OUR STORY
…BEGINS AND ENDS WITH A GIRL AND HER DOGS.
Brittany was born loving animals — a stargazer, a believer in second chances, always looking to the love of a dog for a sense of belonging. That belonging had a name: Sully. Incomparable, irreplaceable — the kind of soul you whisper your secrets, hopes, and dreams to. A mirrorball in the heart-shaped form of a dog.
When Sully passed, he left behind a light that refused to go out. The face that launched a thousand ships. He was proof of what Brittany had always felt to be true — that your relationship with your dog can quietly solve a little bit of life's mysteries. She built Dogstar to help others find what he gave her: a sense of home, of harmony, of being known.
The Dogstar dream is simple: to become changed by living life in harmony with your dog by your side. To become infinitely more human by letting them in — all the way in.
Dogstar exists at the intersection of people, animals, and the organizations that serve them. A pre-through-post adoption counseling service guided by animal behaviorists and humane educators, built on the radical idea that a live human voice — available for the lifetime of a dog — can change the outcome for everyone in the room. The animal. The adopter. The shelter that took a chance on both of them.
This isn't training. This is mutualism.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Brittany has been intuiting animals for as long as she can remember. At twelve, she predicted the exact day her childhood dog would give birth. That instinct never left her — it just kept finding new ways to show up.
Long before rescue work had a title, she was already doing it. Negotiating with a stranger on the streets of Chicago to save a puppy too young to be away from his mother. Spending midnight hours in the woods, patiently trapping a feral dog — and then finding her a home.
That personal calling eventually became a profession — from the mountains of Idaho to the streets of Munich, building counseling skills, welfare experience, and a worldview shaped by cultures where dogs aren't an afterthought, they're a way of life. Munich changed her. Living and working abroad opened her eyes to something she had always sensed but never quite seen so clearly: that when dogs are truly woven into the fabric of human life, everyone is better for it. She came home a different person and a better advocate.
That worldview, combined with years working alongside animal behaviorists, humane educators, and some of the most trusted modern brands in the pet care industry, is the foundation Dogstar is built on.
Her own dogs are her most honest credential. They have traveled with her across continents — on planes, trains, and boats — for over a decade. People stop her constantly to ask what her secret is. It isn't training. It's mutualism. And it's exactly what she built Dogstar to share.