Wendy Nan Rees
Wendy Nan Rees has been involved in the pet industry for over 25 years. Her career began when she founded Lip Smackers, Inc., a company dedicated to providing healthy all-natural treats to consumers concerned about their pets’ well-being. The Lip Smackers bakery still operates today out of The Pet Care Company located in Hermosa Beach, CA.
Wendy has come full circle with her new book “Dog Lover’s Daily Companion: 365 Days of Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Living a Rich Life with Your Dog”. It is a collection of many of Wendy’s most popular tricks and techniques she has used over her 25+ years as a Pet Lifestyle Advisor™. It is one of the most comprehensive “How to” dog books that has come along in many years. While reading this book you will be able to pick up on Wendy’s enthusiasm. The real secret Wendy is teaching us here is that we are giving back the unconditional love that our dogs offer us.
It is the latest in a long line of books, published by MS. Rees. Her most recent book The Natural Pet Food Cookbook: Healthful Recipes for Dogs and Cats, published in 2007, is a collection of fifty recipes which rely on natural ingredient, which also includes information about holistic pet care. It is available many places and is one of the few books sold by Whole Foods.
Other books include: No Barking at the Table: Canine Recipes Most Begged For. The book was so well-received that No Barking at the Table 2 and No Catnapping in the Kitchen were not far behind. Moving in a different direction, Wendy then published The Name Game, a collection of over 100 celebrity essays along with over 1,000 suggestions of pet names. This fun book offers pet owners an entertaining and unique take on how and why people name their pets. A percentage of the proceeds from The Name Game go directly to PAWS, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with HIV/AIDS to care for their pets.
Wendy’s success as an author and dog-treat creator is no less amazing due to the fact that she was born with severe dyslexia and ADHD. Whenever Wendy is presented with seemingly insurmountable obstacles, she charges ahead to prove all naysayers wrong. Her previous successes have led to numerous television appearances and newspaper and magazine articles. She was the “Pet Lifestyle Advisor™” on Animal Planet’s Petsburgh, USA and was featured on The Home Shopping Network. Wendy also wrote a monthly column called “In the Kitchen with Wendy” for Your Pet Magazine.
Her previous successes led to numerous television appearances and newspaper and magazine articles. She was the “Pet Lifestyle Advisor™” on Animal Planet’s Petsburgh, USA and has also appeared on The Home Shopping Network. Wendy also wrote a monthly column called “In the Kitchen with Wendy” for Your Pet Magazine.
Not one to rest on her success, Wendy focused on her entrepreneurial side, helping to create Cedar Green ®, a line of all-natural odor eliminators created with pet owners in mind. The signature product is Freshen Vac; a heat-activated natural odor eliminator that can be used in vacuum cleaners, dog beds, any home air vent and in cars.
In 2000 Wendy was diagnosed with breast cancer, which forced her to take a break from her career to focus all her energy on her recovery. Today, Wendy is happy to say she is cancer-free and working on her worldwide internet radio show called Wendy’s Animal Talk. You can hear Wendy every Tuesday at 1PM PST at www.healthylife.net . Wendy also writes two weekly pet tips for the web site www.lovetoknow.com where she provides dog and cat advice.
You can use many words to describe Wendy Nan Rees – author, cancer survivor, inventor, and entrepreneur. And while each of these terms is accurate, they are only part of a truly inspiring and creative woman, who uses her talents to innovate an industry that she has loved since she was a child—the world of pets. Wendy lives in Los Angeles with her dogs Senator, Cappy and Little Man
Ruthie Bently 
Ruthie Bently’s paying career in the pet industry began in 1976, in Evanston, Illinois where she worked for Elsinger’s Pet Shop, and she brings over 22 years of experience to the WNR Company. But her real pet-related career started when she was just three years old and brought home a nest of baby rabbits, crammed into her jacket pockets. Needless to say, she was hooked, and the rest is history. She has managed three different pet shops in the Chicago area, and was working for a custom aquarium manufacturer, when she got an job offer from her brother in Minnesota.
Ruthie has always been very interested in canine and feline nutrition, especially when she found out that most veterinarians, unless they are specializing in nutrition, don’t get much training for it in vet school. (In fact, they usually have no more than ten hours of nutrition classes.) This bothered her, so she started learning about canine and feline nutrition on her own with help from the Chicagoland veterinary community. She became so well-versed that the local veterinarians were sending their clients to Ruthie for her assistance with pet nutrition. Ruthie currently holds a Hills Pet Nutrition Consultant Certificate , and is the Owner /Consultant of Bently’s Beasties . She is also a second degree Reiki practitioner.
She lives on a farm in Minnesota with her boyfriend Steve; an American Staffordshire Terrier named Skye, and numerous cats, geese, ducks and chickens.
Jay Cruz
Jay Cruz is currently the program director and engineer for Wendy’s Animal Talk. He is also the anchor for HealthyLife.Net’s news program News@7, as well as being the Program Director for HealthyLife.Net. Jay has worked in the radio industry since 1984. Starting at his college radio station Jay has working in broadcasting positions “Behind the Mike” at KOME and KSJO as a DJ in news and sports.
