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What does an award-winning Australian chef do when he has reached the pinnacle of his career but is still unfulfilled and wants a change? If you are Andrew Brooke, President and CEO of Bark Busters of Englewood, Colorado, you become the franchisee of a one-of-a-kind pet franchise company called Bark Busters. If it seems a stretch to go from cooking gourmet meals to training Fido, Brooke attributes the transition to fate and very good luck.

Bark Busters is a franchise company offering in-home dog training to help with the multitude of behavior problems people have with their pets. The company started when Sylvia and Danny Wilson, animal lovers and dog trainers, managed an Australian version of a dog pound and saw a growing number of “problem” pets being euthanized because their owners couldn’t control their behaviors. The Wilsons developed their own system of dog training based on a dog’s natural pack instinct and had great success rehabilitating unruly, unwanted dogs.

They quickly became celebrity experts on dog training – to the point where they had difficulty keeping up with all of the demands on their time and talent. While the Wilsons couldn’t clone themselves, in the late 1980s they realized that they could clone the business model which would keep the system pure. The model fit a franchise system perfectly.

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