Dog in Desert © Rupert Taylor-Price
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It can be hard being a dog. All that lying around and being fed can take its toll. Luckily, harried dogs (and other pets) in Dubai can now relax at the world’s first seven star pet retreat, the Urban Tails Pet Resort.
The hotel has plasma TVs in rooms and butlers to cater for the animals’ every need…and speakers play classical music in communal areas of the resort to ”promote calmness”.
According to the owner:
I have always had pets and I feel that animals are given a bit of a raw deal in the UAE in terms of pet services on offer and they do not have much freedom in comparison to dogs in Europe.
It’s great to see business ingenuity being used to relieve the suffering of these most vulnerable members of Emirati society. Meanwhile, on an entirely unrelated note, guest workers in Dubai have to walk through raw sewage to get to and from their unventilated, overcrowded trailers.
Read more about Urban Tails at Small World News Service.