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cannot receive'
Fr Tony Lopes
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Mumbai dogs get home-delivered meals
Monday, Dec. 11, 2006.
Mumbai's fussy high-society dogs can now feast on home-cooked cuisine
specially adapted to suite their individual desires and delivered hot to
their homes.
MUMBAI, India - Mumbai's fussy high-society dogs can now feast on
gourmet
cuisine specially adapted to their individual tastes and delivered to
their
homes.
More than 500 people have signed up for the Home-Care Dog Food service
that
caters to canines in Mumbai, India's booming financial and entertainment
capital, said the owner of the business, Wasiff Khan.
"They tell us about their dog's likes, dislikes, allergies, and we come
up
with a meal plan for the month," Khan said.
Owners' habits are also taken into account, said Khan. On Hindu holidays
when people do not eat meat for religious reasons, their dogs go
vegetarian
too.
Those who can afford the service, which costs from 30 rupees to 120
rupees
($0.66 to $2.60) daily, are attracted by the convenience, said Khan.
Before now, such pet pampering was unheard of in India, where hundreds
of
millions of people earn less in a day than the cost of these meals and
where
stray dogs are found on every street corner.
Demand for luxuries has grown however as India's economic boom generates
a
large middle class with disposable income, as well as a small group of
very
wealthy, particularly in Mumbai.
"When you eat well, so should your dogs," said Khan, now experimenting
with
meat-based birthday cakes for his clients.
J.C. Khanna, secretary of the local Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to
Animals, said it was just a case of people trying to do what is best for
their pets.
"The poor share meals with dogs, they spend on medicines if their dog
falls
sick," he said of shanty-dwellers who care for stray dogs in Mumbai.
"If the rich can afford to feed their dogs like this, so be it, as long
as
dogs are loved," he added.
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