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AUSSIE FAMILY CAPTURES NATIONAL ATTENTION ON ANIMAL PLANET WITH FUREVER HOME FAMILY BY SAVING DOGS FROM EUTHANASIA

July 23, 2020 by [email protected]

The Amos family has dedicated their lives to travel across the world to make a difference for animal adoption and saving dogs from euthanasia.

One by one, Americans are falling in love with the Amos family and HydroDog’s mobile grooming business after the family and their “Bathe To Save Tour” was picked up by Animal Planet for a six-part documentary series. HydroDog is best known for its exceptional dog grooming services offered inside their famous “Big Blue Dog,” a fully-functional, fiberglass, dog grooming salon on wheels. The inspiring new series, Furever Home Family is currently airing on Animal Planet. The show highlights the lively Australian family as they make their way across the US on their “Bathe to Save Tour.” The show is jam-packed with fun, energy and is also full of emotion as every stop has a new shelter story to highlight and new homes to be found.

What ties this family into HydroDog is that the entire concept was founded by Anthony Amos, an Australian entrepreneur at the young age of 21. He envisioned and built the trailer system compete with a giant dog bath in the form of a massive, over-sized blue dog to travel around city streets and in 7 short years, Amos became one of the youngest millionaires in Australia after revolutionizing the mobile grooming industry.

The next step for the business was to launch HydroDog in the United States and replicate our success from Australia,” says Amos. “Upon detailed research we learned that roughly 5,000 dogs a day are euthanized in the United States, ” says Amos. “That is when our passion for growing the HydroDog took a serious shift towards ’Bathe to Save‘ as we had a brand-new mission.”

The initiative titled ‘Bathe to Save’ was a brainchild of the family which was powered by their children and fueled by the parents. The Amos family purchased an RV and began to plan their US tour with the goal of raising the profile for local shelters and holding bathing and adoption events to lead to finding every rescue pup a Furever Home Family.

The Amos family teamed up with a video production company, The Workshop, to enter a co-production partnership with the family. The Workshop joined the tour to film the massive effort by following the Amos family and Bubbles, the Big Blue Dog as they visited shelters and rescues across the U.S. by hosting events & fundraisers, bathing thousands of dogs, and promoting animal adoption.

While on tour, the HydroDog franchise grew organically across the US as the Big Blue Dog was spotted state-to-state, bathing and saving thousands of dogs.

“The turning point for our family was when we got the call that our documentary series was picked up by Animal Planet,” Amos said. “We knew we were doing something special, but this was an opportunity for us to reach an entire new audience.”

Enter 2020 and with the pandemic upon us, there is no better time than now to adopt a dog, or own your own business. Franchise sales are going through the roof. The ”Bathe to Save” initiative is now airing nationwide on Animal Planet and the franchise is gaining traction with dog lovers of all kinds as they partner with adoption facilities and work hand-in-hand with the “Adopt, Don’t Shop” mission.

You can find Big Blue Dogs roaming the streets throughout Kansas, Missouri, Massachusetts, Maryland, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas, and Virginia as more and more dogs join the pack. In addition to an incredible franchising opportunity for groomers, the charity component of the company with Bathe to Save brings a national light to traditional grooming services. HydroDog franchisees are able to use the model in their own communities to drive awareness to various rescue groups and organizations and ultimately save many dogs lives.

For information about HydroDog and its mission to support local shelters and rescues while also raising awareness about animal adoption, visit hydrodog.com.

About HydroDog

HydroDog was founded when Anthony Amos an Australian rugby player decided to use his down time to start his own business. At 21 he and he founded the mobile dog grooming business. He quickly turned to franchising to meet the high demand the business experienced. Within five years of offering the business as a franchise Hydrodog had grown to over 100 franchises across Australia where he implemented the master franchise program where he sold all states & territories within 18 months, in turn sky rocketing franchise sales to 200 franchises across the country. Now the brand is expanding the revolutionary dog grooming franchise in the United States with its fiberglass mobile grooming salon in the shape of a big blue dog. For more information go to www.Hydrodog.com.

Morgan Vanderwall
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Call or Text 574-370-8163

HydroDog Franchise Discovery Day – 6pm Friday, June 15th – Hannibal, Missouri

June 8, 2018 by Anthony Amos

HydroDog will be having a Franchise Discovery Day at 6pm on Friday, June 15th in Hannibal, Missouri. The event will be in the conference room of the Best Western On the River at 401 N 3rd St, Hannibal, MO 63401-3301.

