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Start Up Cost for Professional Pet Grooming Shop

Aug 29, 2008 12:24 PM

Click to view mygrooming's profile Professional mygrooming 7 posts since
Aug 26, 2008
*Prof. Pet Groomer w/ 20 yrs. experience looking for start up capital of $8,000 - $10,000 </strong<br />
I am a hard worker with a career that I have come to love and have a real passion for; Working with Domestic Animals. I am looking to start up my own pet grooming facility in the fast growing Woodbury, MN community. I've worked in the Woodbury, MN area for the last 10 years and I have done very well.

An opportunity has become available to me to lease out an 815 square foot building at a reasonable price. I have the bare essentials to start, but I still need the more expensive items that are needed to run my business, such as tubs, kennels to hold several pets at once, dryers, tables, a building sign, and miscellaneous grooming products to effectively groom the pets. I would like to also carry a small retail section for home-use grooming products and for pet food. I already have a solid client base waiting for me to get moved in and would be earning reasonable income right away.

In 1988 my aunt helped started me in the pet grooming industry. She invested in me for all my basic equipment; the facility, tables, ECT... was already installed. Just after all the agreements were signed my aunt had sold her pet store, where the grooming facility was located, to another private party. They had breeched my contract that I had with the store and after six months of starting the business I had to close the facility. During those six months I had built up 50% of the clientele base to be returning clients.

In 1994 I rebuilt the grooming clientele/department for a Veterinary Clinic after four months of no groomer. By 1996 I had grown it enough to support three full time pet groomers, each grooming seven pets per day. The business is still continuing today and for each year that I was there the facility was voted "Best Place to Groom Your Pet".

I started work for a major pet corporation in 2001 in the Midway Area and then in 2003 was transferred to the Woodbury area for same company. In 2004 the facility was also voted "Best Place to Groom Your Pet". In 2003 I also receive a First Place Award in competition for pet grooming.

My goal is to become a Master Pet Groomer for our field. It helps in credentials of teaching students, teaching fellow groomers like me, show's my clients that I do know what I am talking about and to have a higher end in pricing because of my knowledge. I will also increasing my knowledge by going to seminars for my continuing education in our field.

I have the know-how and the drive; I just need an Angel to believe in me like my clients have for years. If you need further information please feel free to contact me. I am looking to start the business with in two months.
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Click to view Bluesuit's profile Mogul Bluesuit 102 posts since
Oct 23, 2007
1. Re: Start Up Cost for Professional Pet Grooming Shop Aug 29, 2008 2:15 PM
You certainly do have the qualifications. In the event you can not come up with the funding to start your own grooming shop - have you considered maybe having "onsite" services - you can travel to the pet owner's home and do the grooming in the comfort of the "pet's" home. Kind of like a "mobile" groomer. The costs to start this will be substancially lower. This maybe a good first step before opening shop.
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Aug 6, 2007
2. Re: Start Up Cost for Professional Pet Grooming Shop Aug 29, 2008 2:34 PM
Start Up Cost for Professional Pet Grooming Shop, Welcome

As Bluesuit said "You certainly do have the qualifications"

Have you developed a Business and Marketing Plan. A Bus Plan is one of the
first items an investor will want to see.

Good luck, LUCKIEST
Click to view mygrooming's profile Professional mygrooming 7 posts since
Aug 26, 2008
3. Re: Start Up Cost for Professional Pet Grooming Shop Sep 16, 2008 11:20 AM
in response to: LUCKIEST
Hello Lucky,

Sorry this site is still pretty new to me. And for the last few weeks I've been pretty busy with kids going back to school.

As far as a business plan yes I have one done, a financial plan, start up invetory list, I also have demographics for the community and a 2004 demographic of the pets in the community. On my financial plan from my calculations I am show that I will immediately being in the black and that is starting out with the bear minium of clients per day, per week and per month and slowly increasing to end up with 7 to 8 clients per day by the end of the year, equaling about 140 to 160 pets per month. After January I have a possiblity of increasing to another groomer which in return could do the same number of pets and adding on a bather that can bath about 8 to 10 pets per day. The average ticket per pet groomer will average $35 to $45 per pet and as for a bather their average ticket per pet is $10 to $20.

Thanks,
Lisa