Helping Hotels Welcome Our Dogs

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212 – April, 2026

By Sandy Weaver

If you’re on your club’s show committee, you know hotels understand that allowing dogs is good for business–and believe that allowing dogs is potentially bad for their properties. They can be balky about how many dogs per room and the size of dogs they’ll allow, and it can be financially injurious to your exhibitors with those rising non-refundable deposits.

Those who show dogs know that it’s way more fun to stay in a hotel that not only allows dogs, but also welcomes them. Here’s how you and your dog-showing travel buddies can help more hotels not just tolerate show dogs but welcome them. (And if you’re on the show committee, read this all the way to the end–there’s something here just for you!)

1. Be a great guest. This should go without saying, and yet so many people treat hotel rooms and properties far worse than they’d treat their own homes. Being a great guest means bringing sheets or blankets to cover the hotel furniture that your dog will be allowed on, not using hotel towels, the sink, or the tub to wash your dogs, and putting plastic sheets under your crates in case of spills or accidents. You can use tablecloths from the Dollar Store. They work great and can either be folded for reuse or tossed when you’re packing for home.

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212 – April, 2026

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