Hi, I’m Adia Shanee,

For more than two decades, my work has centered around one question: What does this dog need in order to live well? Not simply behave better, eat better, or get through an appointment, but truly live better.

My career has taken me into veterinary practices, shelters, rescue organizations, homes, classrooms, and community programs. I have served as a canine behavior consultant for multiple veterinary practices, worked alongside shelters and the Fredericksburg SPCA, supported families through complex behavior cases, studied canine nutrition and herbalism, educated guardians and professionals, and developed programs centered around the physical, emotional, behavioral, social, and instinctual needs of dogs.

The Rewilded Wellness Center™ is where those pieces finally come together.

I Didn’t Build This From One Discipline

Behavior taught me to listen to what dogs communicate. Nutrition taught me to look more closely at what goes into the bowl and how it fits into the larger health picture. Herbalism expanded the way I think about the body as an interconnected system. Working alongside veterinary professionals reinforced the importance of collaboration, documentation, careful observation, and knowing when something belongs outside my professional scope.

And dogs themselves have continually reminded me that environment matters. Movement, sleep, scent, choice, relationships, nutrition, novelty, recovery, and access to the natural world all influence how a dog experiences life.

A dog cannot be completely understood through one behavior, one laboratory result, one food label, one training session, or one appointment.

The dog doesn’t live in departments. Neither should our thinking.

Behavior Is Part of the Health Story

Behavior is information. A dog who suddenly doesn’t want to be touched may not simply be difficult. Irritability can accompany discomfort. A dog struggling to settle may be anxious, overstimulated, under-rested, uncomfortable, or responding to something happening within their body or environment. Changes in movement, digestion, appetite, sleep, or physical comfort can sometimes show up first as changes in behavior.

That is why I have never been interested in looking at behavior completely separate from physical wellness. My role is not to diagnose disease or replace veterinary medicine. My role is to observe carefully, understand behavior deeply, help guardians recognize patterns, support the dog within my professional scope, and collaborate with the appropriate professionals when the story calls for more.

Nutrition + Whole-Dog Wellness

There is no universal perfect bowl. I look at the individual dog—their age, body condition, lifestyle, medical history, laboratory trends, digestive health, movement, appetite, medications, preferences, current diet, and what their family can realistically sustain.

As an Advanced Canine Nutritionist with additional education in fresh feeding, raw feeding, and animal herbalism, I help guardians better understand the choices in front of them and how nutrition fits into the larger health story of their dog. Raw, fresh, home-cooked, commercial, or somewhere in between, my work is not built around food shaming or forcing every family into one philosophy.

The dog in front of us comes first.

This whole-dog thinking is also why I created Wellness Blueprints™. Sometimes a guardian has veterinary records, laboratory results, medications, supplements, food, behavior changes, mobility concerns, digestive patterns, weight changes, and questions—but no clear way to see how those pieces fit together. A Wellness Blueprint creates space to step back, organize the story, recognize meaningful patterns, identify better questions, and help the guardian become a more informed participant in their dog’s care.

Nature Is Part of Wellness

Dogs experience the world through bodies and senses that are very different from ours. They need opportunities to sniff without being hurried, move across different terrain, investigate, forage, observe, make choices, encounter novelty, and then recover from it.

Nature has influenced my work for years because instinctual activity gives dogs opportunities to engage parts of themselves we cannot recreate by simply adding more toys, more play, or more stimulation. I do not believe a fulfilled dog is necessarily the busiest or most exhausted dog.

They need experience, and they need recovery from experience.

That rhythm became foundational to the Rewilded Wellness Center™ and to our belief in helping dogs feel better, move better, and live better.