Dog Grooming With Eric Diaz

Jersey City man goes from Merrill Lynch to grooming pets. From Wall Street to the highways and byways of Hudson County. That's the route Jersey City resident Eric Diaz has taken.

After a 25-year career in financial services, Eric now operates a mobile pet grooming van, the local franchise of the California-based company Aussie Pet Mobile. "It is quite a change from managing 40 people to running my own doggy show," Diaz quipped this week.

Diaz, 45, who grew up in the South Bronx and wears a gold Yankees necklace, grooms dogs of all sizes as well as cats. In April last year Diaz accepted an early retirement package from Merrill Lynch, where he had worked for more than 20 years. Diaz has about 224 customers, which totals roughly 300 pets. About 15 percent are cats, the rest are dogs, he said.

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Pets & Animals

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• Dog Grooming
• Dogs
• Cat Grooming
• Cats