Yesterday was the 143rd birth anniversary of Gat Andres Bonifacio, a national hero. Because this country of ours love long weekends, the president declared that this national holiday be celebrated, or moved a day later to add another free day to pre-Christmas shopping commemorate the heroic acts of the Supremo. Anyway, coupled with this holiday, was the onslaught of not-so-heavy rains brought about by the super typhoon Reming (international code name: Durian), there are four glorious days of vacation. Thus, I come to the title of this entry, Pet Village.

Pet Village is located at the Tiendesitas. These cluster of stores have been there for more than a year or maybe more, I think but we haven’t been there. Until today. My mother-in-law decided she would have her pet Maltese groomed there. So we all trooped there. All fourteen humans plus two dogs.

In the Pet Village, one can find all sorts of stuff related to pets, but with emphasis on dogs, still with more emphasis on toy dogs. The Maltese we brought there was brought to one of the beauty saloons for dogs. She was groomed for Php500.00 (US$10). In the Pet Village, one can avail of the services there like pet spa, parlors and stores selling all sorts of things you think your pets might need like pet tents, pet clothes, hair/fur clips and ribbons, leash and collars, pillows, bags for small dogs, cages of all shapes and sizes and everything else that would make one’s pet fashionable.

This is a small-medium kind of business about to grow big: pet grooming and accessories. People are making their pets as a part of their get-up. Or should I say, people are making their dogs as part of their accessories. They think its hip because celebrities do it. They think it shows that they have money to throw, buying expensive unnecessary things for their pooches. To read about pooches and their celebrity humans, click here and here.

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