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Speaker 5: What's going on, buddy hungry?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 5: Thanks to you because you said in the in and
outs of and Now, I want in and out Burger
which isn't in Jersey, but I I have gotten to
try it because my sister in law's wedding a couple
of years ago in Arizona.
Speaker 2: Wow. So the ins and outs of starting your own
dog rooming business reminded you of of in and out
Burger food food?
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, And I can't even eat in and out
Burger's on the West coast, on the West coast, and
and I don't eat meat anymore, so basedly, all in all,
I'm very sad. Now, just like that, you got to
rethink some things automatically. Automatically, it's very easy.
Speaker 2: Anthony's upset now because he can't have in and Altberger.
Speaker 5: Like twice, I can't have it, can't have it even
if it was here.
Speaker 2: That's what he thought about.
Speaker 5: You ever have in an Alberger?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I did?
Speaker 5: Guy was in cal you went to California.
Speaker 2: I went to Cali, baby.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh you know it's out there too, Carl's Junior,
carl Ju there. Speaking of that food. Since we like
to talk directly to I think we did it a
couple of weeks ago when we talked to be directly
and told them to sponsor the show. We still haven't
heard back, but we'll keep you guys posted. I'm getting
kind of tired of the Carls Junior commercials that we're here. Yes,
there is no Carl's Junior here, so stop it, stop it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why yeah, why are you advertising here? Like you know,
we were not going to like take a plane ride
over to the West coast to get Carls or are we?
Speaker 5: Maybe? Maybe well, they need to have a veggie burger
for me.
Speaker 2: Isn't there Carl's Junior down South Jersey? Though?
Speaker 5: I don't think so, No, Pa, Pa, maybe I don't
think so.
Speaker 2: You know what, put one up here, build one.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna look it up. This is this is hard hitting.
That's how we do things here, guys, exactly.
Speaker 2: And trust me, this has everything to do with starting
up your own dog grooming business. We have to get information.
Speaker 5: We got to get this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, CARLS Jr.
Speaker 5: Is there, Carl's junior in New Jersey. Currently, the only
Carls Junior in New Jersey is in Somerset.
Speaker 2: Dude, that's not that far.
Speaker 5: Oh wait a minute, did Carls Junior make it to
Jersey because this is from two years ago. Three wait,
this is from twenty eighteen. Eighteen. More locations are being
planned for the Garden State.
Speaker 2: Wow, thank you.
Speaker 5: Wow, dude, that's awesome. I can't eat it.
Speaker 2: I can don't care.
Speaker 5: Man, Why did I do this to myself to become
that hungry? I Well, you're the one who's in and
out's dog grooming, and here we are talking about fast
food again. It's grooming.
Speaker 2: It's a figure of speech, anthony ins and outs, you know,
like the dudes, don't you know. I can't help. But
if you go to food all the time.
Speaker 5: Whatever, Well, let's let's teach everybody how to start a
dog grooming business and get out of here so we could.
Speaker 2: Eat all right? Well, yeah, we're driving a Summerset after this.
Speaker 5: Clearly clearly even me, even if I can't eat anything,
I'm in a window shop. I'll move there, gonna move
to the summerset we move to Stars.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I don't move there. But you know, so the
in and out burger of starting your own dog dog rooming,
burger groom. So yeah, one of the things that people do, right,
and we all do this whenever we have this like
great idea that we're going to start a business, is
we always start to fantasize, right, we all start doing
a thing like you know, if I just sold twenty
of these, you know, if I sold twenty a week,
you know at ten bucks. You know, like we always
fantasize about that. So people do that a lot with
dog rooming. They'll say, man, if I can groom twenty
dogs a day, you know, six days a week, you know,
it'll be making like eight thousand dollars a week and
making you know, four hundred thousand dollars a year. Yeah.
