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COLFAX- A local woman said her 6-month-old pet grooming business is taking off.

Jennie Griffin, a Merritt, Mich.-native, opened Sudzniscissors in November at 107 Canyon St.

Last week at her shop, there was hair flying around as she trimmed a small tan Chihauha mix named "Lilly."

"You should have been in here when I had a really hairy dog," Griffin said. "Hair floating all over the room."

This is lily's first time," Lilly's owner, Margie Anderson, said when asked how long she'd been coming there.

Griffin, who put herself through Paragon School of Pet Grooming in Michigan while working at a...