FOR DOGGY PETS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1926, Page 7

FOR DOGGY PETS.

HOTEL WAITING ROOMS

LONDON, _Jan. 12. “No, sir, wo are not going to the dogs,” says tho Evening News, discussing tlio lament of Mr Frank Downer, of Adelaide, that London women are mad on dogs. The newspaper adds: “While London is not sw'arining with dogs, it must be admitted, in fairness to the ‘Australian dog-spotter,’ that modern woman’s craze for a ‘doggy pet’ has forced hotels, restaurants and shojis to make elaborate arrangements for parking the animals. At one shop an assistant minds 100 a day, and most restaurants provide a dogs’ waiting room.” One hoad w'aiter said: “It is surprising how many women try. to smuggle little Topsy or Sweotkin into the restaurant. They seem heartbroken at having to leave them to the mercy of the cruel world.” The best London hotels have special kennels. Women pay as much’ as 100 guineas for a “doggy pet.”