About Us
Mutts, Manners and More, LLC is a dream come true for Amy Gibbs. Amy has always had a love for dogs as she grew up in her dad's vet office. She showed her family pets in 4-H from the time she was 6 until she was 18. After marrying her husband Kevin and having children, Amy and her daughter became members of the Sedalia Kennel Club where she started showing their Australian Shepherd Roxie. Soon after, Amy started teaching classes for the Sedalia Kennel Club.
Amy's involvement in the dog world has grown over the years to include showing in rally, obedience, conformation, having therapy dogs, and to breeding and raising registered Australian Shepherds. In addition, Amy has been a 4-H dog leader for almost 20 years, continues to teach classes for the Sedalia Kennel Club, and is a Canine Good Citizen Evaluator through AKC. Amy has dogs who are AKC conformation champions, Best in Show winners, and has dogs who have performance titles in obedience, rally, scent work, fastCAT, tricks, temperament, therapy, and canine good citizen. She truly understands the "dog world" as well as having a well behaved family pet.
Not only does Amy have a love for dogs, she has a love for working with children. She was a teacher for 25 years. She began her teaching career in Sedalia teaching Early Childhood Special Education for 12 years. She then taught preschool in Green Ridge for 7 years, junior high and high school FACS for 3 years, and retired in May 2018 as a K-12 Cross Categorical Special Education teacher. Mutts, Manners and More is Amy’s retirement gig (dream). As much as she loves it, she has never intended for this to become a full time job.
In addition to operating Mutts, Manners and More, Amy is still a mother to two, grandmother to three, a wife to her husband Kevin, raises and shows her Australian Shepherds, is active in her church, coaches Special Olympics basketball each winter, is still the 4-H dog leader for Pettis County, is a founding member of TAILS (therapy dogs impacting lives), President of the Sedalia Kennel Club, Vice President of the Show Me State Australian Shepherd Club, and helps keep things going on their farm. She is busier now in retirement than she ever was as a teacher and coach.
