Poor pets, just disposable to these Dubai residents

Thanks for the link @Witchesbe

British chamber of commerce in UAE ha some post on pet relocation services.
Found it
https://britishchamberdubai.com/news-details/4993

Hopefully they all get out safe. What a worry for all of you.

She is trying to get them out with her, if that can't be arranged she won't be leaving unfortunately.

Oh jeez it's you 😆

Is there are chance she can arrange for the pets to come with her?

I sympathise. I don’t think I could live with the guilt of wondering what happened to my dog if I just cut him loose.

@TheGoddessAthena if it was a random human or my dog- byeeee! 😆

My dad's sister and family live there. She is refusing to leave because of their cat and dog. Madness if you ask me, and my dad is obviously worried for her safety, as we all are.

@Ihateboris that and I love them yes, I’d be a lot safer with them than without them in any form of post bombing/war situation.

They are an important part of my family - they are loved, well cared why would I leave them behind?

I have really thought about this. I am extremely attached to my dog, as many are. I’d definitely try to bring him. Obviously the kids would come first and if I couldn’t find a solution to bringing the dog home, I think I’d rather put him down, instead of leaving him to his fate.
My experience of living in a Muslim county is that dogs aren’t viewed as pets in the same way as here. So it would be extra worrisome to leave them fend for themselves.

I also wonder what happened to their staff (the expats staff)

That's subjective though isn't it? For example, to me, my dog is more important than you are. You may think that humans are more important but you don't get to decide what other people think.

Oh, well that’s ok then.

WTF

i have no love for the UAE. I love my pets and have gone to extremes to care for them.

I can honestly say it my region was being bombed, my priority would be getting to a different place with my child. Pets would be a secondary consideration. If we could bring them, that would be ideal, but if they meant not getting away, we would sacrifice them.

So you'd only save them because you've spent money training them??? 🤔 How strange

@MrFluffyDogIsMyBestFriend I’ve spent a small fortune on my dogs training - they are a valuable

They can hunt, retrieve, are trained in personal protection, pretty sure they could find one of us if something happened

I put more trust in their ability to look after my children in any situation than anybody in our government

My dog would be coming with me, if it couldn’t I wouldn’t get one in the first bloody place. I wouldn’t get a pet if I wasn’t committed to staying wherever I was for its lifetime or I’d get a pet passport and necessary documentation in advance of entering one of these countries. I’ve been before and it’s not somewhere I’d ever go again. Too restrictive for my liking.

Children are see as expendable by humans, so not sure why anyone is surprised about pets. We are like a large parasitic life form on this planet.

My dog isn't trained at all and I'd still take him. What a strange thing to say!

I suspect that when faced with reality and in a genuine life and death situation, most people would leave their pets. My experience in the Balkans, where people were literally turning on former friends, and they often had a matter of minutes to escape or be shot, people leave, if they even get the chance. A lot didn't get the chance to leave, killed in their own homes, and those doing the killing aren't wasting time humanely killing pets.

While not the same as in the ME, leaving on foot only with what you can carry, few are going to be taking a cat carrier or a dog on a leash. Its an extra mouth to feed. Turned onto the street, at least they have some chance of survival through scavenging.

If the only exit is on a plane not set up for carrying lots of pets safely and buying an appropriate hold crate isn't necessarily quick or easy, when faced with a choice of get on the plane now with your kids and no dog or stay stuck for an unspecified period and risk your kids, most will choose to leave. They don't necessarily want to do it, but what else should they do?

Everyone coming back from Dubai should be charged all of the tax they evaded to be let back in. Otherwise fuck them, let them fucking deal with their choices.
Cunts.

See Ive never really understand how this works. Your dogs are your world, fine. But when they die in a few years time (hopefully of old age after a wonderful life) then what? Your life is over? No more happiness for you because they're gone? Or will you just be sad for a bit then get another dog?

I’ve lived in Dubai and several other countries
over the years. We always paid to ship our pets with us wherever we went. It’s expensive and many companies don’t cover the cost when relocating employees (most “expats” are actually there doing real jobs, it’s not all influencers as recent media would have you think). Plenty of other expats always shipped their pets. Plenty didn’t. You get arseholes everywhere. Look at all the dumped pets in the UK. The people that left without making arrangements for their pets are likely
the ones who would have dumped them anyway, conflict or no conflict.

I think this is a bit tone deaf tbh

In cyprus 2 years ago with the fires the animals cats and dogs were left but a charity stepped in and got the dogs and took them elsewhere, im sure animal charities will step in

UAE government has asked people not to do this due to intelligence and security concerns.

Anyone posting images of missiles flying about is being arrested:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/briton-detained-dubai-filming-missiles-b1274344.html

I feel exactly the same. My dogs aren't just pets, they're my absolute world.