Hotel for dogs

Massages, aromatherapy scents and individual chalets and beds — it’s all in a day’s work at Nanci Creedon’s Doggie Day Care Centre. Tommy Barker takes his labrador off for a day’s pampering at the canine creche.

WHEN it came to professional assignments, this one had my name written all over it. Reporter needed for under-cover, or under-fur, feature? Call on a Barker for a dogged, flea-on-the-wall documentary.

Weekend’s commissioning editor Vickie Maye wasn’t being facetious in doling out the task to spend time at a dog creche. She knows this hack is a dog owner (two, currently), who could offer up a lucky mutt for a day of extra-attentive care.