WagWay Group

03/12/2025

🐶 Pup-date: We’ve fetched a celebrity host for The Pet Summit 2025.

🎤It’s official! Chris Bonifati, CEM, co-host of the #1 petcast, Pets Add Life (PAL), has joined our panel as the expert interviewer.

💡Catch Chris’ signature wit and industry know-how in “From Startup to Scale-Up: Building a Pet Business with Grit and Growth” during the Entrepreneurship track on March 24 in Orlando.

⁉️ He’ll moderate this interactive Q&A with our WagWay CEO Scott Buttz and PUPS Pet Club CEO Daniel Rubenstein, diving into real-world lessons, growth strategies, and insider tales—before unleashing the mic to the audience for live questions!

🎟️ If you're serious about growing your pet brand, this is the educational event to sit (and stay!) for. Snag your Summit tickets at https://thepetsummit.com/register

03/06/2025

🎉 WIN A FREE TICKET TO THE ULTI-MUTT INDUSTRY EVENT! 🐶
Sound too good to be true? We’re not pulling your tail! 🦴

🆓 As speakers at The Pet Summit 2025, we've been gifted an all-access pass. We're giving it away to one lucky winner! That's an $850 value to experience the industry's thought leadership event of the year on March 24-26 in Orlando.

Here’s how to enter:
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🐕 Come for three days of educational programming and networking with pet industry pros, influencers, and advisors. Stay for the exclusive After Hours Paw-ty! 🥳

Why go for it?
🎫 Learn from the biggest names in the biz, including our own WagWay CEO Scott Buttz and PUPS Pet Club CEO Daniel Rubenstein as they share firsthand pet business growth secrets in an engaging Q&A speaker session!
🎫 Get inspired by industry experts like Dave Bolen, Kristen Levine, Chris Bonifati, Colleen Wilson, Patrick O'Brien, and many more in keynotes and five educational tracks.
🎫 Rub noses with pet people and a pack of celebrity dogfluencers such as W***y Good Dog, Bacon, Amber Aquart's Whiskey Toller, The Chrissy Joy Crew dogs, plus irresistible adoptable puppies!

📣 We’ll select the winner by March 11. Enter here ASAP!

02/13/2025

🐕 Here's to puppy love on Valentine's Day! The four-legged kind...💕

🐶 Our Pawville and PUPS Pet Club doggie daycare customers got into the Valentine vibe during picture paw-fect photo shoots.

💘 See our collection of sweethearts. Then share and tag your own in the comments!

02/12/2025

This just in: See us LIVE at The Pet Summit 2025! A big wag to our own Dan Rubenstein and Scott Buttz who earned a place on the Entrepreneurship Track of the industry's thought leadership event of year.

Catch their interactive Q&A session “From Startup to Scale-Up: Building a Pet Business with Grit and Growth” on May 24 in Orlando. Expect real-world lessons and practical tips for growing your pet business from this dynamic duo - Dan, CEO of PUPS Pet Club, and Scott, CEO of WagWay Group .

What an honor to be among this track's choice pack of pet industry, business growth and finance experts like Andrea Huspeni, Colleen Wilson, Brett Rodriguez, David Murphy, Jessica Shipman, Vikki Rose, Chloe DiVita, Jessica Berger, Erin Murphy, Erin O'Leary, Benita S. Samuels, Ashby Green, Kara Conway Love, Larry Mietus, Ana Sofía Raffucci, Fernando T. Maluf, Jolanta Smulski, and Geralynn Cada.

Join us! Get early bird tickets at https://thepetsummit.com/

02/08/2025

🐶🏈 This Weekend's Puppy Bowl: The Cutest Game on Turf! 🏈🐶

Before the big game, catch the most paw-some showdown of the year—Puppy Bowl XXI! Rescue pups from Team Ruff and Team Fluff are ready to rumble on
📅 Sunday, Feb. 9
⏰ 2 p.m. EST / 11 a.m. PST
📺 Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, TBS, truTV, Max or discovery+

Why watch the 21st Puppy Bowl?
🐾Biggest lineup ever: 142 adoptable dogs from 80 shelters across 40 states and 2 countries
🐾 Perfect timing: You can see every play before Super Bowl LIX kicks off
🐾 Special MVPs: 11 special needs pups will be in the game

🏆Tune in to see who will fetch the coveted "Lombarky" trophy!

02/04/2025

🐾 🎉 Give a woof-worthy welcome to Jacob Jones who's joined WagWay as Chief Financial Officer!

📈 His track record of driving financial success includes leading Sylvan Learning through impressive franchise growth and two major business exits. Now he's ready to help WagWay scale to new heights.

🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒🐕Jacob and his wife are parents to two human children and one canine, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. That brings the "Wag Dog" family Spaniel number to three if our finance team is counting.

👋Please help welcome Jacob to our pack!

01/30/2025

Woo-hoo! Our Northchase Pawville pet resort in Wilmington, NC, just got a major pup-date.

A recent Grand Opening Celebration delighted pet parents with fun games, raffles, dog+human treats and special offers. Plus personal tours of this fully renovated, amenity-packed dog paradise, all 7,912 square feet of it. Celebrating this stunning two-year transformation since Pawville acquired the facility.

“We took it from old-school style chain link kennels to Pawville's signature townhomes with private yards and even a custom swimming pool,” said Pawville CEO Phil Miller.

Better and bigger: Three new daycare rooms with attached outdoor yards were added for indoor-outdoor fun along with an increased capacity from 60 to 80 luxury boarding suites.

See the paw-ty at the new place below!

