GoGo Pets – Pet Taxi & More
She’s here, there and everywhere, going, going, going. Meet Tawnie Larson, owner and founder of GoGo Pets – Pet Taxi & More. As the name implies, Tawnie provides transportation services for pets – as for the “more,” she’s also a dog walker, pooper scooper, and pet birthday party planner.
Tawnie’s lifelong passion for animals started with her pet Corgi Curly who once kept her from harm’s way by alerting the entire neighborhood very early one morning when he found Tawnie sleepwalking down their street. Tawnie was also a tomboy in her youth, preferring turning over rocks in hopes of finding a snake to take to school to the more conventional little girl’s pets. These days, her heart is in animal welfare and rescue, and her passion is evidenced by her volunteer work with several local animal welfare groups. She’s also American Red Cross Pet First Aid Certified, and a member of the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, Petsitter Associates LLC, and the Tulsa Area Pet Sitter’s Association
Tawnie came to Tulsa from her native Kansas in 1999 and spent several years in commercial property management. She’d always longed to work with animals, in a hands-on way, so she started a research campaign on pet business possibilities. She discovered some other cities had pet taxi services, and the seed was planted. GoGo Pets opened in 2006, and just one year later Tawnie’s business has grown to the point that she’s hired Cindy Evans to help her GoGo the pets.
GoGo Pets provides pet taxi service to just about anywhere the “customers” need to go, be it to the groomer, the vet, doggy daycare, the airport – wherever, and all the kids are secure in kennels in the back. Tawnie says she doesn’t have a “cookie cutter” business, and will try to do just about anything the client wants. She once had a call to transport a goat to the vet (which didn’t work out because of scheduling problems), and a request to pick up a dove. She’s helped administer pet medicines to help out an elderly lady. One customer can’t bear to hear his cat cry on the way to the vet so he calls Tawnie to do the driving. She takes him on the one mile ride. She also provides playtime to a Tulsa physician’s dog so that he’ll be good and tired when the doctor comes home at night.
Tawnie recently got a call from a couple who had eight dogs, and they wanted her to transport four of them for a one-way trip to their vet’s office, to be euthanized, claiming they couldn’t afford all eight. Tawnie refused to make that trip, but instead took them to the Washington County shelter in Bartlesville for transport to the Boulder, Colorado no kill shelter. She also provided discounted and some free transportation at Spay Oklahoma’s spay and neuter campaign last February.
So there she goes, living her dream, helping out the pets, and helping out the people. GoGo Pets – a unique and great Tulsa service!
GoGo Pets – Pets Taxi & More
www.gogopets.biz
gogopets@cox.net
809-2180
