Lap of luxury: Gareth Brock (pictured with his dog Ebony) believes pet resorts offer a better class of care.
When the holidays roll around, finding somewhere for pets to stay can be an expensive endeavour.
Pet resorts, once commonly known as dog kennels and
catteries, are charging up to $110 a day to keep pampered pooches and
pussycats in luxury accommodation.
Australians spend $474 million each year on boarding their
dogs and cats, according to the Australian Companions Animal Council
Report. And the summer holidays are by far the busiest, and most
profitable, time of year for more than 2500 businesses in this industry.
Every year the Dogs Country Club and Retreat in Baxter, south of
Melbourne, is booked out by June for Christmas and summer holidays.
Manager Cory Andrews said the summer is the time every
boarding business books out and owners are only too happy to pay for
added extras.
"Kennels and catteries are very different to what they used
to be not only because they are more caring and comfortable for pets,
but because people run them like a business with qualified staff and
well-maintained facilities," she says.
"With people like ourselves, that reinvestment is recurring
and that's a big shift in the industry." RSPCA figures show 63 per cent
of Australian households have pets. Of those, 39 per cent own dogs and
29 per cent have cats. These households are driving a $6 billion....
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