01/22/2025

Just a few weeks until our PUPS Pet Club opens its next big services center in Chicago’s vibrant, pup-filled Lakeshore East community. The excitement is growing as pet parents and local businesses notice the slick new site and all it will offer for dogs’ whole health and wellness.

Take it from real estate guru David Goldberg, founder of Goldstreet Partners. Join him for this on-the-ground tour. Thanks David!

For the latest scoop, a deal for neighborhood pet parents and a pack of fun, upcoming opening events, visit https://bit.ly/PUPS-Lakeshore_East-Club

01/20/2025

🎉 Today, we honor the powerful legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who stood for justice, equality, and compassion for all living beings.

⚖️ As he once said, “Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake.”

🤝 Dr. King's principles remind us to lead with kindness and to advocate for the well-being of every life, two- and four-legged alike. WagWay is committed to fostering a better, inclusive world for all people and pets—values that resonate with Dr. King’s dream.

01/16/2025

🏄‍♂️ Did you catch the wave of 2024’s pet trends? It's not too late!🐾

🐕‍🦺 Check out this list of 100 hot products, from cutting-edge wearables to nutrient-packed pet foods. Think Woof's award-winning Pupsicle, PetPace's AI-powered collars, Dogster's probiotic-enriched ice cream and much more. Shop the full list below.

👉 Then tell us, what new interests you for your fur baby for 2025?

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01/07/2025

🥇 Hot dog! What a banner year 2024 was for Access Holdings, scoring two prestigious industry honors:

🏆 Top Innovator of the Year from Blu Wave's private equity awards: BluWave founder and CEO Sean Mooney applauded Access' groundbreaking leadership: “Access Holdings has differentially demonstrated how to build and grow businesses. We congratulate them on their innovation and success in creating value.”

🏆 Top 269 Founder-Friendly Investors by Inc. Magazine: Recognized for fueling business founders' bold ambitions, Access made this national list of preferred partners for offering “a helping hand, not just deep pockets... Simply stated, these are the backers that will have your back when you need more than just capital."

✨With this double dose of recognition, we're excited for what 2025 holds for Access - and WagWay among its lucky pack of companies!

12/31/2024

🎉HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM WAGWAY!🎉

🐕 Join us for a walk through our top moments of 2024: Building our foundation and momentum, especially the addition of PUPS Pet Club and Pawville to our pack.

🌟Then please share highlights from your year! Eager to hear.

🥂 Here’s to even more moments that make the difference in 2025!

12/25/2024

🐶 🐩 Our customers sure are fetching! Thanks to festive photoshoots at our PUPS Pet Clubs and Pawville resorts, catch the picturesque pups in our 2024 holiday album. Take a scroll through!🤳📖

✨ Wishing the happiest of holidays to our pets and peeps! Enjoy!🎁

12/19/2024

🚶‍♂️‍➡️Walking our talk this season! ❄️

🐾Literally! Our WagWay team's holiday event treated rescue dogs to healthy outdoor exercise at the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter.

🌲Before hitting the trails, the amazing BARCS volunteers taught us the ropes (and leashes). We got trained on procedures for safe excursions suited to each pup’s temperament, health and age.

🐕 The pooches reveled in the freedom and festivity. See them with our dog-lovin' folks giving back in a worthy way.

💖Inspired? Support BARCS’ lifesaving work at https://lnkd.in/g9VXVSzj

12/17/2024

🛞 Spin to Win on DOGTV’s Howli-day Prize Wheel!

🎁Only a lucky 11 pet offers made it onto this festive digital gift game. Including WagWay's own PUPS Pet Club and Pawville!

❄️Everyone’s a winner! Give it a whirl at https://www.dogtv.com/holidaywheel2024

🐩You could score pampered pup daycare, boarding, training, or vet service specials from our PUPS, Pawville, and Paw Springs Veterinary Hospital. Plus other pet-tastic prizes such as a guest appearance for your dog on DOGTV or trending books from celebrity canine chef Kevyn Matthews and pet parenting expert Kristen Levine.

🐾 See the close ups of our WagWay family prizes. Cheers!

12/12/2024

Still searching for that something special for your precious pet? The American Pet Products Association (APPA) to the rescue! It's just released its Pets Add Life (PAL) 2025 gift guide packed with trendy ideas for toys, treats, gear, beds, enrichment, health, tech and supplies. Browse this holiday helper for pet parents at https://bit.ly/PALGiftGuide

12/10/2024

💡What’s the top secret to pet business success? Take it from our Pawville CEO and Founder Phil Miller: Culture and people who care outweigh even the best strategies.

🐶✨At the recent industry Pet Boarding and Daycare Expo, his inspiring “Who Are Your Pack Leaders?” presentation emphasized the importance of cultivating a strong people-centric culture and leaders who boost their teams’ performance and morale.

🏆 It’s worked for Phil: Since 2007, Pawville has grown from a single location to 10 premier pet services resorts across four states, plus two PawSprings veterinary hospitals. Earning it a spot three times on the prestigious Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies list.

🎥 Catch Phil’s dynamic top tip featured in this clip. What do you think - culture vs. strategy?

12/05/2024

🐶 It’s a fact: Dogs enrich human health and happiness! 🐾

📖 So much that GQ magazine's latest Wellness section featured the science of how dog companionship boosts people's physical and mental well-being. From reducing stress and loneliness to lowering the risk of heart disease, pups bring proven benefits to their parents.

🐕Get the details at https://www.gq.com/story/why-having-a-dog-is-so-good-for-your-mental-health