Like many children, when Jason and Steven Parker teenagers, they wanted a dog. And like many parents, they said no. So they came up with the next best thing to spend time with the man's best friend-they are starting a pet sitting business of their own.
Brothers and sisters, now 24 and 27, went ahead through lectures and eventually sold it to six figures. After they graduated, they then start to K9 Resorts daycare
"If you love dogs and want to get into the business of the dog, now is the right time," says Steven.
You might say a dog is also a businessman's best friend. Considering the size of the market. According to the American Pet Products Association, the dog found 28.8 million homes across America. (By contrast, the cat in 38 million, freshwater fish in the 11 million, 5 million birds in fish and seafood, at home only 700,000.) So it's no wonder so many small businesses and large corporations alike slobber over $ 50.84 billion spent on pets every year.
Modern-day dog business can trace its roots back in the 1920s and 1930s, when movie star dog Rin Tin Tin in his heyday. In 1918, just a few months before World War I ended, the Americans, Lee Duncan, find puppies famous Lorraine, France, in the kennel dogs have been bombed. The puppy had survived, and Duncan named Rin Tin Tin, taking the name of a children's Doll France gives American soldiers for good luck. Four years later, when the film director was having trouble persuading his performance of the Wolf in the movie "The Man From Hell's River", Duncan was lent out the dog, and dog's career was born. Dog Star in several silent films during the 1920s and four talkies during the ' 30s.