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Your pets just found their new favorite hangout. From dog walking and daycare to boarding, pet sitting and training, Your Spoiled Pets is fast becoming the place every furry friend wants to be.
Owned by Scott and Greer Shatzer, the pet care company services Greenpoint, East Williamsburg and the Brooklyn Navy Yard area, and offers doggy daycare services, dog walking, dog boarding and cat sitting at 124 Meserole Ave.
The Shatzers started dog-walking in 2008, when it wasn’t a very popular gig, Scott Shatzer said. They built the business from the ground up, one dog at a time, gaining popularity from neighbors and through word of mouth.
While the couple was dog walking as a side gig, the Shatzers simultaneously owned Sunday Love, a vintage clothing store in East Williamsburg. After facing hardships with the store, they decided to close it in 2012 and renovate the space to reinvent as a doggy daycare.
The Shatzers always considered themselves “pet people,” and often joked about owning a dog walking company, Scott said. He grew up around several dogs, and his partner, Greer, often tells various stories about “Chuck the Duck,” a duck who lived in her bathtub as a young child, and about her grandmother’s pet raccoons.
Now, almost 20 years in, Scott Shatzer says building a pet care business is not a small feat—it takes an incredible amount of care, concern and energy.
“We've literally grown this company one dog at a time,” said Shatzer. “Our website and social media didn't necessarily exist back then. But mostly people were talking about us at the dog park. And as we sustain one of the best reputations in Northern Brooklyn, that's one of the best ways that we've grown our business.”
The same ability to provide exceptional care for pets in their facility helped them rebuild their business after the COVID pandemic.
The pet care industry has grown tremendously since the Shatzers first got into it. What sets their business apart is the extra personal care, according to Scott Schatzer. The daycare offers boarding for dogs and someone stays overnight at the facility to care for them. Shatzer said this helps ease anxiety for dogs with previous bad experiences.
“So when I'm at the helm of this company, I am trying to deliver a service that I want delivered to me if I was a client,” Shatzer told BK Reader. “I'm geared towards servicing the dog, and like the dogs can't verbally tell you, but they will tell you, right? And so our clients, one of the things that they really love is that they can tell through their dog that they love coming here, and that we're a good place.”
