I took my pooch to the Greater Manchester dog café with an indoor beach and it was pretty stressful
20.08.2022 - 09:59
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It's not often that you see patrons of a restaurant eating sand from a fake beach and sniffing each other's rear ends, but this is business as usual for Alfie's Island Café. Located on a large site in Timperley, the dog-friendly space is the creation of husband-and-wife duo Tony and Tania Golden - former owners of Central Bark Café.
The couple, originally from the United States, have taken what was formerly the Manor Farm and transformed it into a community hub for both humans and their four-legged friends. The pair also work with Starlight Barking Trust to bring strays over from Greece - where there are charities and facilities to care for and rehome dogs - and help them to find the dog’s forever home in the UK.
I’ve always felt a bit sorry for pets when their owner goes off on holiday and they get shipped off to the kennels. Rather sweetly, this café has its own beach and a décor inspired by more tropical climes than south Manchester - complete with deck chairs and parasols for dogs to sit back and enjoy their own staycation.
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So far, so good you might think, but here reader is where I tell you about how it went down when I took our family’s adolescent black lab for a trip to Alfie's. I don’t have children, but I imagine taking a dog to a dog café is similar to how parents feel taking small children to a restaurant - for the love of god, please just sit down, and so on.
I used to work as a waitress and would sometimes lock eyes with sleep-deprived customers, crawling around on the floor, desperately picking up discarded hula hoops and wet wipes that their children had left in their wake - I feared a similar fate
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