There are dog spas everywhere where I live. New ones still opening every year. I used to laugh, but no more.
A wise man once told me that if he were to open a business today, it would have something to do with either kids or dogs. They are the only things consumers will go to the hip for - even in a bad economy.
I am looking at an adoptable dog right now whose family had to relinquish him because of the foreclosure of their home. There is another family that has first right of refusal.