Pets

[Morticia]

Guest - I'm on your website and I see you no longer take pets. I never travel without my (animal, not a dog).
Me - Correct, we don't take pets.
Guest - But I'm all alone in the world and I never travel without...
Me - Try this hotel.
Is it a full moon? This and the guest who wants to check in at 5 AM and the loony wedding people.

 

[user 26]

i think you need to remove the part about if you've stayed before with your pet to call ... otherwise you'll get calls hoping to convince you that their (other) should be an exception. what kind of animal did they want to bring?

 

[Morticia]

i think you need to remove the part about if you've stayed before with your pet to call ... otherwise you'll get calls hoping to convince you that their (other) should be an exception. what kind of animal did they want to bring?.

I suppose it's time to do that. Most of the repeats know they can bring their dogs. We've been off the pet friendly sites for 2 years now.
Did have another call saying they read that, BUT a review showed we DO take pets. (So there!)
Yeesh.

 

[melissag]

I hope you don't mind if I give a bit of advice regarding pets. My last hotel accepted them. They are currently in the process of tearing out all the carpets and putting down laminate due to the damage the pets do to a room. If you have not been accepting pets for two years, perhaps it is time to no longer accept any pets so you can protect your hotel from the damage they cause. Just a thought.

 

[Morticia]

I hope you don't mind if I give a bit of advice regarding pets. My last hotel accepted them. They are currently in the process of tearing out all the carpets and putting down laminate due to the damage the pets do to a room. If you have not been accepting pets for two years, perhaps it is time to no longer accept any pets so you can protect your hotel from the damage they cause. Just a thought..

We take heritage pets. They've been coming here for years so we know them and the kind of owners they have. One room only.

 

[undersea]

I hope you don't mind if I give a bit of advice regarding pets. My last hotel accepted them. They are currently in the process of tearing out all the carpets and putting down laminate due to the damage the pets do to a room. If you have not been accepting pets for two years, perhaps it is time to no longer accept any pets so you can protect your hotel from the damage they cause. Just a thought..

We take heritage pets. They've been coming here for years so we know them and the kind of owners they have. One room only.
.

I was thinking of having a pet friendly room, but not sure how to keep their pets out of the rest of the building.
(Was hoping to have 1-2 rooms also "hypoallergenic" - but pets wandering the building kind of defeats the purpose.)
Do you have success with just "one room", or do they often try to bring the pet everywhere?
I am allergic to cats and dogs, so am somewhat ambivalent on this. But, it is also important to attract a wider audience.

 

[EmptyNest]

I hope you don't mind if I give a bit of advice regarding pets. My last hotel accepted them. They are currently in the process of tearing out all the carpets and putting down laminate due to the damage the pets do to a room. If you have not been accepting pets for two years, perhaps it is time to no longer accept any pets so you can protect your hotel from the damage they cause. Just a thought..

We take heritage pets. They've been coming here for years so we know them and the kind of owners they have. One room only.
.

I was thinking of having a pet friendly room, but not sure how to keep their pets out of the rest of the building.
(Was hoping to have 1-2 rooms also "hypoallergenic" - but pets wandering the building kind of defeats the purpose.)
Do you have success with just "one room", or do they often try to bring the pet everywhere?
I am allergic to cats and dogs, so am somewhat ambivalent on this. But, it is also important to attract a wider audience.
.

If you are allergic, then you have a good excuse not to accept pets. Why put yourself through that? Unless you have a separate cottage where pets could go and you can get someone else to clean it for you..then you are good.

 

[Morticia]

I hope you don't mind if I give a bit of advice regarding pets. My last hotel accepted them. They are currently in the process of tearing out all the carpets and putting down laminate due to the damage the pets do to a room. If you have not been accepting pets for two years, perhaps it is time to no longer accept any pets so you can protect your hotel from the damage they cause. Just a thought..

We take heritage pets. They've been coming here for years so we know them and the kind of owners they have. One room only.
.

I was thinking of having a pet friendly room, but not sure how to keep their pets out of the rest of the building.
(Was hoping to have 1-2 rooms also "hypoallergenic" - but pets wandering the building kind of defeats the purpose.)
Do you have success with just "one room", or do they often try to bring the pet everywhere?
I am allergic to cats and dogs, so am somewhat ambivalent on this. But, it is also important to attract a wider audience.
.

You can have one room, we did. It had a separate entrance and that's how we kept the dogs out of the main inn.
If you're cleaning the rooms, wear a mask to cut down on your allergic distress.
There's a huge market for pet friendly. One inn here in town gets all of them since we stopped. I send 2-3 callers/week to that place.

 

[Lee2014]

I hope you don't mind if I give a bit of advice regarding pets. My last hotel accepted them. They are currently in the process of tearing out all the carpets and putting down laminate due to the damage the pets do to a room. If you have not been accepting pets for two years, perhaps it is time to no longer accept any pets so you can protect your hotel from the damage they cause. Just a thought..

We take heritage pets. They've been coming here for years so we know them and the kind of owners they have. One room only.
.

I was thinking of having a pet friendly room, but not sure how to keep their pets out of the rest of the building.
(Was hoping to have 1-2 rooms also "hypoallergenic" - but pets wandering the building kind of defeats the purpose.)
Do you have success with just "one room", or do they often try to bring the pet everywhere?
I am allergic to cats and dogs, so am somewhat ambivalent on this. But, it is also important to attract a wider audience.
.

If you are allergic, then you have a good excuse not to accept pets. Why put yourself through that? Unless you have a separate cottage where pets could go and you can get someone else to clean it for you..then you are good.
.

If you are allergic, then you have a good excuse not to accept pets. Why put yourself through that? Unless you have a separate cottage where pets could go and you can get someone else to clean it for you..then you are good.

