sponsor of the month By Lena DeZutti
BASTET CAT CARE AJ Gegenheimer is an Indiana native, hailing from Chesterfield’s North 40 Park campground. She has felt a calling to the care and keeping of cats since her childhood. At the age of 6, she knew she wanted to be a veterinarian, and, at age 16, she discovered the veterinary technician profession. Her pursuit began in earnest in 1987 when she earned her associate’s degree in applied science at Purdue. In 1991, she became a Registered Veterinary Technician (RVT), began pet sitting in 1995, and, in 2002, switched from dog and cat care to exclusively looking after cats.
In 2016, Gegenheimer began offering several cat-related care services through her place of business: Bastet Cat Care and Sitting, Inc. Her services include but are not limited to: sitting, nail trims, potty patches, shave downs, litterbox scooping/cleaning, giving medications, fluid therapy, expressing bladders, vet visits, and other cat-related services. As an RVT, Gegenheimer is also trained to catch potential medical issues in cats before they would normally be noticed. That means she can alert an owner to major medical problems such as diabetes, kidney disease, cardiac disease, etc., and ideally get the animal into treatment sooner.
40 Special Needs Living • June 2022
