Paws & Claws Gym
Tired of jogging or rollerblading with your dog through traffic? Tired of dog parks where you can't participate in exercise with your pet? Paws & Claws offer a safe place to work out with your pooch. Where you and your pet can exercise together.
Q1: What other advice do you have to help make this business a reality?
Idea Description
Unlike dog parks where you cannot participate in activities with your pet, Paws & Claws offers a gym facility where you and your pet can work out together. Paws & Claws offers swimming pools for dogs of all sizes where the owner can participate in swimming with their pooch. We also offer a safe place to jog and rollerblade with your pet. No more worrying about traffic, speed bumps or potholes. Treadmills that can accomodate you and your dog as well as walking paths. Also, an agility course for those wishing to train their dogs. To wrap up the day, there is also a self service doggie grooming facility. The facility offers indoor and outdoor activities so exercise can continue year round.
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
If I were to win $10,000, this would help me be able to partially fund the purchase of land and building of the facility. This money would give me the opportunity to be able to find others to help fund the start up of this facility.
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First of all, I would like to say that I think this would be a great idea in communities where there are a lot of people who enjoy exercising with their pets. Especially up in the northern U.S. where winters can be extremely unforgiving, forcing pet owners to wait until spring time to go out with their pets.
After searching around other indoor dog parks, your idea seems the most unique and functional. The parks that I saw just looked like an empty warehouse with a few obstacles. I guess that is the difference between a dog park and a dog gym.
As far as your plans to acquire land and a facility goes, you might want to rethink it a little bit. One of the basic principals of starting a new business is making it affordable to do. A lot of entrepreneurs get so excited about started their new business and get fixated on purchasing land and a building. Those two assets are usually the most expensive parts of a business. So instead of purchasing the land and facility, think about leasing. This allows you to pay the bills as you are making money, instead of get…moreting in over your head in debt. Don't get me wrong, there will definitely need to be some capital to start up this business, but try not to spend it all on purchasing huge assets as I just described, lease them. That way, a year or two from when you open and things don't go well, you and just stop paying the leases, instead of trying to sell off everything you purchased for your business and lose even more money.
Once you become more self-sufficient you can go about purchasing certain assets, but for now, just lease them.