Life for Ella includes the joy of being pampered virtually all the time.

Almost every day, the yellow Labrador retriever sleeps in a bed with her owners — the Baliscianos of Camarillo. She gets her nails filed almost every month, and she regularly is taken out to socialize with her dog friends.

By next summer, Ella may also be catered to at the Flying High Pet Resort.

The owners of the proposed Camarillo kennel have plans for upscale "theme suites" where dogs can watch flat-screen color TVs, sleep on beds and experience other luxuries. And cats will get comfy in "condos" — all in an effort to help Fidos and Felixes feel at home away from home.

"It's occupied every waking moment for us," Judy Arnold, a Camarillo resident, said regarding her efforts to help create the facility with her business partner, Dawn Lopez. "For a year it's been a very big dream."

The Camarillo Planning Commission voted 5-0 last week to approve a conditional-use permit for the facility.

Arnold, owner of Camarillo-based pet business Judy's Paw Spa, and Lopez, her manager, plan to construct a 5,190-square-foot building at the southwest corner of Aviation Drive and Convair Street on about 1.6 acres at the Camarillo Airport.

Lopez and Arnold said they believe their facility will be unique in the county because it will be specially built to take care of pets. Kennel facilities in the county, they said, also don't provide luxury or the same scale of services they plan to give.

Their business will provide day care, grooming and overnight boarding for dogs and cats. They expect it to be equipped with 30 to 40 regular kennels, three luxury suites for dogs, 10 "cat condos" and a swimming pool possibly shaped like a dog bone. The cat condos will be about 6 feet high and have two or three floors with carpeting and litter boxes. Cats will not interact with dogs in the facility.

For dogs, the luxury suites will have the TVs, a decorative theme — including Hawaiian and Mexican Riviera decor — and a bed about the size of a child's bed, according to Arnold and Lopez.

Regular kennels could cost $25 or $30 a night, while luxury suites could be $35 or $45 a night, Lopez said.

The suites would measure 5 feet wide by roughly 8 to 10 feet long.

The luxuries and services are aimed at giving owners comfort in placing their pets in a safe environment, the business partners said.

"These dogs are children," Arnold said. "They are members of my family and the people that bring their dogs to us feel the same way. That's why we really feel the need to do this."

Officials at a half-dozen area cat and dog kennel facilities said they have not heard of a local facility quite like the one proposed.

Regarding dog luxury suites, "we want to do that so bad," said Pui Maliwan, assistant manager at the Grand Feline Resort, an Ojai business built to give day and night care for cats, adding she likes the idea for the proposed business. "It would be nice."

The kennel-facility managers and owners interviewed said they have heard of these types of businesses outside the county.

The Inglis Pet Hotel in Oxnard has one dog suite and used to have "cat condos" but discontinued them because of low demand, manager Richard Cabral said.

Deena Case-Pall, who has a doctorate in psychology and is a companion-animal behavior consultant, said owners feel guilty when they leave their pets and want them to stay in nice places. But the first thing that matters for owners is how animals are treated and taken care of, she said.

Bruce Richardson, a spokesman for PetSmart PetsHotels, gave a glimpse of how popular pet hotels have become in recent years. At the company's stores in the U.S., they have grown from a handful about three years ago to about 70 today, with none in Ventura County.

Arnold and Lopez face obstacles, though. They may have to bury power lines because of a city ordinance and may need to place a wall around their business to reduce noise and contain animals.

The facility could cost $1 million to build, but the other requirements could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars more.

The two are seeking to have the power-line requirement waived, and the wall requirement changed to allow a fence, which would cost less.