They’re number one in the “Number two” business, picking up where your pet left off. Often imitated; never “dooplicated.”
Don’t worry; Pet Butler is in on the joke.
“If you can’t laugh at yourself doing this business, you’ve got a real problem with yourself,” said Matt Boswell, founder and CEO — chief excrement officer, in this case — of Pet Butler Franchise Services, Inc.
Pet Butler franchises provide “pet waste cleanup service.” Customers pay for technicians to visit their yards and scoop up their pets’ feces.
Glamorous work it is not. “It’s the most disgusting job in the world,” Boswell said, “but the most inexpensive job to hire someone to do.”
Rick Ingram is one of three technicians working for the Panama City Pet Butler.
“I expected when we first started this to be harassed or teased,” he said. “But we haven’t been.”
Quite the opposite, in fact. Nike Tudge, Ingram’s wife and the owner and operator of the Panama City Pet Butler, said the poop-scooping business is booming. At the end of the first quarter of 2006, Pet Butler had more than 30 franchises across the country.
FranchiseBrief.com on July 16th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
This is quite a disgusting job but there is a great opportunity here. I guess their typical franchisee is not out there picking up the poop but he’s probably in his office developping business