Does Your Dog Need a Vacation?

[Ben]

If the answer is yes, and yo have $74 large, I have the place for you (you're not allowed to go):

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2013/06/18/pooch-package-gives-your-dog-74000-vacation/

If I had a bazillion dollars, I might do something like this only because I am somehow picturing it as when a cartoon dog goes on vacation, and the video would be hilarious.

In the real world, my dog would consider a better vacation to be sitting on the porch and eating $74,000 worth of bacon.

[TommyGunn]

Absurd.



And sorta sad they won't let the owners come along with the dog.
Hope the dogs don't suffer separation anxiety.....







Or the owners!

[BlueStarLizzard]

Meh. The luxury pet service crap annoys me.

We provide quality care for dogs. The dogs are happy, healthy and could care less about the smell, stains in the concrete or the fact that some of the walls are a little battered.
The luxury pet boarding facilities provide a bunch of crap for the owners, and I think the animal care is in danger of coming second to the delusions of the owners.

[BlueStarLizzard]

Absurd.



And sorta sad they won't let the owners come along with the dog.
Hope the dogs don't suffer separation anxiety.....







Or the owners!

For every one dog that comes in with sepration anxeity issues, two come in with owners who seem to have all the sepration anxeity.

[bedlamite]

Meh. The luxury pet service crap annoys me.

We provide quality care for dogs. The dogs are happy, healthy and could care less about the smell, stains in the concrete or the fact that some of the walls are a little battered.
The luxury pet boarding facilities provide a bunch of crap for the owners, and I think the animal care is in danger of coming second to the delusions of the owners.

I'm gonna disagree with that. Anytime we go anywhere, Dozer is very interested in what everything smells like.

[BlueStarLizzard]

I'm gonna disagree with that. Anytime we go anywhere, Dozer is very interested in what everything smells like.

You know, as I typed that I thought "i should really change this to 'they actually like the smell."

[Tallpine]

Only vacation that my dogs want is for me to take them on walks constantly 

[charby]

I think my dog would want me to spend $74k on taking him upland bird hunting everywhere legal in the world.

[BlueStarLizzard]

You know...

The more I think about this, the more I wish I had $7400 dollers to blow so I could send Pearl to torture these people.

The "surf" lessons alone would probably result in the surfing trainer to get gouged, bit and maybe even end up in tears due to The Look. Then she would run off, leading her caretakers on a merry race down the beach, and cause them all to hang their heads out the limo windows to prevent the barfing sure to be inspired by that stinky dead thing she found and rolled in.

I think she would have fun. O:)

[Azrael256]

That is The Dumbest Thing Ever (today) and demonstrates a total lack of understanding of dog's minds.


On the other hand, anybody spending $74k on a dog holiday is probably enough of a loon that their very presence is driving their poor animals completely bonkers.

Ok, I support this.

[Perd Hapley]

On the other hand, anybody spending $74k on a dog holiday is probably enough of a loon that their very presence is driving their poor animals completely bonkers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_KrSWI8F2E

[lupinus]

I'm betting the dog would be much happier with 74k worth of liver sausage and an owner that wasn't a total mommy parts.

[vaskidmark]

Let us start with

the luxury Paw Seasons Hotel -- near Bristol, England

Has anybody ever been to Bristol?  Has anybody ever read any of the Victorian through mid-20th century British literature that uses Bristol as a setting?  It makes "dreary" and "wretched" seem quite desirable.

Q: Were you aware that "The Bristol Stomp" was about a town in Pennsylvania, not that seaside cesspool in England?  http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/songs/Bristol_Stomp.html

"Dog popcorn"?  I guess for $74K I might be willing to take the hard bits out of the bowl before Fideaux sticks his/her snout in.

Meals prepared by a personal chef?  Unless somebody's pooch has grown opposable thumbs and learned how to operate a can opener, 99.9% of all domestic dogs have their meals prepared by a personal chef.  And any self-respecting dog will not sit on a chair pulled up to the table to eat - they want that plate properly served by being tipped over onto the floor.

But I'm sure tere are loons out there who will gladly fork over the monry, if for no other reason that to prove to the rest of the useless oxygen theifs they hang around with that they are "more caring" or something.

stay safe.

[Ben]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_KrSWI8F2E

I've gotta watch that movie again. :)

[MillCreek]

In the real world, my dog would consider a better vacation to be sitting on the porch and eating $74,000 worth of bacon.

The dog, hell.  This would be my idea of a perfect vacation.

[Tallpine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_KrSWI8F2E

She makes coffee nervous 

[BlueStarLizzard]

Let us start with
Has anybody ever been to Bristol?  Has anybody ever read any of the Victorian through mid-20th century British literature that uses Bristol as a setting?  It makes "dreary" and "wretched" seem quite desirable.

Q: Were you aware that "The Bristol Stomp" was about a town in Pennsylvania, not that seaside cesspool in England?  http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/songs/Bristol_Stomp.html

"Dog popcorn"?  I guess for $74K I might be willing to take the hard bits out of the bowl before Fideaux sticks his/her snout in.

Meals prepared by a personal chef?  Unless somebody's pooch has grown opposable thumbs and learned how to operate a can opener, 99.9% of all domestic dogs have their meals prepared by a personal chef.  And any self-respecting dog will not sit on a chair pulled up to the table to eat - they want that plate properly served by being tipped over onto the floor.

But I'm sure tere are loons out there who will gladly fork over the monry, if for no other reason that to prove to the rest of the useless oxygen theifs they hang around with that they are "more caring" or something.

stay safe.

We actually have a container of "dog popcorn" at the shop. It's just puffy textured treats and unsuprisingly they arn't very popular. Most dogs just spit them out.

And my dads dog, Northwest had a spot at the table and his plate and he sat at the table on his chait to eat. But them mom and I moved in and the bacholer days of dogs being served at the table were over.
Northwest never forgave the insult and any food set on the table he considered his unless a human was actually already seated.