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The Discovery Day occurs one day before HydroDog Founder Anthony Amos and Family’s Bathe To Save Tour returns to downtown Hannibal at Dog’s Day Downtown, a “Dog Carnival” benefit event that involves many area businesses and benefits the local Northeast Missouri Humane Society (NEMO).

For more information:
Drew Brashier – VP of Franchise Development
[email protected]
888-244-1030

Anthony Amos – Founder & Chairman
[email protected]
888-397-6208

HydroDog Mobile Dog Grooming is holding a Franchise Discovery Day Event that is Open to the Public at Best Western Conference Room in Hannibal, MO on Friday, June 15th at 6pm.

Hannibal, Missouri, June 7, 2018 – HydroDog, the mobile dog grooming service that is the engine behind the Bathe To Save national tour to raise money and awareness for shelter dogs and rescue adoption throughout the country, is having a Franchise Discovery Day event at 6pm in the Best Western Conference Room in Hannibal, Missouri to meet with Area Representatives, new Franchisees, and members of the public interested in franchise opportunities throughout the country. HydroDog is establishing mobile dog grooming salon operations that will continue the legacy of the BatheToSave.com Tour in local communities nationwide on a recurring and permanent basis throughout the year.

“This is an event for entrepreneurs seeking a growing franchise that combines philanthropy and social conscience elements with financial growth opportunity of a proven business model,” said Anthony Amos, who will be in Hannibal and Quincy for some days prior to the June 15th event and for the duration of the Bathe To Save dog washing event that will show HydroDog in action at Dog’s Day Downtown on the following day
Following last year’s successful August 2017 Bathe To Save event in partnership with 2 Besties Biscuits and the Northeast Missouri Humane Society (NEMO), HydroDog is excited to return for both the Franchise Discovery Day on June 15th and the Bathe To Save dog-washing benefit in coordination with 2 Besties Biscuits’ Dog’s Day Downtown event the following Saturday, on June 16th. HydroDog looks forward to continuing this partnership.

Best Western On the River is located at 401 N 3rd St, Hannibal, MO 63401. The event is at 6pm on Friday, and is open to the public.

To inquire regarding the Franchise Discovery Day event and HydroDog franchise opportunities nationwide, call VP of Franchise Development, Drew Brashier at 888-244-1030 or Founder & Chairman Anthony Amos at 888-397-6208. https://www.hydrodog.com/franchise/aboutus/

Announcing Furever Home: 6-Episode Show Following HydroDog Founder Anthony Amos & Family On the Bathe To Save Tour

May 23, 2018 by Anthony Amos

Dog Lovers,
We have a HUGE announcement!: HydroDog Founder Anthony Amos & his family are shooting 6 30-minute episodes with The WorkShop for an upcoming television show, Furever Home, following the Bathe To Save Tour and visits to cities and animal shelters around The United States.
Download the Press Release for Furever Home

From the Press Release:

THE WORKSHOP PARTNERS WITH HYDRODOG TO CO-PRODUCE ‘FUREVER HOME’
CANINE COMPASSION-FUELED SERIES AIMS TO PROMOTE ANIMAL ADOPTION IN U.S.
Ex-Rugby Pro and Serial Entrepreneur Anthony Amos and Family to Trek across America with Bubbles the Big Blue Dog Mobile Grooming Center to Support Rescue Dogs & Animal Shelters

RADNOR, PA – MAY 23, 2018 ─ Well The WorkShop has gone to the dogs! Or at least a big blue one known as Bubbles has come to them!!
In either case the result is that the independent production company has entered into a new co-production partnership with Anthony Amos, the serial entrepreneur and founder of HydroDog. Now in pre-production Furever Home (6×30) is a heart-warming new series that follows the Amos family as they trek across America on their Bathe to Save Tour.

Throughout the series according to The WorkShop CEO and Executive Producer Tom Farrell, Anthony and his family will visit cities and small towns with their mobile grooming center – Bubbles the Big Blue Dog. They’ll be followed every step of the way by a film crew from The WorkShop.
The Amos family’s goal and that of Furever Home is to clean up 25,000 dogs and some cats too, at animal shelters around the nation to make them clean, happy and ready for adoption. Viewers will have the opportunity to follow the Amos’ family road-trip as Anthony and Rachel and their three children Isabella, Austin and Aria hold philanthropic public dog-washing events throughout the country. These events will support local animal rescue shelters and organizations across the USA, clean up pets of the homeless, and along the way, bring smiles to all.

Remarked Farrell, “Anthony is a force of nature who brings tremendous energy and passion to everything he does. From the moment I first was introduced to him and then met his family, my producer’s radar said Furever Home was a programming concept that would be a perfect project for The WorkShop to undertake. We’re talking family, empathy, travel, and animals – what a great mix of subjects to attract a broad cross-section of viewers and their families.”

