Pawprints, set on 6 acres of relaxed luxury in Vero Beach, Florida, features:
- A 25,000 square foot indoor/outdoor play area
- An obstacle course to build skills and confidence
- A full-service grooming salon
- An upscale boutique stocked with all sorts of pet needs and pet-related gifts, including food, beds, treats, and leashes and collars,
all designed to increase your enjoyment of your dog and his/her enjoyment of life!
With all of these services in one place, Pawprints is designed to serve all your dog’s needs. Our goal is to help you and your dog build a happy and healthy relationship.
And when you golf at the Pointe West Golf Club next door, we’ll watch your doggies so you can watch your birdies!
Our facility is available for parties, events and seminars, please call for rental fees
Pawprints Boutique
Our upscale boutique at Pawprints features only the best of everything!
High Quality Food is perhaps the most important item you can buy for your dogs, and Pawprints is proud to stock Merrick, one of the healthiest and tastiest dog foods available! With an abundance of wet and dry varieties including “Turducken,” “Grammy’s Pot Pie,” “Cowboy Cookout,” “Smothered Comfort,” “French Country Café,” and “Working Dog Stew,” we guarantee you’ll find a flavor perfect for your dog!
In fact, stop by Pawprints for a free Merrick or Solid Gold sample – your dog will be hooked!
Pawprints also features Mother Nature natural dog treats, in a wide variety of flavors including peanut butter, carrot cake, apple, and honey-glazed chicken.
Looking for a comfortable, classy dog bed? We’ve got lots of them, by the best manufacturers like Quiet Time and Beds 4 Pets, in a wide variety of sizes and materials.
But Pawprints’ Boutique stocks so much more! We’ve got Gentle Leaders, harnesses, collars, leashes, and toys. Lots and lots of toys! And, of course, only the best, like Kong toys, endorsed by dogs everywhere!
We’ve got fanny packs designed specially for your doggie items like treats and training clickers. We’ve got bones, filled with treats like peanut butter sure to please even the fussiest of dogs. And we’ve got the cutest dog carriers – no need to abandon your fashion tastes when carrying the pooch around!
We have so many more unique doggie items – you just have to stop in to see our selection! And, if we don’t have what you need, just ask and we’ll do our best to order it!
Kim Conti and Sean Verne, the owners of Pawprints, came to the pet care business from entirely different worlds. Kim has spent 20 years in the corporate world, as a medical device sales representative, while Sean’s career has been spent as an entrepreneur in health and fitness. It was their mutual love of dogs that drove them to create Pawprints. However, it was the same love for their own respective dogs which almost kept them from being a couple.
When they first met, Sean’s dog Pooch, a rescued Lab mix, had some dog aggression issues. Kim’s pride and joy, Keisha (a Poodle Spitz mix) was a dominant female. Their biggest concern was not how their families would get along, but if their dogs were compatible. Ultimately things worked out between the dogs, who have been happily living together as brother and sister for the past 10 years. But the experience taught Kim and Sean an important lesson. When given the chance to socialize most dogs will resolve their behavioral issues. This has served as the fundamental building block for Pawprints. We believe socialized dogs become better pets, companions and family members.
Kim’s knowledge of dogs began, as many trainers do, with training her own dog. She enrolled her newly purchased puppy, Keisha, in “Kindergarten” at Misty Pines Dog Park in Pittsburgh. It was a year of Saturday mornings, Kim and Keisha going to class. In the rain, the snow the occasional sunny day they were there learning together. Kim’s experience training her own dog at Misty Pines became the inspiration for opening Pawprints. Her time spent attending puppy kindergarten, obedience and obstacle course classes gave Kim an understanding of her dog which allows them to communicate to this day.
Misty Pines Dog Park laid the foundation for Kim’s understanding of dog behavior. It provided a framework for her future education and ultimately a vision of what could become a business. Misty Pines’ founder, Jeff Woods, has impacted the lives thousands of dogs and their owners over the years. His willingness to share information and answer any question has enabled Kim and Sean to realize this dream.
