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

So you’d chose your cat over a human child? Seriously?

That's helpful. Thanks 😊

The UK government would arrest you for saying hurty words online and are now abolishing trial by jury for such offences which means you’d be twice as likely to be convicted.

Not to mention bringing in the official definition of Islamophobia which will curtail our free speech and prevent us from calling out the rape gangs and anti women behaviour.

I was going to mention NI as that’s where I’m from. But you have explained it very well. I was caught up in quite a few bomb scares. Nobody knows how they would feel until it happens. It’s surreal and the instinct to get yourself and your family to safely is overwhelming. I can’t imagine too many people would be prioritising pets. Just because the attacks in Dubai are targeted doesn’t mean people aren’t utterly petrified. I remember hearing bombs go off miles away and the blood would feel like it was draining out of my body.

Apparently some of the humans she knows are evil or bad people so she'd chose a chat

A lot of pets were slaughtered in the UK at the outbreak of WW2 in 1939. Known as the "British Pet Massacre".

I would never leave my pets, not for anything. However OP you must be aware that people move on and abandon their pets in probably every country of the world - including the sainted UK. This is just another excuse for a Dubai bashing thread, and as no-one is forcing you to live there maybe just mind your own business?

There was a thread on here before where a few posters were saying they would save their cats over a baby or child in a house fire. They lack any kind of critical thinking skills.

Ah so you didn't know a thing about relocating pets from Dubai - you just decided to have a go at people with having no knowledge about it 🙄

I did hear an interview with an older american woman on radio 4 who went though their bad recent forest fires - and she held up resucers for her cat - they got her to leave but it was a close thing they nearly all got caught by fire with no escape.

Everyone was lying to her agreeing cat would be fine - she said later she knew really it was gone. In interview she was I don't know what they hell I was thinking - or how they had so much patience with me I nearly got us all killed it was that close.

So there are people out there who would priotise their and others safety for a pet .

I'd do my best for them but family would in end come first. I've no idea what it's like being out there at the minute so more relucant to judge.

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I needed that laugh!

It is a fucking war.

I love my cat, I do. But not even a skerrick of how much I love my children/my own life. I would leave her if I had to.

Hell, would eat her if I had to. We have an understanding, she would do the same.

We live in a bushfire area. In our plan, if she is present/easy to catch then into the car she goes. If not, a door is left open for her so she can get out of the house. Pets are not people.

It happens literally all the time in the UK.

Laugh hysterically? What an odd reaction. Ae you always this easily amused?

the pandemic has increased the number of socially inept people who cannot cope with human company. They are proud of the fact they prefer dogs to humans. And love saying how they would save Fido over a human. I feel sorry faith them as they are clearly quite isolated people.

I'd trample over my BIL to get to my cat! I'd trample over him to get to someone else's cat!

My priority would be me, DH and my cat. If I could help any randoms without compromising us then I would, but I wouldn't put us at further risk.

What is life like for pet dogs in Iran?

I am veru unclear about that "tax avoidance". No one avoided pyaing taxes on UK income isn't that right? They work abroad, get paid abroad, get taxed per local rules. What taxes do they owe UK?

Does that make every expat and immigrant everywhere "tax avoider" in their native country?

I had a Ukrainian woman living with me me who came here with her sister and niece. Sister’s cat travelled with her by train car and ferry from what is now Russian occupied land to the UK, with a side trip to Switzerland while he stayed with someone as they sorted out travel arrangements for him. He is much loved, and a big fluffy pile of grey containing a loud purr.

Exactly. Is someone a tax avoider if they go to HK or SG and earn more and pay less (but not 0% income tax)

Yes, it’s because posters such as @Dawnintheageofaquariams are poorly educated in the tax structures of the UK, which are build around residency not citizenship. Expats are not utilizing tax-supported services in the UK, therefore they do not pay for them. If you don’t like those rules, take it up with the government and lobby for a US-like citizenship model.

It’s just another way to rant about expats in the UAE. This conflict really seems to have brought out the worst among UK commentators, who manage to be both loud and wrong a majority of the time (the OP here being a case in point).

It's certainly not exclusive to Dubai. I'm in a UK horse/pony rescue group and people abandon horses at the roadside a lot. They are often sick and owners don't want to be liable. Just yesterday a mother and foal were discovered drowning in a mud bath of a field, they'd been stuck for several days and the mother was already dead but the foal had to be PTS as he couldn't be saved.
I've also volunteered with local animal rescue shelters and we got a lot of phone calls saying they would drown their cat/dog if we didn't take them. Animal abuse in the UK is rife, but I'll give those in war zones a bit of slack.

Some people are just positively gloating abou UAE being hit. Sorry, Dubai. No one gives a crap about the rest it seems 🙈
There was a short thread making fun of scammers hitting UAE with updated scam.
So hilarious innit...

Utterly appalling.

There was also a thread where posters said they'd prioritise their dog in a crisis over their DC in a crisis. One even said she loved her dog more than her adult DC.