 My name is Mindy Dobrow and I am the owner of Brookline Dog Grooming and I've been in business since 1974 so that makes it 40 years in business. I love animals and I've grown my store to have grooming, daycare and do-it-yourself doggy wash and selling lots of supplies and I love catering to nutrition and working with customers on that level. There's been an ongoing argument that if the shop didn't get ordered, I say a month, these shelves would be empty so we're constantly getting a new product, fresh product. Nothing ever stays on our shelves more than probably five or six weeks. My name is Nicole. I am the store manager here at Brookline Dog Grooming and Pet Supply. I think that this particular community is really great because while we do have a lot of customers that have been here for many many years, we also have a great clientele that moves in and out because there's so many colleges in the area so we have tons and tons of new people coming in with, you know, they're new pets, they're new to college, they go to BC and we definitely can service them but we also have the old school customers who have been here since we started 39 and a half years ago. The first thing I felt when I came in here was very comfortable, very welcomed and it's a great size store, great space store. We offer so much that you feel like you're not just coming in and it's like a mishmash of a couple things that a small pet store put together. I really feel like what we sell here is there's a lot of thought put into it and Mindy really believes in it and she won't sell anything she doesn't believe in so you really get that when you walk into the store. It's a great industry and it's growing and which is good. On the other hand everybody feels that they can do it and they find out that it's not that simple. When people come in here they're usually asking questions and want to learn from us so I've tried to educate my employees to follow suit with my knowledge. The dog and cat grooming, mostly dog grooming and pet stores in this local area have really blossomed in the past couple years so there's a lot of different places that say they can do what Mindy does but not everyone can say they've been here for 40 years so to still be recognized after that amount of time is really impressive. I think our consumers, our customers, our clients really have a connection to us because they see the same faces every day. We have you know we have the same employees for years and years and people feel comfortable with that. They feel like they really get to know the employees and those employees really get to know their needs and their pets needs and I think that's really our number one difference between you know just a factory.