At Your Pet Pals, you won’t just be meeting our staff, you’ll be meeting our in-store family.

Every member of our team is dedicated to helping you support your pet’s well-being. Our nutritional specialists can guide you in making the right food choice to achieve balance for your pet.

We’re pet owners too and we know you don’t trust their care to just anyone. We want you to know that we take your trust and confidence in us seriously.

Come in today, talk with one of our consultants and make us a member of your pet’s wellness team.

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Lori Lelonde, Certified Herbalist and Director

After six years working in the store, Lori became the owner December 2008.  She loves what store was built on and the integrity behind it and wanted to make sure that wasn’t lost. Lori loves working with the animals, nutrition, the healing that goes on and how it’s all tied to keeping animals healthy. As an herbalist using all natural remedies, she’s seen first hand how she can help animals heal themselves through good nutrition.

Her favorite customers are the people that love their animals enough to come and ask the questions and who believe healing can take place with good food and nutritional supplements, homeopathy and herbs. Those are the people that care enough.

If you were to ask Lori how her experience working in the store is different from other types of work she’s done, she would laugh and say

“This isn’t work to me. When I’m here, I’m happy and I’m doing what I love because I love the animals.”

Lori has five beloved dogs with fascinating histories – be sure to read about them on the blog.

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Dale Lelonde, Manager

When Lori took over in December 2008, her brother Dale moved out from Ontario to help out with everything.  For one, he’s always believed supplements are a great help to people and enjoys seeing the cross application that benefits animals.  He finds it really rewarding to see people who are desperate when come in, go out with the ability to heal their pet. Especially since you can see how much they’re suffering because their pet is in pain and Your Pet Pals can do things they didn’t even know were possible that can help them. Dale appreciates his customers, especially the ones who really believe that by keeping their pet healthy, they are also keeping themselves healthy. The pet owner who is really ‘there’ for their pet.

According to Dale his 10-year-old dog Moxy, a ridgeback lab cross, runs his life.  When Dale found him in a dumpster with three siblings, Moxy went right to him and has been a fixture beside him pretty much 24/7 ever since.

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Jen Hryskiw, Wellness Consultant

Jen started in May 2005 and loves seeing the positive changes that enhance the quality of life for animals and the happiness that brings to them and their people.  Her favorite customers are the ones with a deep abiding love, devotion and commitment to their animals because there are so many animals that don’t have those people or that love in their lives.  Before Your Pet Pals, Jen worked in non-profit social services and education. She finds it somewhat similar – she’s still helping people strategize and work through challenges – only now it’s more animal focused.

Jen’s menagerie includes: Little dog Georgie, little dog Cozzie, 21 chickens, 5 ducks, 2 goats and an undisclosed number of cats.

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Corrine Brama, Wellness Consultant

Corrine has been with the store since 2007 and is currently taking homeopathic training for animal health. She loves to learn about animals, new products for them and is looking forward to being able to use her new skills Her favorite customer is someone who genuinely wants to help their animal. She sees a lot of customers who put their pet as their top priority in life.  Corrine grew up showing and training Huskies and brings a lot of knowledge of homeopathic and herbal products to her work.  She’s from the mainland and really enjoys meeting people in the community when they come in to the store.

She has one husky malamute cross named Severice who is the number one thing in her life.

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Rebecca Thorpe, Wellness Consultant

Rebecca wears a couple of hats, working out front with the pets and wrangling the accounts and office in the back since June 2009. Her favorite part is learning about the homeopathic side of things. Her favorite customers are the ones who come in with their pets. She finds working at the store a great opportunity to learn about a different part of her life that has been an interest of hers since she was a little girl.

Rebecca has a dog named Zoe and three cats – Simon, Felix, and Molly. They’re all up at 5 am and it makes for a busy household.