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Best Pets
From the tastiest scoops to the splashiest influencers, here are your winners of the 2024 readers’ choice awards!
best animal hospital
Wintermere Pointe Animal Hospital
Step into the pet paradise where your furry friend is in paws-itively great hands! With fair and honest pricing, they pamper pets without ruffling your wallet’s feathers.
Runner-Up: Winter Garden Animal Hospital
best doggie daycare/boarding
Pawsh Pet Resort & Spa
With splash pads, spa treatments, playtime and treats, your dogs might not want to come home.
Runner-Up: Pet Paradise
best dog walker/pet sitting
Horizon West Pet Care
Michael treats pets like royalty, giving them the same love and respect as their owners. Plus, he’ll care for your home like it’s his own—no monkey business!
Runner-Up: The Savvy Sitter
best pet spa & grooming
PupLuxe Grooming
Let Charlene unleash her magic and leave your pet feeling fur-tastically fresh! She’s committed to giving dogs the pampering they’ve been begging for.
Runner-Up: The Paw Spa
best specialty pet store
Gracie's of Winter Garden
Gracie’s is your fur-ever friend’s favorite one-stop shop, offering a tail-wagging selection of treats, food, and supplements!
Runner-Up: Woofgang Bakery & Treats
best pet treats
Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming
Gourmet dog treats, all-natural ingredients, and tail-wagging flavors, what dog doesn’t love a full bakery just for them?
Runner-Up: Gracie’s of Winter Garden
best veterinarian
Dr. Reyes | Graceful Paws Pet Clinic
PDr. Reyes is the purr-fect navigator to steer your pets toward their healthiest, happiest years. With her Fear Free Elite Certification, vet visits are a walk in the park.
Runner-Up: TJ Oakes | Oakes Animal Hospital
best pet spa & grooming
PupLuxe Grooming
Let Charlene unleash her magic and leave your pet feeling fur-tastically fresh! She’s committed to giving dogs the pampering they’ve been begging for.
Runner-Up: The Paw Spa
best specialty pet store
Gracie's of Winter Garden
Gracie’s is your fur-ever friend’s favorite one-stop shop, offering a tail-wagging selection of treats, food, and supplements!
Runner-Up: Woofgang Bakery & Treats
best pet treats
Woof Gang Bakery & Grooming
Gourmet dog treats, all-natural ingredients, and tail-wagging flavors, what dog doesn’t love a full bakery just for them?
Runner-Up: Gracie’s of Winter Garden
best veterinarian
Dr. Reyes | Graceful Paws Pet Clinic
PDr. Reyes is the purr-fect navigator to steer your pets toward their healthiest, happiest years. With her Fear Free Elite Certification, vet visits are a walk in the park.
Runner-Up: TJ Oakes | Oakes Animal Hospital
Putting Your Money
Where Our Mag Is
$10,000 for local charities!
To everyone who voted, shared, and rallied behind our second annual Readers Choice Awards—thank you! Your enthusiasm helped spotlight the people and places that make this community shine.
We’re also incredibly grateful to those who donated, purchased event tickets, or sponsored this year’s Award Gala celebration at Pilar’s. Whether it was generosity, marketing savvy, or a deep love for your community—you helped raise $10,000 for two incredible local causes.
Matthew’s Hope
Matthew’s Hope fosters the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of the homeless men, women, and children of our community by meeting basic needs, developing skills, and restoring dignity and independence.
Funds Raised: $5,000To Support: matthewshopeministries.org
Greater Clermont Cancer Foundation
Most cancer foundations focus on the future; their funds go to national-level research, aimed at one day finding a cure. What makes GCCF unique is that it focuses on reaching the people fighting cancer right here, right now.
Offering financial aid such as quality-of-life assistance, scholarships, and screening/test grants, as well as providing support, resources, education, and comfort, GCCF lessens the daily challenges encountered by patients and their loved ones. And as a volunteer-run organization, GCCF can ensure that 100% of funds raised go directly to the people who need it most.
Funds Raised: $5,000To Support: gccf.us
