Pet Bakery Owner Career Profile
- Career Name - Pet Bakery Owner
- Category - Business
- Skills Required - Life skills 40% - Career skills 60%
- Basic School Subjects - Home Ed, Business Studies, Biology
- Minimum Required Education - High School Certificate
- Species Worked With - Pets, Critters, Farm Animals, Wildlife
- Kind of Interaction with Animals - Direct
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UPDATED:
18 June 2023
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What is a Pet Bakery Owner?
A pet bakery owner operates a specialty bakery that makes and sells treats, cakes and other food that are nutritionally-appropriate for pets.
If you are looking for a career where you can make the pet treats from home (without having to start an expensive bakery/shop), then you might be interested in:
Category
The Pet Bakery Owner career can be found within the following OZT career categories:
- Business
History?
The first dog bakery, Famous Fido, opened in 1979 on Chicago, Illinois
Famous Ingredients?
Two of the most used ingredients in animal treats are pumpkin and peanut butter
What does a Pet Bakery Owner do?
Groups of animals a Pet Bakery Owner works with
What is the level of Interaction with the Animals?
- Directly - A person works directly with the animals with some form of physical contact at least once every few days
- Indirectly - The career doesn't require direct or physical contact at all.
What does a Pet Bakery Owner focus on?
The main focus of a pet bakery owner is to produce quality pet baked treats with an added flair of design and appeal to both pets and their owners, which are then sold via a shop or bakery.
Pet bakeries focus on BAKED goods, where pet treat makers make all sorts of stuff for animals to eat.
With who does a Pet Bakery Owner work with?
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What are the daily tasks of a Pet Bakery Owner?
- talk with suppliers
- design the treats according to recipes and shape
- prepare the mixture
- bake treats
- design and produce branded packaging
- ensure registration is in place
- discuss budget with bookkeeper
- manage marketing campaign
- talk with prospective buyers
- open and manage the bakery
- manage any additional staff
Work Environment of a Pet Bakery Owner
Where does a Pet Bakery Owner work?
Environment –
Pet bakery owners work from a licensed business premises, which can be situated in a small town or in a large city. Most of the work is done at the bakery.
Places of Employment –
Bakery owners are self-employed.
What is the average annual salary of a Pet Bakery Owner?
The average yearly income for pet bakery owners in the US is around $50,000 per year, but there are some bakeries that make far more. The income will be determined by many factors, including quality of the treats, where the bakery is situated, and how many customers are available.
Can Working Pet Bakery Owner be Promoted?
Private Bakery Owners normally have their own businesses. Those that work for existing bakeries may start as assistant bakers, but can be promoted to head bakers.
Intern > Assistant Baker> Senior or Lead Baker > Management
What kind of difficulties can a Pet Bakery Owner face?
Those working for existing bakeries can earn around US35,000 per year. Owning your own business could mean less, but it could also lead to a very successful income.
Future Growth and Opportunities
The concept of a pet bakery is growing steadily around the world. In some countries the concept is still new and could be a great opportunity to get into the market. The pet industry keeps on expanding and as the amount of pet owners grow, so will their need to buy products for their pets. Most pet bakeries focus on dogs, but baking treats for other pets is big business! In fact, the pet food and treat market in the USA alone saw over US36 billion in sales for 2019.
Which Skills are required by a Pet Bakery Owner?
The skills required for a career as a pet bakery owner can be divided into two very important groups. The first is the group containing life skills, which are the core skills that are necessary or desirable for full participation in everyday life. The second group is career skills, or the specific skills required to allow a person to enter and operate effectively within a specific career. Some or maybe even all of the life skills can assist in strengthening the career skills, and they might even be the same for specific careers.
Life Skills
- Self-awareness
- Empathy
- Critical thinking
- Creative thinking
- Decision making
- Problem Solving
- Effective communication
- Interpersonal relationship
Career Skills
- Good business knowledge
- Good baking skills
- Basic customer service skills
- Good health and physical fitness
- Good computer literacy (business software)
Which Skills are required by a Pet Accessories Maker?
Business Studies is not a compulsory subject for further tertiary studies, but it will definitely help you to understand and run your own business one day.
If your school does have Home Ed as a subject, it would be a great choice. Learning more about baking while still in school will prepare you for when you have your own bakery.
Biology is recommended, not for university acceptance, but because it will teach you a lot about the anatomy of animals, and their diets.
The subjects you choose at school are important as they lay the foundation for further studies at college or university. While still at school, it’s also important to learn more about the animals you will work with, as well as gain some experience.
OZT has a list of various tertiary institutions where you can study further, after school. Each of these institutions also have their own Group page on OZT where you will find the exact subjects they require of you to have passed in school. Keep these requirements in mind, and discuss it with your school, guidance counselor and parents to ensure that you are prepared!
What will I need to Study to become a Pet Bakery Owner?
Minimum Requirements
There is no minimum requirements to become a Pet Bakery Owner, although a High School Certificate would be beneficial to prepare you to deal with setting up a business, dealing with costs and basic marketing techniques.
Study Focus
It is important that you learn as much as you possibly can about running a bakery and what kinds of food is best for different breeds of pets before you think about opening your bakery. Short Courses in cat or dog health, business setup and marketing are recommended.
Study Duration
The duration of Short Courses can be between a few hours (online) to a few months.
Minimum Requirements
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Possible Career Preparation Paths
If this is your dream career that you want to pursue, then it’s important to plan the way forward.
Why is planning important?
To ensure that you understand the requirements for your career, and that you are always prepared for the next step on the road towards your dream. A Preparation Path is like your road map to where you want to be.
Possible Paths:
Possible Combined Career Paths
It is possible to sometimes combine two or more related careers. This normally happens when you study and practice a specific main career, but the knowledge and experience gained also help you to have a paying hobby or secondary income career.
Possible Alternatives (there are a lot more):
Stepping Stone Career
Being a pet bakery owner can also be used as a stepping stone career. A stepping stone career is one which is used to help you get to another career, normally because the other career is too difficult to reach (sometimes due to things like high fees etc).
You can begin as a baker from home after basic short courses and expert guidance (maybe working under a mentor). The money made can then be used to pay for studies towards a promotion or another career, and the experience helps in gaining knowledge. One paying to help get to the other.
Some of the possible paths:
Training and apprenticeship
Even though it is important to study to get into some of the animal careers, most of the skills you will need as a cartoonist will be acquired through practice. This means that you will learn how to perform some of the daily tasks by actually doing it a few times and learning the steps.
In some cases entry level positions require training sessions even before you are allowed to actually perform your job duties. These sessions are offered by the place of employment, after you have successfully applied.
Apprenticeship is also possible where you need to learn baking skills from an expert.
Join the Pet Bakery Owners Group in the OZT Community to learn more and even interact with the educational institutions that will help you secure your dream career!
Average level of education of people entering the career
Licenses, Certificate, Registration and Professional Associations
Certain animal careers require some form of legal certification to prove that you can indeed do the work, and work with the necessary equipment.
Although not required by law, certifications may help workers establish their credentials and enhance their skills.
Learn more about requirements by joining OZT in the OZT Community.
Professional Associations
Where can I study further?
All of the above information will help you understand more about the Career, including the fact that there are different paths to take to reach it. But if you are almost done with High School (Grades 11 or 12), you also need to start thinking about further studies, and WHERE you will study.
See the List of Universities, Colleges and Online Training Academies who offer courses towards baking.
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