About Staci Sutton

Staci Sutton is the founder of Mold Pups, a canine mold detection and assessment service based in Tennessee and traveling nationwide. Alongside her Australian Shepherd, Gus, Staci helps families, homeowners, buyers, and businesses identify hidden mold problems that traditional inspections often miss. Gus was professionally trained at Florida Canine Academy under Bill Whitstine and is trained to detect odor profiles associated with 16 types of toxic and problematic molds commonly found in buildings. Staci’s work is deeply personal. During her husband’s professional baseball career, he began experiencing persistent brain fog, exhaustion, and unexplained aches and pains. At the same time, their children struggled with frequent strep throat, ear infections, nosebleeds, and ongoing allergy-like symptoms with no clear cause. Despite many appointments, answers were hard to find. That season changed how Staci viewed homes and health. It led her to look more closely at the environments her family lived in and to understand how strongly buildings can influence how people feel. Those experiences are what led her to mold dogs. She wanted a way to help families find clarity when nothing else made sense. Her approach combines canine detection, visual assessment, moisture evaluation, and lab testing when appropriate, always staying in a detection and assessment lane, not remediation. Through Mold Pups, education, and community outreach, Staci is on a mission to help people “find the mold others miss.” With Gus by her side, she encourages families everywhere to Stay Nosey