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Staff writer at the Roch Society.
Some of Fairmont's grand hotels keep a dog of their own, a canine ambassador who greets arrivals in the lobby and, at several, will take a guest out for a walk. The Queen patted one in Vancouver in 2002, Boston gave one a plaque and a day of her own, and you can still meet the dogs today.
A hotel abroad can say pets are allowed, call itself "pet friendly", or name the dog outright, and the three mean very different stays. Our 20 language study found the same tiers everywhere. Here are the words for each, from French to Japanese, and what a Japanese size band tells you.
The Podenco Ibicenco is Ibiza's own hunting dog, a tall red and white hound that runs down rabbits by scent and sound. Every breed page says it sailed from the pharaohs' Egypt. A 2023 genetic study tested that story, and the island tells a different one.
Researchers in Vienna drove eighteen beagles along the motorway for six weeks, and their stress hormone rose on every trip. Three later studies, all paid for by Mars Petcare, found at best a gradual, partial easing over months. What each measured, and what it means before a long drive.
The films say Hachiko walked his master to Shibuya Station every morning. The University of Tokyo says he did not. The true story of Japan's most famous dog, and the trail from Shibuya to Ueno and Odate.
TripAdvisor published no pet friendly hotel list in 2026, two years after launching one with a pet food sponsor. USA Today's readers did vote, and put a hotel graded C first and the only A+ on the list sixth.
France has no law that keeps dogs out of restaurants. The only rule is a European hygiene regulation about kitchens, so the owner decides, and in a country of nearly ten million dogs the owner usually says yes.
A Kyung Hee University study of 491 dog owners priced every part of a dog friendly hotel. A play area was worth $117 a night and a lounge run by a trained dog specialist $146, while a bed, steps and a welcome basket in the room made the hotel worth less.
A Renaissance villa on the banks of the Arno, fifteen minutes from Florence, where the dog stays free with no weight limit, dines beside you in both restaurants and has a private park to run in.
For two centuries the canons of the Great St Bernard and their dogs brought lost travellers home through the snow. The true story of Barry, the legends the museum in Bern took apart, and where you can still meet the dogs today.
A plain guide for dog owners to microchips, rabies jabs, health certificates and getting home again, in the order they have to be done.
Whether your dog can fly in the cabin, what each airline charges and allows, how safe the hold really is, and how to get your dog ready for the day.
How to tell an emergency from a wait and see, what to do in the first minutes, and how to find a vet in a place you do not know.
What an American dog needs to enter the European Union, the vaccine detail that trips people up, how to get a dog across the Atlantic, and the form you need to come home.
Most dogs that get heatstroke get it on a walk, not in a car. How to judge the heat, plan the day around it, and what to do if your dog overheats.
United takes dogs in the cabin for $150 each way with no weight limit, allows two pets if you buy two seats, and no longer checks pets into the hold. The rules and the destinations it excludes.
Mexico now requires a screwworm inspection certificate for every dog, and the United States requires one to let your dog back in. What to get, when, and from whom.
How much hotels charge for a dog, how many have a weight limit, whether you can leave your dog in the room, and what a deposit really is, from a thousand hotels and hundreds of written policies.
The pet passport, the animal health certificate, the American endorsed certificate and the CDC form are four different things. Here is what each one is, who can get it, and which your dog travels on.
Delta takes small dogs in the cabin for $150 within the United States and $200 abroad, but not to Hawaii or Britain. The rules, the carrier, the limits and how to book.
Where the law lets a dog sit beside you while you eat, where it is patio only, how to find a place that wants you both, and how to be the guest every restaurant hopes for.
What a British dog needs to enter France, the easiest ways across the Channel, which breeds France will not admit, and the tapeworm appointment everyone forgets.
Some holidays are better with a dog and some dogs are happier at home. Two simple tests, one for the trip and one for the dog, and how to leave a dog well when the answer is no.
What the official safety figures say about dogs in the hold, which dogs should never fly that way, which airlines still take them, and how to prepare a dog and its crate.
