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By on February 11, 2010 in Ideas

Dog walking is typically the kind of business that you start up in the summer to save money for a car, while you wait the two or three more years until you’re old enough to actually get your drivers license. It also means it’s often a fly-by-night service, where professionalism is the exception, according to Entrepreneur.com.

At least, that’s what Paul Mann decided back in 2002 when he was looking for a pet sitter in Berkeley, Calif.

“I went through the yellow pages, and I couldn’t find anyone I felt comfortable handing my keys or my pets to,” he says. “That’s when I had my aha! moment.”

Soon after, Mann, who had co-founded a high-tech job placement firm and founded a software company, bought a bag full of leashes and launched Fetch! Pet Care. His idea had legs–thousands of them. Within a year, his small company had 1,000 clients served by 70 pet sitters and two full-time dispatchers

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,203 posts to the site.

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  • http://redhotfranchises.com RedHotFranchises

    Dog walking is definitely a friendly niche business to be in, and you will always win in the long term and can be taken into the next level if you are truly a pet lover.
    Find some great pet franchise opportunities available at:http://www.redhotfranchises.com/franchises/Pet_Franchises

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