Pet Dog Groomer opens 12 Paws Pet Salon in Fairhaven Mattapoisett area
FAIRHAVEN — After remaining away for two years, Mattapoisett’s Kylie Panek has returned to the SouthCoast with the objective of making dogs as delighted as humanly possible.
“I like operating with the animals. I have been working with animals my total lifetime,” claimed Panek, 27, operator of 12 Paws Pet Salon in Fairhaven. “One thing about creating them look adorable, producing them truly feel better and looking at the owner’s reaction… I definitely like it.”
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Panek, a Mattapoisett native, commenced her job with horses, coaching, breeding and entire body clipping them for exhibits. She then transitioned to puppies.
“Dogs are more pleasurable simply because I get to do a great deal much more various creative issues where horses are kind of like a general grooming.”
In 2013, Panek graduated from Animal Actions College, an on line certification method for doggy grooming which demanded her to work 100 hours at a local groomer. She then worked in the spot for 6 a long time earning a status for her doggy-grooming abilities.
Connecting with the dogs
Panek says she loves connecting with animals on a psychological level, also. “I’m all about the animal conduct element. It really is quite worthwhile,” she said. “Actually, some men and women you should not have the tolerance or want to invest the time carrying out that. I really like that stuff.”
Panek recalled performing with a minor canine that demanded a muzzle when she very first began doing the job with him mainly because of his severe stress and anxiety.
“He arrived to me every single four months, and I couldn’t even contact him, he would just attempt to consume me, bite me, freak out, he would have an accident, he was horrified.”
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More than time, Panek was ready to connect with the puppy to the stage that she could take away his muzzle and they would have a friendlier interaction. “It just normally takes some patience to gain the dog’s believe in.”
In 2019, Panek moved to Scituate to pursue a pet-grooming opportunity. However, during her two yrs absent, she begun to overlook the camaraderie in the SouthCoast.
“It was kind of like, ‘Well, here is my dog. Make it glance sweet.’ Drop it off and go,” Panek admitted. “And then the people below are additional like, ‘Oh my god. So excellent to see you. How are you? My puppy is so thrilled.’
“I missed the people today in this location.”
In September, Panek returned to the Fairhaven location and opened her grooming company near the Mattapoisett line at 416 Huttleston Ave. She claimed she commenced scheduling clients immediately.
“When I arrived again to the space, I received a lot of my old clients back again.” she claimed, including that some of the dogs remembered her quickly.
Improved need for groomers
Panek believes that there are much more dogs than groomers available in the Marion, Mattapoisett, and Rochester tri-city area. “A lot of people today also bought puppies for the duration of COVID-19, due to the fact they had been house. It is really like a actually major detail,” she claimed.
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In the two months of being open, Panek says she’s now groomed 100 pet dogs and is scheduling appointments two weeks in advance.
Panek prefers operating solo so the puppies are not overcome. “I labored in other grooming stores that have been really active and frantic,” she stated. “And I locate that the canine you should not love it, it is almost way too stress filled for them.”
However, Panek is under no circumstances on your own.
At 12 Paws Pet Salon, she is usually accompanied by her 3 pet dogs (the “12 paws” referenced in the salon’s name). Kody, 10, and Kane, 4, are black Labs and Kash, 6, is a chocolate lab.
“They lay on my feet as I’m grooming,” she stated. “So I have to stand in excess of them and they’re often protected in hair.”
Panek says she loves making pet dogs sense improved. Apart from cutting hair, she needs to make her doggy clients as pleased as probable. She even specializes in palm massages.
“When they come in, they get worked up…and then when they go dwelling, they’re all relaxed and joyful. And they come to feel so much much better,” she reported.
“I’m happier when the canine are happier.”
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