Poor pets, just disposable to these Dubai residents

[NototerrorismIntheUK]

Reflection of Dubai ' non national residents'. I judge you.

Fleeing and dumping cats and dogs. So basically pets left to die. Another character flaw to add to the vain, awful types that live there. Fake Dubai, modern day slavery loving, artificial, grim, and no conscience so animals are also disposable. 😢

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/11/pets-abandoned-dubai-expat-owners-flee-iran-war

Exactly this.

Nope mine would be in their basket and going where ever I go. They're my responsibility, and not something just to dump.

Fair enough.

Absolutely soulless bag of cunts.

Things that happened 2000 years ago are still used in discussion today. 100 years is a mere tick tock,

Don’t judge a person before walking a mile in their shoes. It’s very very easy to say from the safety of your home that “I would never ….”

Your pet needs to be vaccinated against rabies for example and a blood test 30 days later that needs to go to a EU approved lab. Then wait 3 months after the blood draw. Plus tapeworm treatment 5 days before

What would you do if this was the case?

Maybe people should have thought ahead. When I was a child my family lived the expat life (fortunately never the Middle East, we were in Hong Kong and then in Singapore) and this is precisely why my parents would never let us get pets. Not because of war. Because it’s not your home country, you’re going to end up moving on eventually, and it’s difficult and expensive to move pets with you when you do leave.

But yes I totally agree OP, just cruel and disgusting.

I see absolutely nothing wrong with this.

Animal welfare was never very high on the list of priorities in Dubai, tbh -- there used to be big culls of the large population of street strays before high-profile international events, and it wasn't wildly unusual for a certain type of person to keep a 'tame' cheetah or tiger cub chained up on their property.

The OP (like a few other MNetters) is eaten up with it and using a war in which people are suffering and dying, as a reason to spaff off about their hatred.

Never been to Dubai but I'm not a fan of this sort of vile behaviour we've seen since the war kicked off.

Could we not abandon the vacuous influencers & z-listers and airlift the pets to safety in the UK?

I had no idea.

To be honest, Dubai hasn't crossed my mind until recently. This story saddened me. However, if they do as you say and treat humans appallingly then wow.

I would probably just PTS if l couldn't take them, they wouldnt know any difference, love my pets but would always choose human family over animals.

@NototerrorismIntheUK im English but my mum was from Northern Ireland. My daddy was a soldier. We were home visiting my granny and me and her were up the street. The army evacuated us sharpish coz there was a bomb. We heard it bang as we ran away.

my granny had the hold of me so tight and she shifted like I’ve never seen before or since. And she literally flung herself around me when the bomb went off. I was about 7 so this would have been about 1975. I still remember the feeling of the bomb - not the noise but the feel.

I can assure you my granny would have killed the pope himself to get me to safety.

the dog wouldnt have even entered her head.

I can’t judge anyone who doesn’t take a pet in a life or death flee situation.

Fair enough.

I think the previous poster was referring to this, if you hadn’t already seen the link someone else posted

I wonder how pets survive in parts of the world where they're not treated like members of the family; just like animals fending for themselves. I'm guessing they all live horrific lives 😢.

Wow. No surprise then.

@GladHedgehog my dogs could hunt (and have done previously) for us 🤷‍♀️ pretty sure we’d survive…admittedly I am not keen on skinning rabbits or plucking pheasants but hey ho food is food

I also have enough dog food for around 2 months at home and if I did need to flee pretty sure I could stop and get some more

People are illogical

Id never leave my dog i absolutely love her and know she loves me.

Some might but id never.

That being the case: Other people are having to stay behind to look after all these animals as the owners all flee.

That’s why there’s rescues that bring dogs etc from Greece or Romania or the like.

OP, my husband's cousin just came back from Dubai. Evacuation flights start at £700 a pop, you face hours in the airport, which gets bombed the most, to find out if you even got in. People in queues were sleeping in the car park. They were allowed limited luggage. Two weeks ago they were planning a trip to the desert, now they've had their life upended. Easy for you to judge from your comfy armchair.

Or deer but I am pretty sure we’d survive