It's Official!

On Tuesday, Nov 13th the city of tustin passed unanimously to approve the Wags & Wiggles, Part Deux project in their city. They stated that they were extremely impressed on how we presented our project and alleviated any concerns about a dog business entering their city. We have been through this process before in the City of RSM since in our history we have moved once and expanded 3 times. It definitely gets easier after you have done it a few times but it was a GREAT feeling to have surpassed this hurdle in the project. This means we can now start construction and feel like we are progressing. It has taken 2 years to find the perfect location. Then it took over 5 months of negotiating with the building owner and going through the proper channels at the city to get approval. We have a great construction guy lined up ready to get started.

We are sure that things will get hectic now as we tear down walls, build new walls, install new flooring, install over 10 air conditioning units (just imagine that cost on that alone...sheeesh!), paint, build play equipment, build kennels, install web cams & computers, and start the hiring process. We plan to start interviews the first week of December. We will be running a few ads to hire staff but if you are interested, now is the time to submit applications.

We already have close to 500 people on our grand opening list. Check out the website for how to get on that list. We have people waiting to come from Irvine, Costa Mesa, Newport, Fullerton, Anaheim Hills, Corona, & More. We have gotten so much positive feedback about how they have been waiting for Wags & Wiggles to come closer to their homes and workplaces. The hours at the NEW Location only will be extended to 6:30pm. We have not yet set a price schedule but we will have that up shortly. Many people have been asking about classes at that location and we expect to have those available by March 2008. I will be moving some of my advanced agility classes down to that location since the space is twice as large. However most of the current instructions, staff, and classes will remain at the RSM Location. We remain just as committed to our current RSM patrons. The RSM location is the original and will always remain our "baby".

Dave, my hubby, is so giddy right now he's like a kid. He's can't wait to get his hands on tools and build, build, build. My dad is giving notice at his job this week in preparation for coming on board in December. Lysa is tying up loose ends to make sure Julia, Ranaye, & Jenny are prepared to run the training center and help me like she currently does. They are ready for the challenge and they are more than qualified than take over. Lisa McFarland is joining the training team so that will be a little confusing for you all for awhile.....Lisa is replacing Lysa. Wow! We couldn't have made that more confusing....eh! Lysa is going to catch up on her sleep because as co-owner she will be at the new facility 7 days a week for quite some time ensuring everything goes smoothly.

And me? Well I'll be in the bahamas.....not just kidding. I'll be frantically racing back and forth attending to the needs of everyone, clients and staff. I often can't sit still or get a full nights sleep cuz I always gotta be doing something and this should certainly keep me busy for quite some time. We look forward to posting many day by day details over the next few weeks so this blog will be busy. Check back soon.