The owner of a groundbreaking Bristol pet shop dedicated to improving dog behaviour has said she has been overwhelmed by the response when she announced it was to close after ten years. So instead of simply closing the doors of the Mutty Professor in April as planned, Roz Pooley said she will offer it up for sale, as she would ‘hate the idea of it being gone forever’.
In an emotional post on the Mutty Professor’s Facebook page, Roz announced she was closing the store in Bedminster, which has served owners and their dogs from across Bristol and beyond since 2012. But after her post outlining the reasons why, so many customers pleaded with her to rethink, that she added to the post with an update stating that she would welcome someone else coming in to take on the store.
Roz, who is a nationally-recognised expert in dog training and behaviour, runs the shop alongside her role running courses for owners. She opened the Mutty Professor, in West Street, as an extension of the Mutty Professor training school, and to help her mission to get more dogs wearing harnesses rather than leads and collars, as well as a mission to get dogs to eat more healthily.
