co-owner / care staff / wildlife wrangler

Malissa spent the last eight years in various flavors of animal care work. From 2018 to 2020, she attended the Zoo Animal Technology program at Santa Fe College here in Gainesville, FL. After graduation, she worked various reptile zookeeper jobs, discovering a love of alligators, tortoises, and all things slithery. After leaving the exotic animal fields, she worked raising and caring for medical service dogs, then daycare and boarding for pet dogs. She was working at Must Love Dogs when the business closed and couldn’t let the park go, so she partnered up with her friend Meg to get the doors back open. The rest is history!