Our Office Team
Sylvie
Sylvie founded and managed Kids Karousel, a children’s clothing, toy and furniture consignment store in North Andover for 24 years before “retiring” to work as office manager for BlueDog. She was also the president of the North Andover Merchants Association for 3 years and held a position on the board Read More
Our Trainers
Amy Kisiel
Amy began working for BlueDog in 2009 as a dog walker and became a certified dog trainer through Mount Ida College’s Dog Training program in 2011. But her experience with dogs began far earlier than that from growing up in a family of dog lovers and at a very young Read More
Eric Vose CPDT-KA
Eric has been around dogs and training for as long as he can remember. As a kid, he would go out with his Father or Grandfather to help them train the family dogs for hunting. In 2007 he decided to pursue his own training path by adopting a Pembroke Welsh Read More
Jessica Meade
Jessica is originally from Ohio, where her passion for dog training first started. Her mother worked in the pet care industry Jessica’s whole life and it sparked her love for animals. Her mom was always bringing home various critters and her friends always referred to their house as “the zoo.” Read More
Tom Prendergast
Tom was in the Information Technology field for 18 years and has a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology from UMass – Lowell. He was looking for a change and realized that his true passion was working with dogs; so he began walking for BlueDog. Tom is very familiar with BlueDog Read More
Our Walkers
Alicia
Alicia, born and raised in Dracut Massachusetts, has always been a huge animal lover! She has had her 8 year old Jenkins since she adopted him 7 years ago. She says she loves animals so much so that she is now a Vegan! Alicia studied Metal Fabrication to Greater Lowell Read More
Alison
Alison is the youngest with two older brothers and grew up right here in North Andover! She spent a year in New York studying equine science in hopes of becoming a jockey until she came home and started volunteering at Windrush Farm. She helped out with the equine therapy program Read More
Andrew
Andrew was born in the England and came to the United States in 2002, becoming an American Citizen in 2013. Andrew has been involved with the Salem Animal Rescue League since 2007 as a caregiver for dogs. Sirus, who he shares his picture with, is a former student here at Read More
Danielle
Danielle is from Butler, PA, but moved to New England in the year 2000. She started her career as a Quality Control scientist after getting a science degree from Penn State, but left that field after 10 years to work with her husband at his privately-owned company. After nine years Read More
Jill
Jill has always felt a special bond with animals. As long as she can remember, she’s been fascinated with all kinds of animals. When she was a kid, Jill was always the one finding strays or injured animals and taking them in to care for. Whether it be a lost Read More
JoAnne
JoAnne left a job in education to pursue a career as a dog trainer and found her way to BlueDog where we’re happy to provide her with such an opportunity! Jo is the proud mom of 4-footed children Neikko, an Akita, Jewel, a pit bull mix who recently earned her Read More
Karen
Karen was born and raised in Oklahoma. She has a B.S. degree from Oklahoma State University for Agricultural Economics with farm and ranch management. She is married to a retired Naval officer and they’ve moved all over the US together, though we’re lucky she’s stopped at BlueDog’s home, Andover MA! Read More
Mark
Mark recently retired from the MITRE Corporation after a 40 year career in graphic design and corporate communications management. When he retired, he knew exactly what he wanted to do – work with dogs! He considers himself lucky to have adopted many rescue dogs over the years and has always Read More
Mary
Mary comes from a large family full of people & dogs. Her and her husband, Dan, raised two chocolate labs, Matty & Paffy, who would attend the many family parties, sporting events, and would enjoy hikes with her & her 19 nieces & nephews. They are now the proud parents Read More
Noelle
Noey has owned Akitas her whole life, one was named Fluffernutter and the other named Socks. She hopes to get another one very soon! Currently, she has two cats named Calico and Sumai. When she’s not with them, she is taking care of her family friend’s dog. Noey loves photography Read More
Tracy
Tracy has had and been around dogs her entire life. She has had cats, dogs, hamsters, rabbits and ducks as a child. When she first met her husband, he called her Dr. Doolittle! After she got married, she finally got her chocolate lab named Godiva and a black lab named Read More
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