The only problem with that is, Okay, you're not going
to groom twenty dogs a day. You'll be lucky if
you can groom two okay a year, they me. You know,
it's the truth though, you know, like reality check, Okay,
a lot of times people will try to get into
this business for the money right off the bat. That's
a really bad idea. Yeah, don't get into this business
for the money unless unless you are you know, a
multi millionaire, you have the money and you can afford
to hire professional dog roomers and you know do that,
then yes, you you can do something like that. But
we're talking about you know, the average, the average folk here,
you know that go to in and out burger in
places like that. Yea average.
Speaker 5: Well, we we we tried once, not twenty, but we
remember it was like a couple of months ago. We
were like, let's do nine dogs a day. Yeah, you know,
and we did it. It was it was it was
like a short week we had. We had done a
couple of podcasts and filmed a couple of videos, so
we only do it for like three days, and we
were like, let's do it. Let's do it, and let's
let's make that that four hundred thousand dollars. Let's just
I remember, I open mouth slept on my couch that
it's higher weekend after we did that for three days, so.
Speaker 2: I fell asleep on the toilet ball.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I just you know.
Speaker 2: I was just that tired.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's so quality of life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're ye, try bathing a dog. Try grooming a dog,
and you tell me, if you could do twenty a day,
highly unlikely. I'm sure there's some you know, phenomenal dog
groomers out there that could probably do that, and you know,
but again we're talking about the average folk here that
normally are not going to be able to do that
amount of dog and especially if you don't have any experience,
if you don't have dog grooming experience, that's not going
to work for you at all. But we're talking about
that little fantasy part of opening up your own dog
grooming business, all right. So here's the other thing. So
let's get that under our belt that you really want
to have experience. You want to either be a dog
groomer or you need to be able to afford good
dog groomers, quality dog groomers. Not you're fly by night
dog groomers.
Speaker 5: Not.
Speaker 2: You know, you're talking about dog groomers who more than
likely went to dog grooming school or they learn through
the ranks, and they have a lot of dog rooming
experience in order to do that. But most people are
dog roomers themselves and they're looking to open up their
own business. Secondly, on that, you want to choose a
good location. Location is everything. First of all, you want
to be where the dogs are. That makes a big difference,
as you know. Yeah, you know, like you know, like
you probably don't want to, you know, like open up
a dog rooming business in the middle of the ocean
and you.
Speaker 5: Know, right like you know the floaters. Yeah, that's what
you could call it, which I wouldn't recommend that name either,
because it's right.
Speaker 2: You know, So you want to you want location is everything.
You want to be able to you know, definitely be
in an area that has dogs and uh, you know,
is maybe even short of a dog grooming place like
a business.
Speaker 5: You know, like you want to go to a place
that has dogs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to go to a neighborhood that actually
has dogs.
Speaker 5: What would they do without us?
Speaker 2: See without this show right now, you're not gonna farewell
opening up your own dog room business, I'm telling you
right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, don't open it in the middle of the ocean. Guys.
I mean, come on enough with that.
Speaker 2: Enough you know that that that that that idea has
floated away.
Speaker 5: Enough with the mountaintop clipping dog room, you know, like, yeah,
don't do that. Don't go to Everest and open up right. Granted,
there's probably a lot of huskies up.
Speaker 2: There right the foothills of Tennessee or anything like that.
Speaker 5: Okay, like Greenland, Yeah, is Greenland the one that's all Ice?
I learned about that and then Ice Iceland is hot,
is beautiful?
Speaker 2: I think, so, yeah, that's that's That's the thing.
Speaker 5: I don't know for all. Greenland is gorgeous, and dog
grooming flourishes over there. Don't listen, don't listen us.
Speaker 2: So anyway, location is a big thing to definitely have
to figure out. And also consider what type of dog
groomer you are. Are you getting into mobile dog grooming?
Are you going to groom out of your house or
your garage, your basement, there's all different aspects of dog grooming.
Are you going to rent a store like we do?
We have a storefront? Okay, So if you're going to
rent a store, it's going to be expensive. You're going
to have a lot of expenses. Your rent is going
to be your major expense depending on where you are.
I mean, rents can be you know, I don't know,
fifteen hundred dollars to five thousand dollars a month, So
it really depends on where you are. Your area as
far as rent is concerned, and that's going to be
like probably your main expense.
