We are Karen and Aaron Hathaway.

Karen is from England and grew up on an animal
rescue center that her parents owned and ran.
There she learned to care for dogs, puppies, ducks,
horses, cats and sometimes reptiles! Aaron grew up
with Great Danes and is very knowledgeable about
dog training.

On arriving in the States, ( some 10 yrs ago!) Karen
first opened a pet store in Palm Beach Fl,then
continued with her love for animals when she moved
to Daphne by starting a pet sitting business called
Ameripet. Ameripet rapidly grew into a 300 + client
business and she decided to add to her services by
training to be a groomer. Thats when she opened
Ameripet the storefront and offered pet grooming
and puppies for sale aswell as running the sitting
service, three years later,business grew so big that
she sold the pet sitting side of the business and
moved into a bigger space, renaming the business,
The Puppy Den.

And as you may see, after three yrs in the Jubilee
Square mall we are expanding again! Alot of our
clients always ask if we can board their dogs, no one
wants to put their dog in a cage in a vets office for
a week! So, the new Puppy Den has 5 very large dog
boarding areas where they get treated like we
treat our own babies, lots of treats and attention!

We truely love animals and try to help out the local
shelter as much as we can with food donations and
fund raising events.We often get calls from our
local vets office with stray puppies that need
adopting and we frequently take them in.

We aim to please, a happy day for us is seeing our
grooming dogs leave with their tails wagging and
customers sending us photos and happy stories
about the pups they purchased from us!
T-REX, my oldest Boxer, is
no longer with us, RIP
T-REX,we miss you.
Snookie,my 3lbs  pom!
Just look at these cute little
guys.
Sumo our Pekingese,
He loves the ladies "wink,
wink."
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Turtle, the love of our lives! This
little Chihuhua was supposed to
be a pup we sold in the store, he
won our hearts and we couldnt
help but keep him, 2 yrs on, we are
so glad we came into our family!