as many Pet Parents how simple human-friendly actions can create healthy dog-friendly lives; I love teaching Dog Pet Parents how small steps can make a world of a difference in your dog’s life. By incorporating our dogs into our healthy habits, they too can increase their chances to living a long tail-wagging life by your side, which is our ultimate goal as Pet Parents, to provide them the best we can to help them live as healthy as possible with us.
Ultimately, we want to be the best part of you and your dogs day.
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Our Values
Living Healthy Together
Living Healthy with our dogs can be as easy as just adding more activity time with them throughout the day, or adding fruits and vegetables to their daily intake. We will show you easy ways to start doing this with your pup.
Living Happy Together
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Living in Gratitude Together
They show us the meaning of living in the moment with appreciation and gratitude. We learn so much with them, like how to care for another being, about being loved unconditionally, and having a furry side-kick companion to help you with the many things life throws you.
Carolina Velasquez-Gomez
Founder, and Creative Director
I’m a Dog Loving Human, whose life changed when I became a Dog Pet Mom for the 1st time 9 years ago to a furry little 14-week old Puggle, and whose life got sweeter 5-years ago when we rescued Baby Girl, our 10-year old Pugalier Diva.
I’m an advocate for living Happy and Healthy with simple action steps with our pups. On a mission to bring Dog Health/Wellness Awareness to Dog Pet Parents so together we can help reduce the Dog Obesity rate and increase the Lifespan years for our precious dogs.
My Fav’s:
- Favorite Food: Thai Food
- Fan Girl: House of Cards, This is Us, (and yes, I cried almost every episode) The American’s
- Favorite Way to Start/End My Day: Gratitude, Prayer+Meditation, Walks with my pups
- Ways I Love to De-Stress: Yoga, Journaling, Being outside with mother nature, Hugs and Kisses from my furry loves.
- My favorite Creative Outlets: Design, DIY Projects, Gardening, Photography
- Daily Must-Have: Green Smoothie + eating anything with Coconut!
Peligro "Peayo" Our Puggle
VP of Cuteness Overload
Hi there! I’m Peligro, the furry blessing that started everything for my sweet Dog Mama, Carolina. With my bow ties and adorable face, I have to admit I bring the cuteness overload factor to D+M Friendly! I love it when my Dog Dad shares his salmon sushi with me, or those yummy Dog-friendly smoothies that my Dog Mom makes every day. More Greens Please!
I’m super happy and excited that we finally have a place for all those cool Dog Pet Parents that want their Fur Kids to be healthy like them. With a little extra paw moving and adding some yummy fresh ingredients to our lives, we too can get some extra benefits that could make a difference for us, can you imagine how many extra tail-wagging days your pup could spend with you?
My Fav’s:
- Favorite Foods: Peanut Butter, Bananas, Salmon
- Dog Movie: Marley and Me (my dog mom cries every time, but I get extra hugs every time she watches.)
- Favorite Way to Start/End My Day: Gratitude Tail-Wags and Wet Kisses to my Pet Parents, walks at the park.
- Ways I Love to De-Stress: Sleeping on Dad’s chair, playing with my toys, Sun-bathing, or fun playdates with friends.
- Daily Must-Have: Bananas, Apples, Berries, and coconut oil
Baby Girl our Pugalier
VP of Recipe Quality Testing
About 5 years ago we rescued Baby Girl, our 10-year old Pugalier Diva, who can be as precious as an angel or as loud as a truck when snoring in her sleep.