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M: 516.35 .5660 mentioned his other gig: walking dogs in his spare time. It sounded lucrative, and Reitman was game. “I made some neon pink flyers. And I hung them up at the local train stations. ‘Hey local vet tech looking to do some dog walking if you’re interested, shoot me a text.’ And I got my first client in 2009. And I started doing it here and there and I realized okay, this is kind of fun.”

What started as a side hustle soon grew into a full-fledged business opportunity. “And over time, it started to encroach (on his regular job). First, I would do it on my lunch break and I would go and do it on the weekends. And then I started cutting my hours back at the hospital. I realized, okay, maybe there’s an opportunity here. I decided, I think I’m gonna go back to school, but I’m going to center it around what I want to do.”

This stint at college was focused on business classes, tapping into that business instinct he had as a child. “I grew from just myself to about 80 employees now, with a client base of about 4000. We do Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island. And I absolutely love it. I don’t get to be with the dogs as much, (but if) it’s crazy and I have to go out in the field and cover stuff, and I know I have someone in the office. I’m like the happiest person in the world.”

Dan’s Pet Care is now an established business. No longer run from his parents’ Port Washington basement, they are now headquartered in their own building on Locust Avenue in Manhasset. They are also looking to expand into a 24-hour care facility. The company has its own YouTube channel and runs a regular podcast.

The relationships that Reitman has been able to cultivate mean that he has long term clients who have grown from puppies all the way to senior citizens. “Because we’ve been in business for 13 years, I have some dogs that I’ve taken care of since they were babies, and now they’re getting older now. And it’s great getting to meet new dogs.”

Reitman hopes to expand his business nationally, with a standardized training program that ensures the same level of care for all the animals entrusted to the Dan’s Pet Care brand. “My goal is to surround Manhattan. Eventually we’ll go into Manhattan as well, but Brooklyn, Queens, up in Westchester, we want to do Jersey City. We’ll do that and then kind of move our way up and down the coast, Boston, Philly, D.C., and then we’ll probably do a large investment raise and then scale the business nationally. I want to have a facility, at least one, in every state.”