10/07/2025
This is going to be long, but is an overdue update on life and business that I’m finally ready to share.
Life has felt really heavy the last couple of months. I’ve struggled to find joy in my work due to many outside factors and I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t considered giving up this career.
But each time I got close, it didn’t stick. The new paths I was looking at became dead ends. The thought of telling you all I was done felt crushing.
So instead, I pivot yet again 💃🏻😂
(Fun fact about me, Friends is my all time favorite show and is often playing in the background while I work. If your dogs hide or get really excited when they hear this theme song, it’s because they associate it with getting a bath 😂😂😂)
The first change I’m making, I already posted about. I will be having to stand firm in my new client (and some current client) weight restrictions until I’m working outside of my house. The toll on my body in such a small space with heavy, uncooperative pups and of grooming dirty dogs inside our home has been a major stressor and I’ve hit a breaking point recently where I knew this was no longer sustainable. The whole point of working in the house was to work with my baby at the time I reopened, but we have found an amazing daycare provider that gives me the freedom to change this! 🙌🏻
I have an amazing space in mind that I’m hoping I’ll be moving into in the spring. The location is perfect (literally where I’ve wanted to be since becoming a business owner 4 years ago and close to my house!) and it would open up a world of possibilities. Grooming would continue to be my main focus, but in a beautiful, inviting, spa like setting with room for growth, the addition of retail products again, and new services. I’m excited to share more details when I have a more concrete timeline but just know that this move would completely up-level your pups experience and for that I am so excited!
With that all said, I know I’ve tried to rebrand before and it didn’t stick but this feels different. I’m going to solely focus on dogs and will not be taking cats, which creates confusion with the current name. I have a new name and fresh aesthetic picked out and in the works but for now I’ll leave this page as is until closer to fully converting.
Last, but not least, at the beginning of this year I enrolled in some programs to really increase my skill level and then I took on so many new clients and booked myself so tightly that I’ve been unable to work on those programs nearly as much as I’ve wanted to. I’ve been saying yes to appointment requests on my off days that I schedule for schooling time, house resets due to the high amount of cleaning needed when doing this kind of work in the home, and just plain mental health days as a mom of 5 that has had seriously demanding evenings and weekends full of our recent wedding planning, kids fall sports, etc! Not to mention the evening and weekend appointments I’ve had to accommodate due to cancellations and then no room to reschedule due to the busyness of it all 😮💨
So, please know that if I’m no longer able to accommodate you outside of my regular hours that I have set - it is not personal, it’s work/life balance so that I can continue and enjoy this career path for many years to come.
For right now, Im going to let the creativity flow like the changing of the season and then hunker down through the winter to make this all come to fruition with spring. 🌸
As always, I appreciate you all.
More to come. 🫶🏻
