Previous Next "Desert" Defined The "desert", to which the club refers, is geographically located in the low desert of southern California, also known as the Coachella Valley and usually referenced as Palm Springs/Palm Desert/Indio. Club "Whelping" ​​​​In 2003, two friends, Meg Doolittle and Donna Jiaras, regularly walked their standard poodles, Jackie and Cookie, down El Paseo in Palm Desert,