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Cat Cafe Studio: Located in
Mumbai, Mriidu Khosla and
Jason Moss’s Cat Cafe Studio
provides shelter to more than
30 stray felines and offers cat
lovers and enthusiasts the
purrfect opportunity to spend
some quality time with them.
The cafe has a dedicated art
room and regularly hosts
music performances, fl ea
markets, adoption camps
and retails food products and
merchandise.
resort extends pet boarding,
day care and grooming
services for pets. Owners can
also enrol their furry friends
for obedience training and
recreational pursuits. The
resort has a certifi cation by
the Kennel Club of India and
IIPTF Best Pet Resort 2014
award under its belt.
Leaping Windows Café: Leaping
Windows Cafe, the brainchild of
Bidisha Basu, offers pet owners
the chance to pick up comics and
graphic novels while their furry
friends frolic around and socialise in
their spacious outdoor area.
Puppychino Cafe and Spa: Mallika
and Nayani Tandon’s venture is the
capital’s fi rst pet friendly cafe that
also provides boarding facilities
and spa amenities, retails pet
merchandise and organises adoption
drives in collaboration with NGOs.
Furball Story: Animesh Katiyar,
Arushi Dixit and Kunal Daral’s
startup holds pet therapy sessions
for companies like MakeMyTrip
and Nagarro. They have also come
up with a dog cafe in Gurugram to
provide pet therapy along with dog
training and dog crèche facilities.
PET FASHION
The sheer number of Indian festivals,
the big fat Indian wedding culture
and the rising trend for humanisation
of pets has fuelled the proliferation of
pet couture niche.
Canes
Venatici:
Arpan
Joshi’s
‘Canes Venatici,’ a namesake of the
constellation, enjoys the distinction
of being the fi rst organised brand
for pet apparels in India. This Delhi
based label designs fashionable
western clothing and adorable Indian
wear for pets.
Dog-o-bow: Founded by Nimisha
Dixit ‘Dog-o-bow’ is a Hyderabad
based luxury pet label that creates
customised accessories and clothing
for dogs of all shapes and sizes.
Critterati: Touted as the fi rst
pet exclusive hotel in South
Asia, Critterati in Gurugram
brings the notion of pet hospitality
to Indian shores. Deepak Chawla
and his wife, Jaanwi stumbled
upon the idea for a luxury dog hotel
after identifying a gap in premium
pet boarding sector in the market.
Materials like velvet and rubber
have been used extensively in the
furniture to ensure a royal experience
for canine guests. The high-end hotel
provides television, spa, swimming
pool, 24-hour webcam and cafe
facilities for humans and pets.
Dogue Couture: ‘Dogue Couture’ is a
Delhi based pet fashion brand that
effortlessly blends comfort with
style to create stylish and elegant
ensembles that are retailed from
Amazon and Flipkart.
PET BOARDING
Posh pet boarding is rapidly gaining
prevalence in the pet industry as pet
parents do not mind shelling out the
extra money to make sure their pets
enjoy luxurious pampering while
they are away on leisure or business
trips.
The Peppy Paws: Located on the
outskirts of Pune, The Peppy Paws
is the brainchild of Priya Poduval.
Founded in 2010, the high end pet
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