Speaker 5: That's where you have to budget because that's where you
have to figure out how many dogs can you do
a day? Because if your rent is twenty five hundred dollars,
it's a lot of dogs.
Speaker 2: Man, that's a lot of dogs, man. Yeah, an average
price of seventy bucks a dog, right, Okay, so you
know there's places in Manhattan and there's places in la
where you know rents are thirty thousand dollars a month, Okay,
so you know they can justify charging two three, four,
five hundred dollars a dog grooming. So there's huge variable.
But again we're just kind of talking about the average
areas where we live common folk, the common folk area,
so that's where we are, the common folk. But you
have to consider your overhead. Part of your overhead would
be your supplies. You're going to be putting out money
for supplies. Shampoo, clippers, brushes, cream rinses, blow dryers. There's
an endless amount of things that dog groomers use that
you know require that you require to groom a dog.
So your supplies are not really that bad though, you
know what I mean, because shampoo does go a long way.
Speaker 5: You know, shampoo goes along it's supplies, and grooming only
really really suck when you're first getting started because nothing
outside of some pairs of nail clippers and some brushes,
nothing is only like ten bucks. Everything else that you
need is thirty dollars, one hundred dollars, two hundred and
fifty dollars. So getting started with your tools sucks. But
once you have them, you're right, Like, you know, you're
gonna use your nail clippers for a long time. Look, sure,
we showed yours a couple episodes ago. Uh, you know,
shampoo goes a long way, especially the concentrated shampoo that
you add water to it and you can make gallons
out of one little squirt of it.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, like you know, so you know, but you
know again like grooming tables are expensive, You're grooming tubs
are expensive. So yes, Anthony's right, your initial you know,
put out there is just going to be a lot.
Speaker 5: Setting up is scary.
Speaker 2: Setting up is scary. You know, you can look to
probably put out at least I would say fifteenhou twenty maybe,
you know, depending on you know, I mean, if you're
coming up with your first and last month's rent and
all of that stuff.
Speaker 5: Plus cages.
Speaker 2: Cages are good, good quality cages.
Speaker 5: Yeah, unless you're doing it out of your garage. Yeah yeah,
I mean they just get plastic kennel's.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: Cages are three thousand dollars. Sure. How much were our cages?
Speaker 2: Yeah? About thirty five hundred parties five hundred bucks. Yeah,
you know, we have a big, you know, nice cage
U in it and everything. We actually featured it on
one of our YouTube videos.
Speaker 5: What a nightmare that was.
Speaker 2: That was a nightmare because we had to build.
Speaker 5: Them and you did most of that yourself.
Speaker 2: Yes, I did. Yeah, in the middle of the night.
Speaker 5: I didn't feel like doing it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He'll go to an out burger though. So uh oh,
you know what, I forgot to get the clippers. I
wanted to show the clippers, your and his clippers. Yeah,
why because they're expensive, you know, I wanted to.
Speaker 5: Show so you want to show off there. These are expensive. Here,
I just got them. I just got them, just got them.
Speaker 2: We're very proud of I'm proud of it. Whatever. Anyway,
get them after break, Okay, we'll get it after break.
I'll show you guys, you know what we're talking about
as far as equipment. But yeah, your initial you know,
uh setup is going to be pretty expensive. Supplies after that,
like you said, they're not that bad. You know, you
could probably look to spend I would say between laid, sharpening, shampooing.
Depending again on how many dogs you're grooming, you're probably
gonna spend about what three hundred bucks a month.
Speaker 5: Could be even less, or it could be a little
It depends on the on the quality of the dogs
that you're Like, you know, if if your specialty, I
guess we'll call it that is, oh I I d
mat dogs and I shaved dogs down, you're gonna need
a crap ton of clipper Uh right, what would you
call it? Keep up maintenance?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, a clipper lube. Your clippers
are gonna die, your blades are gonna dull out. Yeah.
So these are all these little the micro expenses, micromanager,
your dog grooming business could be a little bit rough. Also,
you know, it's also the type of business that you know,
it's very difficult to do single handed, Like you know,
one person can't do it. You're gonna need an assistant.
