Ruthie's Bio
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 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.
