We are Richard and Carol Doggett, a husband and wife team that began our training in 1975...33 years ago! We were taught by a family member who had successfully completed training at the famous New York School of Dog Grooming some years before. In the latter part of 1975 we began our professional career as one of the first in the nation to offer a mobile pet grooming service. We continued with this successful business for the next 10 years. In 1980 we began designing, building and marketing turnkey mobile grooming units on a small scale. Along with these sales we also provided grooming training. In 1985 we sold our grooming business and relocated, where we ran a retail/grooming salon for the next 5 years. We once again sold that business and were able to purchase commercial/home property of our own. We settled into this home business - one in which we could be with our three children full time. While raising them through young adulthood we were able to be there for them and also introduce each of them to the business world. So, as you can see, we are well versed in running this business from three different formats!

Our children are now grown and all three have followed in our footsteps. Our oldest began grooming at the age of 15 and started her own successful house-call service at the young age of 18! She now has a very nice Mobile Grooming service in South Carolina. Our middle daughter, who also helped us at an early age, has been running her own, likewise, successful business for the past 11 years... she's now age 26! With her rapidly-expanding business she was able to add a second Mobile Unit for her husband and a year later a third van for her brother...the last of our children, now 29.

We also have 3 other family members that groom full time. Remember the family members that taught us? Well, they finally retired after 35 years of full time grooming...became bored, and now run a very small shop on a part-time basis! When we get together for family gatherings we really have some interesting stories to swap!

We ourselves recently retired from the trade and since 1992 have been devoting our time to sharing this successful home study Career Development Package with individuals... nearly 16 years! Dog Grooming has been our life and we are happy to share the vast amount of knowledge we've acquired with anyone who is willing to put forth the effort to learn.