DOGS’ BATH CLUB

Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 July 1930, Page 7

DOGS’ BATH CLUB

SOME LUXURY DIPS. A clogs’ batli! (hub. where owners may drink cocktails and exchange doggy yarns while their pets are being washecUha.s just been opened at Chelsea, England. The club its fully licensed. The walls of the lounge are" painted, frieze fashion. to represent sylvan scenes, in which appear famous British dogs. Here are to life found portraits of the Prince of A Yates ’ Cairns, the Duke cf Gloucester’s terrier, Lady Plunkett’s Pekingese, and a dozen others of repute, including King Edward’s famous Gesar. It- is alii very jolly for the dog-lovc-r. of course, hut so different from the other quarters where flic- real business of the club isi carried, on.

Half-a-dozen girls in uniform waterproof overaiils are in attendance daily. Tubs, bawls and different-sized ‘human” baths, supplied with hot and told showers, arc in use ; while on kennel shelves, customers gloomily await their turn. In one of the big baths stood an abject Airedale, covered in soapsuds. A few feet away, in a miniature bath, complete with baby-taps, there fidgeted a resentful Yorkshire terrier about the size of a kitten. He Was having special treatment —a particular soap, delicate towelling. combing, scenting, and powdering.