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 We
are Richard and Carol Doggett, a husband and wife team that began our training in 1975...30
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 5
years... she's now age 25! 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
23.
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 11 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. |