You're gonna have to either, you know, pay for another
dog roomer if you want to upscale your business a
little bit, or you know, you're gonna have to you know,
hire a bay or fluffer. There's no way you're gonna
do twenty dogs a day without having helped. So again,
we're being real here as far as opening up your
dog rooming business, and you want to be a dog
roomer yourself, like anything, If your help doesn't show up,
you know, it's on you. You know, book a ten
dog day and now you're on your own. You're gonna
be there for some hours.
Speaker 5: That used to happen to us every once in a
while when I was younger.
Speaker 2: You know, and we were doing ten dogs a day
at the time, remember it. You know, Anthony would call
me at like midnight. I'd be sleeping, nervous as hell
about the following day because we have a ten dog day,
you know, and Anthony would call me, you know, you know,
granted Anthony was only like sixteen years old at the
time he died.
Speaker 5: It would be like me and Eric were thinking about
driving down a wild wood tonight. You know, do you
really need me tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And I have three golden retrievers that I can't lift
because I have two hernias.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of need.
Speaker 5: You, kind of need you, you know, Can I leave early?
Like it would be a negotiation of like just I
don't want to be here? Can I go have fun
with my friend? Because he has a driver's license and
I don't.
Speaker 2: Right so here? So I want to add to this topic. Then,
so then part of opening up your own dog rooming businesses,
don't hire your son, Okay, just don't don't hire your son.
Get somebody else, because it's gonna be you know.
Speaker 5: Like I wouldn't get here till like ten thirty. Oh yeah,
like you know, we start at eight thirty.
Speaker 2: I bathe four dogs already, I'm already dying. I'm already hurting,
you know, And we got to get through our day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, what like you used to let me get away
with a lot, I couldn't get away with a lot.
I don't know that anymore.
Speaker 2: No, you've become more responsible and now you're a daddy yourself.
So you know what, screw you, dude. Payback is a
b I.
Speaker 5: That's going on a T shirt.
Speaker 2: Bet life. It's bet life, baby.
Speaker 5: You gotta be careful man.
Speaker 2: Come on, man, ain't no curse, and it is a
family show.
Speaker 5: You know what's really messed up before when we were
talking about food. You guys can't see, but I can
see him, and our producer thought he was slick and
he was eating that whole time we we.
Speaker 2: We noticed Mark eating yep.
Speaker 5: And and if I wasn't hungry before, I'm starting hungry now.
Speaker 2: Like it's like, you know, I'm looking, I'm going, man,
what is he eating right now?
Speaker 1: Eating?
Speaker 2: So good? So good right now?
Speaker 5: And that's not why I brought up in an out burger.
I really, I didn't look at the screen he was
and the next thing you know, he's eating, he's forking
something right into his mouth. Anyway, I don't feel like
doing this today. I'm not hungry hungry now.
Speaker 2: I know it's like, didn't do that on purpose. Yeah,
because we were talking about in an out burger, look
over eating he's eating just to do what?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Is he eating in an out burger with a.
Speaker 5: Spoon might have been like a pasta, oh, host Alfredo
or something.
Speaker 2: It looked good.
Speaker 5: It was so good. That was cruel, man, that was cool.
Speaker 2: Jeez.
Speaker 5: We opened the show by saying we were hungry.
Speaker 2: And he goes, now, now I'm starving.
Speaker 5: At least turn your camera off so I can't see you. Yeah, man,
messed up, Mark.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to say anything.
Speaker 5: Yeah I did.
Speaker 2: I know I'm hungry.
Speaker 5: I don't mess around when it comes with food. Oh man,
he just he's eating pizza, eating pizza. No, come on, man,
Oh he's sending pizza emojis.
Speaker 2: Oh pizza emo. God, I'm starving. All right. Yeah, so
you are you guys going to open up a groom shop? Okay,
so again we left off it. Don't hire your son.
I'm going to reiterate that, and don't hire your son.
Definitely not because you know what, you may eventually, you know,
start a podcast with him and then now you're doing this.
