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Enterprise 36 The Dogs Group

Dogs can be many things to the people of the region. Some are pests and problems, others are family members, helpers, protectors, and working dogs. The Dogs Group is devoted to the superior care and training of dogs, their health, and their responsible roles within the society. It promotes responsible day-care for dogs, active uses for dogs in security, patrolling, visiting hospitals and other health-care places, reducing wild dogs and their effects, and adopting responsible ordinances related to dogs.

The Group provides membership in a local or regional organization, an e-mail news and notes, occasional meetings, veterinary clinics, sponsors superior feeding-for-health programs, and conducts fairs and demonstrations.

It is particularly interested in the psychology of dogs and trainers and in achieving rapid training of dogs for responsible roles in society. Eventually hiring staff and recruiting trainers who are talented, the Group offers on-site boarding and training programs.

With select areas, it operates exercise programs for dogs, and operates weekend "play areas" and special walking pathways for dogs and people who care for them.

A special health care monitoring program is conducted and health scores assigned based on a computer analysis of data on each animal. Close work with the College of Veterinary Science at Tech and its students is anticipated. The group seeks research grants related to dogs, especially as related to products and activities from other Pivotal-Rig, Inc. activities (e.g., Safety and Security, Novosports, The Raccoon Group).

It works with vertebrate pest control people to appraise the use of dogs in protecting livestock from coyotes. It shares interests with The Coyote, a group interested in the wild canids. It also shares interests in the hunting dogs related to quail, deer, bears, and raccoons. It uses dogs in surveys of wildlife transects and conducts demonstrations of well trained dogs, especially those used in hunting and in wildlife resource management (outlined by Fred Zwickel in Techniques of Wildlife Management, 1971, pages 319-324).

Funds are made from memberships, equipment sales, percentage of trainers' fees, housing, boarding of dogs of various participants in other Pivotal activities, sale of superior feeds, commissions from book sales, and from people attending an annual conference (with exhibits, demonstrations, crafts, etc.). It may expand to work with hunting dogs (bear, raccoon, fox, etc.). This is a region-wide business and works actively to gain members and participants world-wide. Much part-time employment and expert work is expected.

Income	Low	Moderate	High
Memberships 300@$35	10,500	20,000	30,000
Trainee Customers @ $200	4,000	8,000	10,000
Feed and Equipment Sales	5,000	8,000	10,000
Annual Conference	5,000	6,000	10,000
Publications	500	2,000	5,000
Play-area Admissions	500	1,000	2,000
Health Monitoring Program	2,000	3,000	8,000
Totals	27,000	48,000	75,000

Potential subscriber commissions with The Bark quarterly

Estimates Initial costs with two-person staff with part-time employees, kennels, fences, equipment, computer programs - $50,000. Gains are shown above.

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