Noted Amos, “When we arrived in America and people heard about our planned trip across the country and they saw Bubbles, they were hooked. Almost immediately they said ‘you need your own TV show’. Fortunately, a mutual friend introduced Tom and me. What a combination – my family’s bottomless love for dogs and Tom’s passion for producing programming that tells engaging and very personal stories.”

Only 21 at the time, Anthony decided to launch the HydroDog business in between seasons when he was a professional rugby player back in his home nation of Australia. Armed with a mobile phone, a secondhand hydro-bath strapped on the back of a box trailer and a newspaper ad, his first business became a huge success in Australia. He soon started to franchise HydroDog and was on his way to becoming a serial entrepreneur.
Anthony eventually set his sights on launching the mobile dog-grooming service as a franchise opportunity in the U.S., and in little time began to also experience success in the states under the Bubbles the Big Blue Dog banner.

About The WorkShop:
Formed in 2007 The WorkShop has grown to become a vertically integrated company serving clients from the creative development stages of a project through final production. The company has had great success in structuring compelling stories and bringing them to life on the screen for platforms and networks ranging from Amazon, PBS and TLC, to name a few. In addition to working with the major television networks the company’s productions span virtually all of today’s established and emerging platforms – ranging from linear to digital – with the goal being to entertain, inform and inspire the largest audience possible.

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Press Contact:
Don Ciaramella
The Lippin Group
O: +1.212.986.7080
M: +1.203.246.7228
[email protected]

The Amos Family looks forward to seeing more of you on the Bathe To Save Tour, and you’ll see them on TV… More info on this exciting development is coming soon!

Taking extra precaution while grooming your dog

April 17, 2018 by Anthony Amos

With the recent news about dogs not being treated with the utmost care while getting groomed, everyone at HydroDog is trying to flip the script and show you the extra precaution we take to ensure your dog’s happiness and well-being. Keep reading to find out only 3 of the steps we take with every dog to return them happier than when they came.

We Ask Questions

Getting to know your dog is one of our biggest priorities. You know them best, so getting a headstart on their temperament is going to allow us to give them the care they need. Our groomers are knowledgeable on the different behaviors of dog breeds and are trained to pick up on anything to help make the dog’s experience more enjoyable. Every dog is different, they all have their personalities, we appreciate learning from their owner about any potential grooming specialty needs before starting.

Less Stimulus

Our groomers give your dog 100% of their attention. Getting groomed is a noisy process, we make sure to comfort your furry friends and always follow any specific requests you have for our grooming process. Our groomers went into this industry because they love dogs and want to help them look their best, while also joining in the cause of donating to local animal shelters through our Bathe to Save program.

High-Quality Tools

Using sharp blades and scissors that can quickly and efficiently groom your dog is vital. Using hair cutting tools around the eyes, mouth, and other sensitive areas take extra precaution, our groomers are highly trained and certified.

All of our HydroDog reps dedicate themselves to the well-being of all dogs while raising awareness on the benefits of adoption. If you have a concern about getting your dog groomed call your local HydroDog and we will treat your dog as if they were our own.

HydroDog introduces Jody Maple as Groomer of HydroDog West Springfield, Massachusetts

March 17, 2018 by Anthony Amos

HydroDog is proud to introduce its first franchisee in America: Jody Maple of West Springfield, Massachusetts.

The “Teska” HydroDog Franchise of West Springfield, Massachusetts has deep roots in the animal rescue community. The HydroDog West Springfield Dog Groomer Jody and his wife Lesley have many contacts in the community pertaining to their involvement with Dakin Humane Society, other area shelters and rescues, and related organizations. They are also the owners of a Great Pyrenees / German Shepherd mix named Stella.

Jody’s wife, Lesley, operates Stella’s Bones, a pet services business offering pet sitting and dog walking. Lesley has also been a volunteer at Dakin Humane Society since 2015, working with a range of dogs of different temperaments.

Jody is no stranger to the pet world himself, and as he completes his immersive 5-week training at the prestigious Academy, he is well-equipped to provide professional bathing and grooming services – as well as flea and tick treatments – all while working toward building a greater consciousness of the plight facing shelter dogs not only locally, but around the country.

Jody and Lesley will be conducting many public benefit events to support shelter dogs in the area, while also participating in the promotion of other community activities in dog rescue circles. Contact Jody to schedule a grooming appointment for your dog(s), and you can also discuss getting involved in local events in your area!

More HydroDog franchisees will be popping up soon throughout the United States – If you are interested in starting a HydroDog franchise, provide us with your information on the HydroDog Franchise Application.

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