Speaker 5: And then he'll make fun of your sleeves. He didn't.
You didn't roll up your sleeves.
Speaker 2: No, dude, I didn't. I couldn't wear that from you know, yeah,
because you said I looked like a t bird.
Speaker 5: But birds are cool. It's not like I said, you
look like a pink lady.
Speaker 2: You said it was twenty twenty two outside.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's true. All you needed from the sleeves was,
you know, the pack of cigarettes rolled up in them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I look, I have this now it doesn't
have it. It's it's a different shirt.
Speaker 5: Was that like mesh? Nice it? Yeah, that looks comfortable.
Speaker 2: It's it's one of those dry state you know, like
workout stay gym. Like a gym, you stay dry in it.
You stay dry.
Speaker 5: You spent a lot of time in the gym. No,
once or twice a decade of course. Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, if you're going to open up a
dog rooming business, you need to get a gym membership
so you stay in shape.
Speaker 5: You know, it's not a lote around, but that's actually
a really good idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you need to be in good shape if you're
going to be a dog room or some you know,
because you're on your feet all day. It's hard work. Yeah,
you're gonna be contorting, bending, lifting, it's very very physical.
So if you guys want to open up your own
dog rooming business, yeah, you got to be in some
kind of shape. Man. Yeah.
Speaker 5: You don't necessarily have to be skinny or anything, but
you have to be conditioned.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so stand, stand, be ready to stand for long
periods of time.
Speaker 5: You know, I get to sit a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I try. I sit on a little ladder.
Speaker 5: But that's yeah. And even because you try to something,
we have the stool that kind of yeah, you just
you just can't groom like that. Though you can do
certain dogs like the head, I guess they're real small.
You can do that, but then you got to get up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. On some dogs that are that stay
still enough, you know, you could sit on a stool
and you can groom them, you know, but most cases,
you know, you're standing. You know, you can't sit down
and groom a golden doodle.
Speaker 5: You know, I don't even like thinking about grooming golden doodles.
Speaker 2: It's a three person job.
Speaker 5: Guys, stop buying golden doodles, please, Well no, they're a
sweet dog, but like we know, they're the best.
Speaker 2: But we say it all the time, if you're gonna
buy a golden doodle, you need to definitely acquire some
grooming skills.
Speaker 5: That is a dog that we tell people all you
should learn how to groom at home because we don't
want to do your golden doodle.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not that we don't want to, it's that
I don't want to. I have a hernia, you know,
and you whatever, you don't want to.
Speaker 5: I just don't want to. I don't have a hernia.
I just I'm tired and I'm hungry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, golden doodles, big massive dogs require
you know, a lot of grooming, and we mention it
all the time. Like you know, if you have a
golden doodle, whatever dog groomer you're bringing your dog to do,
they have to schedule out that dog. You know, you
can't take certain dogs if you have this massive golden
doodle or two that you have to groom in a day.
But it's a good thing to mention if you are
going to open up your own dog rooming business. Is
that the degree of difficulty between grooming a golden doodle
and giving I don't know, a French bulldog a bath
and nails.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's night and day.
Speaker 2: It's just night and day.
Speaker 5: We're still not easy, but it's compared to the golden doodle.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. So if all dogs that came into a
grooming shop were you know, French cheese or or short
coated Docsin's or chihuahuas or something, yeah, you could do
twenty thirty dogs a day. But that's not the reality.
It just doesn't work that way.
Speaker 5: We should make that our specialtyes.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, there's enough of them around, I'll tell you
that true.
Speaker 5: I'm glad that they're getting popular. Yeah, I'm kidding around.
I love golden doodles, but grooming them is really challenging.
Speaker 2: It is challenging.
Speaker 5: Like for like a year there, everybody was just buying
golden doodles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, stop it, yes, and.
Speaker 5: Or mix it up a little.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's like when everybody was buying Springers and we used
to have like five Springers that we did.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, yeah.
Speaker 5: Man, remember Tricksy.
