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Cooper( pictured top left) gets a blow out from Dana Chavez-Rey outside a home in Rocklin. For 10 years, Dana and her husband, Alex, ran a successful brick-and-mortar pet grooming salon in West Sacramento, handling up to 30 dogs and cats a day. They managed a small staff and by the time they closed the business in 2015, their client database numbered nearly 4,000. Why give it up?“ It was just way too much,” says Dana. Her team
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spent two hours a day just cleaning and disinfecting the space. So the couple downsized— to a mobile business called A Purrfect Groomer that uses a van to make house calls throughout the Sacramento region.“ I went to the mobile conversion kicking and screaming, but now I love it and I wish I would have done it for my clients years ago,” Alex says, noting how an animal’ s anxiety greatly drops when grooming occurs in the comfort of their own environment. The groomers now have a client list of about 250 and see between 10- 15 animals a day, spending an hour per pet. Rosie( pictured far left) and Doodle also get the full-service treatment, which includes bathing, a blow out, nails trimmed, teeth brushed, ears cleaned, glands expressed and a haircut.“ We’ re pretty efficient in getting things done, and we’ re in and out while you’ re drinking your morning coffee,” Alex says. •
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