Some excerpts from the article:

>Some people have been scrambling to get out after Iranian missiles struck sites within the United Arab Emirates (UAE) following the bombing of Iran by the United States and Israel.

>Around 14,000 Britons have already contacted the Foreign Office to leave the country and the Government now warns against all but essential travel to the region.

>But while countries have laid on flights to return their stranded nationals, some expats living in the UAE are abandoning their pets over travel restrictions or relocation costs.

And its not only abandonment:

>“Some vets have even confirmed that owners are coming in to euthanise healthy pets because they don’t want to deal with relocation costs or paperwork.

This is not the only country this is occurrin in:

>Louise Hastie, the organisation’s chief executive officer, said: “It’s not just a problem there, it’s happening across Iraq and Ukraine as well … some people just don’t see pets the way we do.

>“Abandoning pets at the border or on the streets, not even leaving them with the vet – there’s really no excuse for it, Dubai is an affluent country.”

Expats fleeing Dubai abandon pets in scramble to leave