A pet care business that serves the Dayton and Cincinnati region has a new owner, and he knows the service from the other side of the leash: Tony Baron, a Pet Butler customer for nearly a decade, has purchased the Southwest Ohio franchise, the company announced Monday in Dayton.
Baron bought the territory from Todd Figgins and RJ McKay in a franchise resale. The business provides pet waste removal and pet care services to residential and commercial customers throughout the Dayton and Cincinnati region, and Baron plans to continue serving those customers while building on the relationships and reputation the sellers established.
The purchase marks a career change for Baron, who comes to business ownership after more than 20 years in corporate work. He said the opportunity grew directly out of his years as a customer, as he weighed different franchise options and kept returning to the brand he already used.
“As I explored different opportunities, I kept coming back to this one,” Baron said. “I already knew the brand as a customer, but what really stood out was the strength of the business itself. Todd and RJ built a great reputation, strong customer relationships and a foundation that made this an easy decision.”
Pet Butler framed the handoff as a continuity story rather than a restart. “The best franchise resales aren’t about replacing an owner. They’re about continuing a legacy,” said Mark Potocki, the company’s vice president of business development. “The seller is able to move on to their next chapter, the buyer steps into an established business, and customers continue receiving the service they’ve come to expect. That’s exactly what happened here.”
Pet Butler is a national franchise with more than 100 territories across the United States, built on recurring service revenue, and it offers both semi-absentee and owner-operator models to franchise buyers. The Southwest Ohio territory’s local service line remains 937-470-7351.
For customers across the Dayton and Cincinnati suburbs, nothing about the weekly service changes with the sale — the same routes, the same crews’ work and the same phone number, under an owner who spent nearly ten years as a client before deciding the business was worth buying outright.