Aroostook woman leaves dog breeding career to become a body piercer

Aroostook woman leaves dog breeding career to become a body piercer

HOULTON, Maine — At 50, a Houlton woman traded 19 years as a dog breeder to train as a body piercer for her daughter’s Houlton tattoo business.   Jia Rumi went all in for this mother/daughter gig at her daughter Dawn Crowe’s Water Street tattoo shop. A year later Rumi is a certified body piercer and one of only a handful of state licensed piercers in northern Maine. She will soon be one of three certified Association of Professional Piercers in …