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About two hotels in five cap dogs by weight, usually at 44 pounds. Who sets the limit, what the research says about the reasons, and how to find a hotel that will take your big dog.
Forty acres of Rocky Mountain meadow, a bar that takes your dog, and a lawn where the golden retrievers of Aspen gather for Yappy Hour.
A spa hotel on Florida's Treasure Coast where the Pet Experience Director is a golden retriever, dinner comes on china, and your dog stays free.
The number one dog friendly hotel on earth for two years running, where Wednesday night belongs to the dogs, dinner arrives under a cloche, and the concierge answers to the name Rocco.
A guide to the world's top thirty-two best hotel dog food menus, from fine dining to organic gourmet dishes and everyday staples, the founder of Roch takes a look at some of his favourite hotel canine menus from around the world.
No Manhattan hotel has a real garden, so this one on Columbus Circle borrows the best in the world. A bed by the window, a concierge who knows the park, and eight hundred acres across the road.
A grand old hotel on the bluffs above the Pacific, with a garden for your dog, a seat for them at the restaurant, and a pet fee that helps rescue dogs find homes.
In the Italian Dolomites, a timber chalet where your dog gets a bed, a seat at dinner in the Bistrot, and a place on the hotel's own guided hikes.
A Waikiki hotel where any dog of any size stays free, the bar and the restaurant are open to them, and a French bulldog called Jack receives guests by the pool on Tuesdays.
California now requires landlords to hand over their written pet policy before taking an application fee. What the new law gives dog owners who rent, what it leaves alone, and what to do before April 2027.
On a coast that weighs your dog at the door, an oceanfront resort on Collins Avenue with no weight limit, a kitchen that cooks for dogs, and a sunrise beach where the big ones run free.
Toronto Dog Moms joins the Let Dogs In campaign, bringing one of Canada's most engaged dog owner communities to the fight for open taproom doors.
Marketers know their customers say dog. The search data says dog. Common sense says dog. Yet they cannot bring themselves to write it, reaching instead for fur babies and furry friends.
Costed honestly, the hotel dog menu is one of the most profitable plates a hotel kitchen sells. How hotels turn dog food into a high margin revenue line, and why the guest who orders it cannot spend anywhere else.
Almost everything that happens to your dog is shaped by a standard, and almost none of us have read a single line of any of them. Some are law. Some are real accreditation. Some are a badge printed on a Tuesday. Here is how to tell them apart, and where to read all fifty-eight.
Michael Schneider flies a turboprop into the places the trucks can no longer reach. When a hurricane or a wildfire tears through a region and the roads are gone, the local airport is one of the first to reopen, and that is Michael's cue. He has rescued more than seven thousand animals.
Britain did not set out to be dog friendly. It simply never occurred to us to be anything else, and we have finally counted what that looks like.
If you have ever travelled across Canada with a dog, you will know the strange feeling of being turned away at a door for a reason nobody can quite explain. In British Columbia that feeling has a particularly odd shape.
A national airline now asks for proof that a service dog is fit to fly, instead of taking it on trust. A small programme with a very big idea underneath it.
Across Canada a dog can ride the bus, go into shops and sit on the patio, but is turned away at the door of a bar with no kitchen. The Roch Society's new campaign asks the question the rule has never answered, what exactly is the risk?
When Cindy James tells you she makes dog beer, your first instinct is to laugh. Then she explains what it is and you stop laughing and start paying attention.
Roch Dog surveyed 120 housekeepers across hotels of varying quality and star rating as part of our research into pet fee structures across more than 3,000 hotels in 50+ countries. The question we asked them was simple, does a dog staying in the room create significantly more cleaning work?
Using a label that misleads one group while excluding another is a bad marketing habit that nobody bothered to think about. Hotels like to call themselves "pet friendly," but which pets? Nobody really knows.
Welcome to an interesting journey into the world of Good Boy Goodies, and how Keicha Danzie built her brand into 200 stores across 26 states.
