Poor pets, just disposable to these Dubai residents

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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

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.

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?

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

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.

@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

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

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.

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.

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)

@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?

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.

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

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.

Oh jeez it's you 😆

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

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

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

Thanks for the link @Witchesbe

Hmmm, my cat or some random humans? I'd save him without a second thought. TBH I'd save him over a lot of humans that I know.

Not even just strays.
Even free-range cats with collars can get caught up in the culls as they are quite indiscriminate at times.
There are a lot of free-range cats there though who don't officially belong to anyone (or who have been abandoned) and rather than the government spaying them or finding them homes they just do big sweeps and pick them all up and put them down.
While some people probably are very irresponsible getting pets knowing they will leave and may have to leave them behind, there are also people who didn't intend to get a cat but the cat decided it lived with them now. So I do have sympathy with those people because it's hard to prevent that happening and they probably are in a huge dilemma now.

Yes, it's awful. Of course, you'd want to get on the first plane you could if you needed to get your children out, but surely, in these circumstances, they could allow pets to come too? I think children should be prioritised, but there should be enough planes sent to include pets (a lot could fit on as hand luggage/shoved under seats, which is better than the alternative).
I wanted a dog for a long time, but due to FT work etc I didn't get one, because if I couldn't prioritise it and treat it as family, then I shouldn't have one.

Very unsympathetic thread. My colleague's family is in Dubai and the sounds of drones overhead and being shot down is becoming the norm. How would you like to move somewhere ostensibly peaceful (my friend's family comes from a much poorer country) then be under threat of drone attack? Its not all influencers and tax exiles.

Is it really an emergency situation in Dubai where people are having to ditch everything, clothes, belongings, pets, and get out any way they can?

are wee seeing the people on foot and in vehicles at the borders like we did with Ukraine? Is it that desperate?

please correct me if I’m wrong as I know not everything is shown in the media. But I was under the impression Dubai is still safe, it’s more people choosing to leave in case it escalates.

is it an emergency evacuation issue or simply that there are no planes out because of the airport closure. I get the impression they are leaving, if they can, on commuter flights. Are the flights banning animals? Cats and small dogs would go practically in hand luggage, in overhead bins or under seats.

if you have larger animals isn’t overground travel possible?

i just haven’t seen a situation where it seems to be ditch everything and run, take only what you can carry issues.

I arrange for my dog somehow to be transported. I think the issue cited was that it cost a lot to take a pet, not that a pet couldn't be taken.

I'd find a pet sitter while I was sorting out an evacuation for my pet.

What if that human was a child?