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Rice Business Report
April 2020
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Luxury pup resort takes in shelter dogs during coronavirus emergency
With coronavirus forcing the cancellation of everyone’s plans, Mount Pleasant Avenue lost almost 100
percent of its business.
Author: Janelle Bludau
Published: 7:53 PM CDT March 27, 2020
Updated: 7:59 PM CDT March 27, 2020
LEAGUE CITY, Texas — If you’re a struggling pet owner, the Houston SPCA wants you to know they're
there to help, hoping to do anything they can to keep pets inside people’s homes.
Others are also trying to help, like one League City dog hotel.
On Thursday, Baby, a pitbull pup who has spent the past year waiting to find love at a Dickinson animal
shelter, wined and dined, and she’s feelin’ fine.
“Pay-per-view movies, massages," said Thuy and Judd Gottlieb, founders of Mount Pleasant Avenue
Premiere Canine Villas and Spa. “The love all of our people are giving these kids is amazing, and you can
see the dogs are responding to it. They’re happy, they’ve totally changed.”
Mount Pleasant Avenue is a premier pup resort. Normally during Spring Break, they’d be fully booked.
But with coronavirus forcing the cancellation of everyone’s plans, they’ve lost almost all of their busi-
ness.
But the spa is trying to make the best of it.
“If we’re going to go down anyways, we’re going to go down and try to help as many kids along the way
as we can," Judd said
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