FAVORITE LINKS

Dog Food/Eagle Pack: http://www.itty-bittydogstore.com/eaglepack.html

Products:
http://www.kuranda.com/main/index.asp

Kansas City Obedience Training Club: http://www.kansascitydogtraining.com/

Friends:
http://www.geocities.com/rodikennel/

http://www.mtnmeadow1.com/

http://www.claircrest.com

Motel/Hotel Room Etiquette

1. Before making reservations, make sure you read all the motel/hotel pet rules and regulations.

2. When calling for reservations, please inform them then that you will have dogs with you in the room.

3. When checking in, again remind them that you have dogs.

4. Be courteous and please be quite if you are checking in your room late at night. Others don’t want to be rudely awaken while you unload.

5. Once in your room, please be kind and not talk so loud that everyone around you can hear you. I for one don’t want to hear about how great your dog is and so on.

6. Same thing applies after a “bad” day at a show. I don’t want to hear every little detail thru the wall about how “bad the judge” was and that your dog is the greatest one at the show and therefore should have won or qualified!

7. Also if one person is out in the yard and the other in the room don’t stand in the door and holler across the parking lot at each other. If you need something, go back to your room instead of shouting for all to hear.

8. If your room has adjoining doors to the room next door, please be kind and NOT park your dog crates right there in front of that door. I don’t want to hear dog crates rattling all night along with water buckets, feed pans and squeaky toys! This drives my dogs nuts as they can’t figure out how to get to the dog under the door. My rule is, take a chair from the room and pile your suitcase and whatever else you can on that chair in front of the adjoining door!

9. Same thing for cramming your crates right up against the hotel wall. I leave about 2 inches between the wall and my crates. I don’t want my dogs disturbing the people in the next room.

10. Another thing, I hate seeing obedience and breed people out in the parking lot or in the halls drilling their dogs over and over again on the same thing. Then you have the nerve to give others dirty looks when we pass by to take our dogs outside!

11. Is there a leash law in the state where you are staying/showing? Either way, I am sick of people who think that their dog is the best obedience dog in the world so they turn it loose at the hotel. In the mean time those of us that know better, keep our dogs on lead or in expens and are fighting to keep them from busting loose to go pursue your dog off lead running free!

12. And PLEASE pick up after your dogs!!

13. My expens are not for public use, neither is my pooper scoop. I have come back to my hotel a few times to find dog crap left in my expens. Someone even had the nerve to rearrange my expens!

14. We are losing several hotels/motels each year due to inconsiderate people who let their dogs hike all over the hotel walls inside and outside. I make my dogs hold it until I can get to the designated area that is OK for them to potty in. Same thing inside a show building, BREED people, don’t let your dogs pee on ring gates!! That looks so bad. Take the poor dogs out before you show them.

15. Another reason we are losing several hotels/motels: Toy dog owners/handlers…do you have to set up expens in the room? Leave potty pads for the maids to pick up? All my dogs regardless of size, coat or breed go OUTSIDE and use an expen.

16. Other pet peeve of mine is….parking. My gosh people, learn to park! Don’t cram your vehicle in a spot just because you need to be close to the door. I for one don’t appreciate door dings on my van. But it never fails rather it be the hotel or show site, there is always people crammed in spots too small and I end up having to put all my stuff down in the middle of the parking lot, back out and then load! Don’t block any vehicle from the side or behind. We may need to load crates or dogs from either side!

17. When you go out to dinner, do you really trust your dog not to bark in the room the entire time you are gone? One year at a show, we were in our room and could hear scratching and barking in the room next door. This went on for several hours. I finally called the front desk and complained. The dog had scratched the door up pretty bad.

People need to be held accountable for what their dogs do at hotels/motels. Don’t be afraid to turn them in to the front desk if their dogs are left in the room and bark for hour’s non stop. If the ones causing the problems start having to take responsibility for their dogs, maybe we will not loose any more good hotels/motels. And maybe they will stop charging us for the dogs!