About Us

Meet Our Team 

Founder- Jill Merida

Jill is a 4H dog project leader in Ripley County, Indiana. She became involved with service dogs to help her son, Chris with autism, epilepsy, and Klippel-feil. After seeing the difference it made not only in his life, but in the lives of her entire family she knew she had found her life's work. She began helping others to train their own assistance dogs, and eventually started volunteering at Circle Tail. Now she rotates between her 4H students, training her current fosters, helping owner trainers, doing service dog education, and coordinating Therapy Dog events for the Tales To Tails literacy mentorship program. She is a CGC evaluator, and certified Therapy Dog handler with TDI. Not to mention homeschools two of her four children, and takes every dog seminar, and class within driving distance to further her dog training education.

Assistant- Rebecca Merida

Rebecca is Jill's daughter and biggest assistant. She has shown dogs in Ripley County's 4H dog show for the past 4 years. You can find her on every outing and training session.  She is an experienced service dog handler and is often seen shadowing those learning their service dog commands and skills. She is a certified Therapy dog handler with TDI and participates in ALL of the Tales To Tails literacy mentorship events.