Apprentice trainer Eryka Underwood, left, and Makayla Hawkins, trainer and owner of Paw Talk, work with several dogs in their current basement location in Jackson. The business recently purchased building north of Jackson to grow into.
(Photo by Aaron Eisenhauer)
Makayla Hawkins knows how to train dogs to sit, lay down, heel and obey a variety of other commands, but when it came to entrepreneurial skills, she wasn�t quite sure how to start a business and keep it from rolling over and playing dead…