Speaker 2: Tricks and Tricksy was a bringer. She was a streat film. Yes, yeah, yeah,
she's one of our early early videos. Yeah. Yeah. Oh boy,
the cringe worthy, the cringe video. So it's true. And
people who own golden doodles are struggling to find people
to groom them because, you know, groomers could only take
so many. And we're being real here that this is
like we like to be honest, you know, we need
more dog groomers, and that's part of why we're doing
the show. If you're a dog groomer and you want
to open up your own dog rooming business. Then you
really should be listening to this show because it's somewhat informative,
will help you. Yeah, because call us message.
Speaker 5: Think about anybody listening or watching right now who was
on the fence about a golden doodle. But maybe they're
older and oh I can't I can't maintain that dog
at home. We we just saved them a whole lot
of trouble. Yeah, because now they're going to go get
a friend shiet exactly.
Speaker 2: Now they're going to get a frenchie. Another cost, aside
from your your overhead is you know you're gonna have
your normal bills too. You're gonna have your electric bill,
You're going to have your gas bill, You're going to
have your water bill. These things all add up. Your employees.
All of this is an expense. So you know your
average electric bill is going to be whatever two two
fifty In the summer months, I mean my electric bill
goes up to three one hundred dollars or more winter months.
My gas bill is boom, it's you know it's high man.
You know it's creeping up on four hundred bucks a month.
So these things you have to consider if you're going
to open up your own dog rooming business, and you're
going to rent out a store, You're going to have
the normal overhead costs. It does cost a lot of
money to maintain a dog rooming business. So everybody you
know thinks that, oh my god, you charge so much
for dog rooming. Listen, most dog groomers are getting a
very very small piece of what they're charging you. You know,
when all is said and done and the expenses are.
Speaker 5: Paid, you know what I mean, mostly expenses and then
physical expense, and then you get to go to in
and out Burger on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Right right, Like, you know, after this show, you're going
to have people, you know, kind of asking why would
you ever want to open up business? You know, and
it's the truth.
Speaker 5: And the other half people are just going to be like, dude,
you want to go to in an outburg?
Speaker 2: These guys exactly, these guys are there's one in Somerset.
Speaker 5: I wonder what the producer guy is eating.
Speaker 2: We never figured that out, figured that out. Where's the
show going? But yeah, these are just some of the
things you're going to need an accountant too. Just another expense.
You know, you're going to need an accountant to figure
out your you know, your taxes. You're going to be
paying taxes on all of this money that you're you're
taking in. But not to discourage anybody, the one great
thing about dog grooming is it's a very consistent business.
There's definitely job security. You know, it's a great business.
You will be able to pay your bills once you
you know, once you scale up and you're able to
do you know, a good at least, you know, seven
eight dogs a day. Once you get to that part
of it, you'll be able to make some money. And
can you scale this business. You can, but it's very
difficult to see all this business eat good dog groomers
and they're hard to come by.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and when you first start, focus on not hurting
any dogs because if you could do that, then you can.
Because some people start and they worry so much about
how the grooming looks, how the grooming looks, and yes
that's important. Somebody's giving you money to groom their dog.
Sure you want to make them look cute. But as
long as you're not hurting any dogs, you're gonna get
consistent work. Because we've had people come back to us
a thousand times. Customers came to us for their dog's
entire life and didn't like the grooming the whole time.
They'll stick with you if they don't really like the
grooming that much. They won't stick with you if you
hurt their dog. Yeah, so if you want to you know, accidents, accident.
Yeah I'm not saying you know you eligent, but you know,
accidents do happen.
Speaker 2: But yeah, you can hurt a dog very easily. You know,
a dog can move. A dog can buckets foot or
twist its head real quick while you're scissoring an ear.
It's a dangerous job. And that's where grooming experience comes in.
That's where you know you have to even a more
experienced dog groomer is eventually going to you know, you're
gonna nike a dog. Sometimes it happens you're gonna nick
a pad. Yeah, you're gonna nick a pad. Hopefully you
don't injure the dog in it in such a terrible
way where you know it needs stitches and all of that.
