A new hotel opened in Pompano Beach, FL. For pets. The rooms have plasma TVs and there is a disco. It is called (where is the puking smiley when you need it) Chateau Poochie. :rolleyes: Warning about the site: It doesn’t work well on Firefox.
Now, I love animals. I have a dog and buy him treats and toys. I think he’s cute and funny. But he is a dog. I will not spend thousands of dollars to board him while I travel. He doesn’t need “gourmet holistic meals”, whatever the fuck that means. He licks his asshole. I don’t think he’d really care what the fuck the food was made from.
I hear about bullshit like this and then think about where that money should really go. Not to some stuck-up bitches or to their dogs. It should be going to help people in need. Do you think the lucky people at the Broward Outreach Center get massages and a turndown service at night?
Can we please get our priorities straight people? Take care of the people first, poodles later.
I agree that sounds like a completely silly (and not in a fun, or amusing way) business model, and way for people to drop more money in a week than I take home in a year.
I’m not so sure I agree with the rallying cry, “take care of people first, poodles later.” I’ve had serious arguments with people who honestly thought that it was immoral to feed pets when there are people starving. In order for that reasoning to be consistent, in my mind, you have to exclude all the middles: i.e. you can’t spend money on music, or computer games, or anything that you don’t need for your job, or to keep your family healthy, until you’ve corrected all the privations that anyone else might be suffering with regards to those same needs.
I’d say that I were reducing things to the absurd, but that’s exactly what I think that rallying cry does in the first place.
I must admit, I took my dog and my brother’s dog to The Barkley Pet Hotel for the weekend of my brother’s wedding.
We both love our dogs way too much, and neither of them had ever been in a kennel before. So since we were droppin’ money that weekend like it was going out of style, “the girls” got to stay there. We paid extra for walks and swims. They had “poolside suites.”
Was it expensive? Hell yes. Would we ever do it again? No - unless hell freezes over and I get married too. It was fun for what it was.
The place didn’t suck, it just was not worth the big bucks. Unless there’s someone sitting with my dog 24 hours a day, she is not going to be happy anyway and that’s just not something they can do at any kennel, so she’ll be going to the regular kennel from now on.
However, I did hear that her old trainer is going to be starting a kennel, and I look forward to that. $20/night for much better care, I think.
See, I see this kind of thing, and I don’t think, “what’s the world coming to?” I think, man, I wish I’d thought of that! I have nothing but respect for people who come up with clever ways to separate fools from their money.
Agreed. But nothing like The Tried & True Method®, a.k.a., buying your way to eternal happiness. Start some sort of cult and if done correctly, you’ll be swimming in C-notes rather quickly. After all, I doubt there’s a richer, more powerful ‘nation’ in the world outside The Vatican. So, does that make all Catholics continuing to maintain the status-quo, “fools”?
Hell – hmm… maybe that should be “Dang!” or some such in this context – I’m a dog owner/lover myself, and I often remember the phrase (or variants thereof. Not into looking for authorship ATM) “The more I know people, the more I love dogs.” But I very much doubt I’d try to save my dog over a human if that came to be the conundrum. OTOH, it’s not like most humans have to contend with euthanasia unlike many a dog.
Not the first thread we’ve on this topic, so fuck it, must admit I don’t know the right answer. If there is one that is…
If I were to have a dog–which I wouldn’t, because I’d rather eat hot coal for breakfast every day than own a dog–I probably wouldn’t leave it with these people. I think it’s a safe assumption that anyone who likes dogs that much (I’m referring to the “hotel” staff, here) is probably going to have sex with them.
I don’t know how that’s a safe assumption at all. The number of people who actually like to have sex with dogs is not that huge, and they’re hardly likely to do it in a place where there’s webcams and other staff around to catch them in the act.
It’s much more likely that either a) the people who own, run and staff the place are of the “fur baby” mentality that is so often decried here on the dope (and who would be absolutely horrified at the idea of someone assaulting their or someone else’s “fur baby”) or b) they are simply rather shrewd business people who’ve found a niche where they can easily persuade a large number of the aforementioned “fur baby” set to part with high amounts of cash without much effort.
You’re looking at the business website there. If they’re catering for people who honestly believe their pets are analagous to children, those people are going to want to hear that their pets are given “Massage and Snuggle Time” rather than just getting “Daily walks and some petting time with trainers”. Hence the over-the-top language used when describing their services.
If only there was some pamphlet, or manifesto perhaps, that would lay out a plan for everyone to give up any luxuries or property, to be equally distributed to the people. I wonder why nobody’s tried that?
Fercrissakes, I wasn’t serious. And no, I haven’t looked at the website. (Although the one person I’ve ever known who liked dogs enough to run something like this, also liked to have sex with them. Anybody who has such extremes of affection for animals makes me wonder.)
I think we’re losing sight of the real crime against humanity and canininity here: That website.
The page doesn’t fully load. There is no real information on it. For Dog’s sake, there’s an e-mail address, but not only is it not a link, it can’t even be highlighted.
If those people can’t even be bothered to make a decent website, would you really entrust them with the care of your furbaby?
