Houston's "DOG WHISPERER" Launches Franchise For Aspiring Pet Dog Trainers

Posted on January 12, 2007 by Ginger Watford

Houston, - While enjoying his status as Houston’s most esteemed dog trainer, Jim Burwell decided to formalize his business concept, leverage his experience, and his reputation through the creation of a franchising business, to be called Jim Burwell’s Petiquette™. He announced his new business last month.“Our goal,” says Burwell, “is to share the ‘Burwell Method™’ of dog training and show like-minded men and women that ‘Opportunity Barks!’”

In fact, he may be right. Entrepreneur magazine reports that dog obedience training is a multimillion-dollar industry growing by double digits, as more and more dog owners realize the benefits of professional training.

“The most prominent franchisor of dog training is probably the foreign company known as Bark Busters,” says Burwell. “From beginning their franchise program in Australia , they’ve grown to about three hundred businesses, with about two-thirds of them in the United States . That growth has occurred in only fourteen years. So demand is definitely there,” he adds.

“In terms of rocket-like growth, Bark Busters is not Subway, Pizza Hut or Curves. But pet dog training is an awesome and profitable business to be in,” Burwell observes. “No one knows better than my wife and me.” 

Now the 57-year-old trainer of KPRC-TV’s “Radar” as well as dogs for stage and Houston ’s social set, is in the dog training business in a bigger way than ever.

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