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Canines
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Canines well catered for at Alice
Springs
Government grant funds doggy daycare centre
By Dennis Amor
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ALICE Springs' Heritage Caravan Park has scooped a $9500 government
grant ... to build a "doggy daycare centre" so canine-owning guests can go
sightseeing.
Work is well underway on the novel $20-a-day facility which should be open
at the Heritage Caravan Park in mid-November.
The park was one of several tourism businesses which successfully applied
for funding from the $4.75 million Tourism Infrastructure Development
Fund.
"We are one of the most pet-friendly parks around," manager Mark Newman
told Caravanning News.
"But with all the national parks around here, there are many places you
can't take pets.
"Some of our guests do not want to leave them tied up all day so we
decided to build this doggy daycare centre to make things easier for
them."
Mr Newman said the canine guests were provided with individual
accommodation complete with shade and artificial turf.
Since buying the park in 2010, the Newman family has continually strived
to make it more accommodating for pets by adding extra facilities.
These have included a dog wash, large off-leash area and upgrading some
accommodation with small pet yards.
Mr Newman said the park wanted to cater for the growing number of people
travelling with pets and there had already been "fantastic feedback"
on the doggy daycare centre concept.
"We will do four or five checks on the animals every day and owners will
have their own key so they don't have to rush back at a certain time to
collect their pets," he explained.
The canines would be fed at whatever time their owners wanted and this was
included in the price.
Though no cats will be allowed in the new centre, it was possible they
could be looked after in the park's office, Mr Newman added.
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