I hear ya. I stayed a hotel recently and, while I didn’t have my dogs with me, I asked and they said the pet fee was $100 per dog per night. Yikes! That is not “dog friendly” in my book.

I remember when I fist learned of Red Roof Inn at BlogPaws. I was super excited. Unfortunately, there are very few near me and most of them are right by airports.

I’m not sure if she still has dogs or not, she did at one time. She is legally blind and so I’m sure she didn’t go check it out herself you know?

It would help if she was as anal about her dog as I am. 🙂

I hope your next adventure goes more smoothly!

Wags to all,

Your pal Snoopy 🙂

xoxo,

Jules of Canines & Couture

Is your sister a dog owner herself? I ask because my friend just went through a situation where her well-meaning friend said the dogs could come on a trip they were taking together. My friend ended up having to make last-minute dog sitter plans (my poor hubby got them while I was away for this fun weekend with my girlfriend!) because the requirements at the “dog-friendly” places would not work for my friend’s dogs. Her friend was not a dog owner herself so didn’t think about some of the things a dog owner would.

It wasn’t because I gave it thought but I am fortunate to have very short-haired dogs. They can go much further in the heat that our long-haired Dachshund pals can.

Thanks, glad you like it! I see you have made some changes to your blog too. I really admire/covet the soft and pretty designs like yours, MyLifeInBlogYears, NewfAndHound, etc. but it’s not very fitting for our niche. Our feel is more “shocking” and aggressive go-getter than pretty 🙂 Maybe my next blog…… 🙂

The restaurant asked us if they were service animals. I couldn’t say yes. Besides the fact they it’s obvious that 4 busy-bodies are not, I wouldn’t lie for my own gain and make a bad name, or harder for, legitimate service dogs out there.

Sleep outside at night?? I have never heard of that. I hope they meant in a kennel (that they provided) at least but that is crazy. Chester and Gretel would go nuts because they always sleep with me.

I would live to own an RV. My hubby and I even talked about getting one to live in instead of buying a house at one time. Actually, we wanted a fancy toy hauler so he could still have his man cave/garage 🙂 That would require a big truck to tow though. The good thing would be that we could take our own dog-friendly hotel with us when we traveled like you do.

Yeah…we ended up loading the dogs into the car and hitting the McDonald’s drive thru 🙂 I am wheat free so I couldn’t eat at a lot of the other places around…..like the somewhat healthier Subway. I knew there was stuff there that I could safely eat. I DO like McDonald’d, don’t get me wrong, I would have preferred to eat somewhere less crappy though 🙂

I use Go Pet Friendly when I can too but they don’t cover everywhere (It would be really hard to do so). Zillah is a really small town and not your typical travel destination….unless you are a wine freak 🙂

We won’t be taking the dogs and I can guarantee we won’t be staying at the hotel.

I don’ travel much anymore where Chester and Gretel can’t go with me. There are exceptions of course. A cabin stay in Big Bear sounds nice 🙂

That would certainly be an annoyance! I am glad all of your travels have gone pretty smoothly. Ours have to for the most part. Perhaps that is why I got complacent here.

I suspect that most of these areas are not built by responsible dog owners :). I wonder if that could be a job…..a dog friendly consultant for hotels and places with pet areas. Someone could come in and advise them on what pet parents look for. That would take a significant cost/effort though and a lot of these places are only “dog-fiendly-washing” to entice customers.

We’re going camping in a couple of weeks with some people and dogs from our Adventureweiner Club. The campground says it’s dog friendly (as most are here in Washington) but I still called ahead…because maybe they didn’t mean for 15 dachshund! Ha, ha.

I am glad you haven’t run into issues. It’s always good to be prepared just in case though.

Yes, I am sure that large dogs come with their own set of issues we can’t even imagine. I wish there was some standardization for all this stuff though….like maybe you need to meet a set of requirements to get the “dog-friendly” seal of approval. It’s complicated with restaurants though because some “comply” by flying under the radar of health codes…so they can’t exactly broadcast to the world that they let dogs in.

That is the truth. I got so caught up in the excitement I forgot to do my own homework (which I usually do). I am pretty adept at going with the flow thankfully 🙂