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While certainly not recommended, a healthy adult cat can live in a closet for 62 hours without food or water.  I happen to know this because a pet sitter locked my cat in a closet an entire weekend once.

It’s often been said that every dog has his day, but the lucky ones spend their days with Adina Silberstein or her dog walkers, even in a dog-eat-dog world. Adina’s Mt. Airy-based company, Queenie’s Pets, is part of a phenomenon gaining a toe-hold (or a paw-hold) in upscale neighborhoods around the country. That trend is the professional dog walker and pet sitter, once the purview of the teenager next door but now one of the fastest growing businesses in the country.

A RED, antique-looking vending machine full of dog treats is posted outside Queenie’s Pets in Mount Airy. A bowl of water is nearby.

The store’s owner, Adina Silberstein, started Queenie’s, a dog-walking and pet-sitting service, 10 years ago as a home-based business with just one employee.

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Devastated. That’s the only word my friend Pam, a successful Philadelphia attorney, could summon up after the loss of her cat “Sweetie.” During any attempt Pam made to talk about it, her emotions silenced her.

“There’s a really big difference between people’s perception of what it means to be a dog walker and what it means to be a professional dog walker,” Silberstein said, explaining why she joined Wage Change, a new organization of small Philadelphia businesses committed to paying more than minimum wage.

It’s often been said that every dog has his day, but the lucky ones spend their days with Adina Silberstein or her dog walkers, even in a dog-eat-dog world. Adina’s Mt. Airy-based company, Queenie’s Pets, is part of a phenomenon gaining a toe-hold (or a paw-hold) in upscale neighborhoods around the country. That trend is the professional dog walker and pet sitter, once the purview of the teenager next door but now one of the fastest growing businesses in the country.

Q: My dog’s a yapper. What should I do so my neighbors won’t hate me?

“Death and Dying” discusses death and the unfamiliarity of the afterlife.

“Death is very real, very emotional and very stressful—why not wrap your head around it?” said Defibaugh, who teaches “Death and Dying,” a three-credit course in Temple’s religion department.

We were the 3rd highest fundraising team.

Adina Silberstein, owner of Queenie’s Pets® professional pet sitting and dog walking, was among the 28 graduates of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses-Greater Philadelphia program in April.

Read more to understand our policy against the use of flexible leashes (aka “flexi-leads”), which are dangerous to both pets and their people.