Pine Island man builds grooming business from love of animals. 7:00 am, Dec. 22, 2020 ×
Noah Bauer grooms a customer s labradoodle in his grooming truck in Pine Island Friday, December 18, 2020. Bauer, a 2017 Pine Island graduate, is up to his eyeballs in dog hair with his new mobile pet grooming business. (Ken Klotzbach / kklotzbach@postbulletin.com)
PINE ISLAND As a child, Noah Bauer would wait at the bottom of the gutter drains to catch chipmunks that came scurrying out. I got bit once, he said.
But Bauer wasn t put off. He loves animals, and just wanted that experience of bonding with the creatures.
His mom, Traci Bauer, said Noah would bring home snakes, the aforementioned chipmunks and other animals to show her when he was little. It s that love of animals, she said, that makes his new business such a good fit for her son.