Our Story
Our Beginnings
Owner and Founder Jamie Matson, born and raised in Arizona, graduated from college with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology and began her medical career at the Arizona Heart Institute along with becoming a personal trainer at ASU West. But her love for pets, and working with animals, pulled her into learning how to become a pet groomer.
After graduating from grooming school, Jamie and her husband, Bill, and her dad designed her first grooming trailer and she began Fields for Fur Mobile Grooming. She traveled long distances from Queen Creek to Lake Pleasant, Arizona and many cities in between. Going door to door with her trailer, which soon grew into a large school bus, and her first two employees. After spending years in the mobile grooming hundreds of pets and putting many miles on the grooming bus, an idea to expand one-on-one grooming without the use of cages to as many pets as possible began to grow.
Jamie knew that the attention to detail and compassion she gave at each appointment was what matters the most to her clients, yet it was so hard to find. She also had a strong desire to lead a larger team and create rewarding jobs for others in the community. And so…the Cageless Grooming concept was born.
Over the past 15 years Jamie and Bill have opened five brick and mortar locations around The Valley of the Sun, but now they focus their energy on the two locations in Glendale and Peoria, the grooming academy, and their twin boys, Robert and William. The company was named after the twins and you may see them wandering around the salons now and then. This family owned business, and the twins, have grown over the years to a Team of 50 amazing, talented individuals all focused on creating the best grooming experience for you and your pets.
But that’s not the end of the story.
Our Growth
You see, in order to live up to the standard of creating safe stress-free grooming environments, Jamie and her Team knew more groomers needed an opportunity to learn how to be a great groomer.
And so the next chapter in the company growth was developed and AZ Pet Grooming Academy was established in 2021. As one of only two Arizona licensed and state registered grooming academies in the state, Jamie and her Team have created a school that isn’t just a place to learn. It is a place for change - An opportunity to mold and shape the grooming industry into a welcoming environment where groomers can find camaraderie, collaboration, care and compassion.
With two salon locations, a grooming academy, and energetic twin boys, Jamie has her hands full, but she’s always open for more challenges and with her incredible grooming team by her side she knows the future is an open chapter to explore and create!
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The Twin Tails Difference?
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