From Lassie and Rin Tin Tin to Skip, 101 Dalmatians, and now the two Great Danes who have big parts in the new Mel Gibson film, The Patriot, dogs have always played a key role in movies, and it is only right that they should enjoy the creature comforts that go with film stardom.
So a Los Angeles hotel, Le Montrose Suite in West Hollywood, is offering dogs a chance to enjoy the luxury previously only available to bipeds.
Dogs spending the night with their owners will be able to relax with a "personal pooch massage" at $60 (£40) an hour or "aromatherapy grooming" for $35.
They can also take advantage of the "quadruped community centre" where single dogs will be able to interact.
Organic dog food will be served to help that difficult unwinding process at the end of the day.
And each animal with an owner willing to spend $189 for the night will be entitled to a "keepsake signature bowl and bone".
If the dogs want to explore the area near Sunset Boulevard, seasonal collars - leather in winter, fabric in summer - are available and they will be able to visit the nearby Chateau Marmutt's day-care centre, where "lonely pets can fend off separation anxiety for a few hours".
A hotel spokeswoman explained: "It's furnished with brightly coloured plastic accoutrements: a fire hydrant, a pool, a picnic table - the room is essentially a quadruped community centre."
The inherent threats to stars relaxing had been taken account of, she added.
"Candidates have to be neutered and all of them are carefully screened to weed out bullies."
Dogs who have had star parts in films have stayed at the hotel during their shooting schedules. Frankie, who was in both Armageddon and Mr Magoo, spent the long months of filming relaxing in the hotel.
Dogs in downtown LA must look on enviously; strays there have been rounded up to be "euthanised" in advance of the Democratic party's convention in the city next month, since it was thought that wild packs of feral creatures might alarm out-of-towners.
Le Montrose hotel already prides itself on being "Los Angeles's only luxurious and discreet hotel hideaway for post-cosmetic surgery care".
That service includes private underground entry and transport to and from the doctor's. Presumably, dogs seeking to perk up floppy ears or sagging tums will be offered the same facility.
As it happens, the creatures that are currently wowing Hollywood are the animated hens from the successful film Chicken Run.
As yet there is not a hotel offering them a special deal, but surely some enterprising hotelier might want to guarantee relaxation to any movie hen tired of the film business and of always being considered an easy lay.