And again, it is that kind of business. It's a
scary business. It's a very very high stress business because
you are so responsible for you know, safety. But if
I could say anything, if you're planning on opening up
a dog grooming business. Go slowly, get educated, go to
a dog grooming school, or learn off of an experienced
dog roomer. Work for somebody for a while, you know,
develop your skills, get faster, and learn the ins and outs.
Speaker 5: I think that it should be required that you need
to be somebody's apprentice to get because tattoo artists do it. Yep,
you need to be an apprentice for a while. Yeah,
because it's really important, Like tattoo are you're going to
learn how to you know, mark somebody for the rest
of their life, right, you need to be an apprentice
for a while, And they do. I think they do
it for a long time. Like it's not just like, oh, yeah,
you're an apprentice for two months. I think you're an
apprentice for a year at least or something like that.
I could be wrong.
Speaker 2: Do it long enough where you're if you're an apprentice
to see if you even like it. You makee groom
dogs for a year and say, hey man, this is
not for me.
Speaker 5: You know, as an apprentice, you could now you don't
have to worry about learning how to bathe, because you're
going to know that by the end of that for sure.
And now you could bathe, and that's something that you'll
be able to do really really quick. Going forward, you'll
get to see how the business is run, all the stress,
all of the risks, how not fun it is. And
then at the end of your apprenticeship you have your
grooming license now and you could do whatever you want
with it. And then at least you know, okay, yeah,
you know this this is for me, or nope, this
is not for me, as most people end up saying, yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 2: Know, in this business, go slowly, move slowly, see if
you like it, learn the skill, and then you can
make a better decision and consider the expenses. Wherever you are,
wherever your area is, consider your expenses, and if you're
not profiting, if you're not making money, then don't do it,
because then that's just kind of a.
Speaker 5: Stupid is whether you're in Greenland or in the middle
of the ocean, you're gonna have expenses, yes, with your
grooming shop.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know, I'm going to open up a grooming
shop in the Atlantic somewhere, and.
Speaker 5: Then we could expand the Pacific. And now we're cross country.
Speaker 2: There's got to be away.
Speaker 5: Now we're national.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's got to be away.
Speaker 2: Let's let's go to break and we'll come back with
our funny common segment.
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Speaker 5: Welcome back to Groomer Humor on that Play Radio. We
are your host saman Me Ray, hanging out with my
dad Rudy V and we are talking about the ins
and out burgers of opening your own grooming shop for
your own grooming operation as a whole. The dues and
the dots. We like to talk about that a lot.
D I feel like we say that a lot do's
and donts of dog grooming. But it's easy to talk
about because.
Speaker 2: There's sees man anounce, the ins and outs, Spaghetti taranty. Yeah,
me too. I'm starving. That's why we're gonna we're gonna
wrap this up. My mouth was watering. We're starving. Yeah,
But anyway, this is our funny comments. I went like
this one. I just just the thought of this happening.
What's funny? I didn't tell you this one. This one
is this guy. I'm sorry, he said, I just got
a Jack Russell puppy and he is tearing my house apart.
What do I do? Just I could just picture, you know,
because Jack just tearing it up. Man.
Speaker 5: Jack Russell's they kill rats, right, Is that is that?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 5: What group is that?
Speaker 2: Class?
Speaker 5: Terriers?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Like rat dog?
Speaker 5: Yeah, rat dogs. Yeah, Jack Russells are one of them.
Oh yeah, yeah, the.
Speaker 2: Big rat dog. They're trained to, you know, kill rats.
Speaker 5: So this roer guy's Jack Jack Russell is is just.
Speaker 2: Tearing up his house, like I could just picture him
like tearing up the pillow, you know, when the gun's note.
And then and then the guy comes home and he's
just sitting there wagging his tail.
Speaker 5: Like a hey, Jack Russells are sweet.
Speaker 2: Look at what I did?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: But yeah, and then he then he said, what should
I What would you do? Man? I wish I could
help you start a dog rooming business.
Speaker 5: I don't started dog rooming business in Greenland.
Speaker 2: In Greenland, somewhere in.
