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Two of Your Traveling with Your Pet? What's the Proper Pet Etiquette?
Do you and your sweetie share
another love you don't want to leave home without? More and more pet owners
are traveling with their pets these days and you'll find more pet-friendly
hotels than ever.
BringYourPet.com offers special pet etiquette tips--ones that recognize
the needs of hoteliers as well as loving pet owners.
"Yes, we have noticed a substantial increase in the number of travelers
with pets in the past year," stated Pamela Wolff, Regional Director
of the Vista Host Hotels. "And we expect to see this upward trend
continue."
Although most traveling pets are very well-behaved, pet owners still need
to be mindful of both the hotel staff and other guests when traveling
with their furry friends.
After conferring with several
hotel managers, Pamela Wolf assisted BringYourPet.com
in compiling a list of pet etiquette tips.
 First,
always clean up after your pet companion. No one wants to accidentally
step in Fido's surprise!
- Second, keep your pet
on a leash at all times when you are in the public areas. Although
you know Fido couldn't hurt a fly, others do not.
- Third, remember to crate
your pets when they are left alone in the hotel room. If a hotel
staff member were to come into your room to clean it and Fido was on
the loose, disaster could ensue.
- Fourth, try to keep
pets out of the breakfast area; after all, that sausage patty
is just too tempting for some to resist!
- And fifth, understand that,
although hotels love to welcome their four-legged guests, they usually
have to charge a pet fee because it takes more time and different
products to clean a room after they have had a pet guest.
More information about proper
traveling pet etiquette can be found at www.bringyourpet.com/etiquette.htm
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Pamela Wolff also added that the number one thing to avoid doing at a
hotel when you are with your pet is "not telling the hotel that there
is a pet in the room. For the health and safety of other guests and our
staff, it is essential that we know there is a pet in a guest room."
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