We’ve had many new doggos join the Ferguson Fam lately and I thought it would be a good idea to introduce ourselves and how we started Ferguson's Treatos!
My name is Lucy and I am a mum of two human kids and one GIANT fur ball named Fergus.
Chris (the husband) and I found Fergus on a Facebook post about a month after we got married.
We visited him as a 2 week old pup before putting down his deposit (a no brainer!) and picked him up 6 weeks later.
Fergus has been the joy of our lives since.
This is a photo of Fergus coming home with us. He vomited twice in the car!
Fergus got us through the COVID lockdowns as a newly married couple settling in to our new home.
He gave us reason to spend hours at the park after work and introduced us to many new friends which kept us sane during those dark lockdown days.
How did we go from dog mama to dog biz mama?
Well, in 2022 I was on maternity leave and was blessed with a pretty good sleeping baby.
Twiddling my thumbs whilst my Bub did 2x 4 hour naps per day (this was super lucky, I don’t know what I did and my second bub certainly did not do this), I started looking into starting my own business.
I had dabbled with many side hustles in the past but none ever really took off. My rap sheet of failed entrepreneurial hustles include:
- An airport shuttle business that connected neighbours who happen to be going to the airport at the same time (turns out not that often!)
- A travel planning business for large international groups travelling into Melbourne and Sydney.
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A food blog that turned into a food delivery network for home cooks and bakers. This kinda worked but we didn’t make enough money to pay anyone.
When I started Ferguson’s, I had super low expectations thinking it would probably be something I did for a few months until mat leave was over and I returned to my day job
Little did we know that 2.5 years later we would still be here…