Speaker 5: Greenland, somewhere out in the ocean. Yeah, you got to
look into training my guy, I guess. But Jack Russell like, they're, oh,
they're setting their ways.
Speaker 2: They're a tough one.
Speaker 5: They're a tough fee to train, but they're every dog
is trainable. I guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jack Russells, they just you know, they're terrier, man,
and they like to do that. They like to just rip.
Speaker 5: Stuff up, dude. Like, well, speaking from experience that I
do not envy that guy because my cat, one of
my cats, chewing wires lately at random, and he's getting
more and more expensive because that it's one thing to
you know, you know, a stupid lamp all right, whatever,
it was fourteen bucks whatever. But now he's chewing up
my computer wires and one of them was a seventy
dollars webcam that now now I'm splicing wires on my
kitchen counter and you know, on a Sunday morning, all
for a webcam I barely use. But it's the principle
of the thing.
Speaker 2: Pet. Yeah, pets can be very destructive, so I don't
destructive pet. Yeah, my buddy, I don't know what to do.
Maybe some great training, like Anthony said, get some obedience training.
But I'm sorry, I can't stop laughing about do us
a favor videotape it posted or something, because that that's
really funny.
Speaker 5: I wonder Jack Russell, especially like if you're not home,
like if you have like a nest cam, and like
that's why he does it, Like you know, you want
to go out, You want to go out, Okay, you
know what, say goodbye to that cute little flower cushion
you got.
Speaker 2: Look at those pillows yep and take yep, take care.
Speaker 5: I wonder how you're gonna sleep tonight with no pillow
on your bed. You sleep like a prisoner coming home.
Speaker 2: You know, the molding off of your wall is getting
chewed off off.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because that's that's the thing. It's kind of what
I was saying with my cat, like what is getting damaged?
Because some things aren't really reparable. Like you you know,
what if he is chewing the mold, thing, you fix
your mold like you know, like right on the corner,
you know, like you know, if he's chewing that up,
now you need a whole new you know, hey man,
you know it's just what if he's like, I wonder
if it's peen on the house too? Probably right, it
doesn't sound good.
Speaker 2: It doesn't sound good, you know. Yeah, he just said,
you know, it's tearing my house, my entire house up,
you know, like you know the thing about that is
like it's probably not just the pillows. He's tearing my house.
Speaker 5: Carpet carpet, you know that's it. You know, got one
string out of place, and.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean, he's staring my he said,
stearing my house.
Speaker 5: Help me help? What should I What do I do?
It's like a twilight own.
Speaker 2: Like like he's coming to a dog grooming channel. He's asking.
Speaker 5: So that you know what that is bad because why
isn't he going to a dog training He probably already
did that Yeah, they couldn't help them.
Speaker 2: They sent them to us.
Speaker 5: No, I don't want to get sent to us.
Speaker 2: If you're sent to us, you're you're in trouble.
Speaker 5: We talk about in an Alt Burger. Yeah, we don't know.
I hope, I hope for his sake that at least
the dog is sweet, because some Jack Russells like to
kiss you and then bite you in the nose. Jack
Russell's and Karen Terriers. What's their problem.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: They're so sweet, but then they like, maybe they bite
out of love, like terriers.
Speaker 2: It's the terrier group, the terror terrorrier, their terror terror terror. Yeah,
but they are sweet. Well, good luck to you, man.
Speaker 5: I'm luck man.
Speaker 2: Our only suggestion is, you know again, you know, get
some training or move move maybe you know a create
of some sort o.
Speaker 5: Create create them. Yeah, like when you're not home, at
least you got to create. We used to do that. Yeah,
I used to have and he wasn't even destructive, but
we would create him when weren't home because we were
afraid of uh, I don't know, getting him getting stuck
somewhere in the house.
Speaker 2: And you know what, if there's a way, you know,
send them, send us a picture of him or something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because I bet he's cute as hell. Yeah. Well,
good luck to you man, Good luck man. So that's
gonna wrap things up.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much for watching, and thank you guys
so much for listening. We'd like to thank our producer,
Mark Winter. Thank you so much. Mark. If you haven't already,
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