We do not accept pets so that we can be available for those who are allergic to animals. You can't please everyone.... But we still have pet owners here regularly. We oh and ah over their photos of their beloved pets since we are all dog lovers...but they just can't stay here.

 

[JBloggs]

If I had my choice and built from scratch I would have an all pet friendly property. But having one or two rooms with poodle pocket pets or whatever they are called that don't allow them to be dogs and interact with other dogs just makes me mad. When we go to parks those people pull their dogs away from all the other dogs, and if I had people like that I would have to toss them out on their tails!
We took our dog to a dog friendly B&B in NC and it was way cool. They had a fenced dog area, and treats and a special bed for them in the room, she was living like a queen. Oddly enough neighborhood dogs came over and brought sticks to play with and a tennis ball, so I spent time playing fetch with all of them. They were like the greeting committee and our dog loved it (although they were not part of the B&B, but knew where the action was). I guess it was the place to be!

 

[Copperhead]

If I had my choice and built from scratch I would have an all pet friendly property. But having one or two rooms with poodle pocket pets or whatever they are called that don't allow them to be dogs and interact with other dogs just makes me mad. When we go to parks those people pull their dogs away from all the other dogs, and if I had people like that I would have to toss them out on their tails!
We took our dog to a dog friendly B&B in NC and it was way cool. They had a fenced dog area, and treats and a special bed for them in the room, she was living like a queen. Oddly enough neighborhood dogs came over and brought sticks to play with and a tennis ball, so I spent time playing fetch with all of them. They were like the greeting committee and our dog loved it (although they were not part of the B&B, but knew where the action was). I guess it was the place to be!.

We took our dog to a dog friendly B&B in NC and it was way cool. They had a fenced dog area, and treats and a special bed for them in the room, she was living like a queen. Oddly enough neighborhood dogs came over and brought sticks to play with and a tennis ball, so I spent time playing fetch with all of them. They were like the greeting committee and our dog loved it (although they were not part of the B&B, but knew where the action was). I guess it was the place to be!

Way COOL!

 

[charlie may]

I don't take pets in the house. The funniest one yet was a lady that wanted to bring her dog and I had to tell her "no" as other guests might have allergies. I did tell her that the hotel just down the road had a room for pets and smokers. She wouldn't hear of taking her dog to a room that had had smokers in it.!

 

[TheBeachHouse]

We don't accept pets but we have two very pushy cats who sneak into the inn every chance they get.
We tell them to stay out of the rooms, but they just don't listen.

 

[undersea]

I hope you don't mind if I give a bit of advice regarding pets. My last hotel accepted them. They are currently in the process of tearing out all the carpets and putting down laminate due to the damage the pets do to a room. If you have not been accepting pets for two years, perhaps it is time to no longer accept any pets so you can protect your hotel from the damage they cause. Just a thought..

We take heritage pets. They've been coming here for years so we know them and the kind of owners they have. One room only.
.

I was thinking of having a pet friendly room, but not sure how to keep their pets out of the rest of the building.
(Was hoping to have 1-2 rooms also "hypoallergenic" - but pets wandering the building kind of defeats the purpose.)
Do you have success with just "one room", or do they often try to bring the pet everywhere?
I am allergic to cats and dogs, so am somewhat ambivalent on this. But, it is also important to attract a wider audience.
.

You can have one room, we did. It had a separate entrance and that's how we kept the dogs out of the main inn.
If you're cleaning the rooms, wear a mask to cut down on your allergic distress.
There's a huge market for pet friendly. One inn here in town gets all of them since we stopped. I send 2-3 callers/week to that place.
.

Separate entrance - great, I see how you did that then.
I am not horribly allergic to dogs - but cats, I am off the chart. I think I was a "3" and "4" on the allergist's scratch test years ago for these.
I will not be cleaning much, except as backup. I work and wife will be the primary host for the place. We plan to get cleaning help via something like craigslist. I have had good success getting handymen, movers, tenants and helpers that way.
As we will be new (and fighting the ton of vacation/AirBnB rentals in this area), we need to try and be a bit of all things to fill rooms. It may be nice to say we do not accept smokers or pets or children or this or that or. But when half a new innkeepers rooms are empty and you have a stack of utility/mortgage/tax/food/cable/insurance/maintenance bills on your desk and need to fill the place with furnishings and market, you need to try and be accommodating!
As owner of about 9 apartments, it takes considerably longer to find good tenants when you have a no pets policy. So the contract may say "no pets" and demand a pet deposit, but what usually happens is you look the other way when they bring one in (as they usually do half the time). After all, they see other peoples' dogs and cats, and figure out they will get one too.

 

[Skamokawa]

I hope you don't mind if I give a bit of advice regarding pets. My last hotel accepted them. They are currently in the process of tearing out all the carpets and putting down laminate due to the damage the pets do to a room. If you have not been accepting pets for two years, perhaps it is time to no longer accept any pets so you can protect your hotel from the damage they cause. Just a thought..

We take heritage pets. They've been coming here for years so we know them and the kind of owners they have. One room only.
.

I was thinking of having a pet friendly room, but not sure how to keep their pets out of the rest of the building.
(Was hoping to have 1-2 rooms also "hypoallergenic" - but pets wandering the building kind of defeats the purpose.)
Do you have success with just "one room", or do they often try to bring the pet everywhere?
I am allergic to cats and dogs, so am somewhat ambivalent on this. But, it is also important to attract a wider audience.
.

You can have one room, we did. It had a separate entrance and that's how we kept the dogs out of the main inn.
If you're cleaning the rooms, wear a mask to cut down on your allergic distress.
There's a huge market for pet friendly. One inn here in town gets all of them since we stopped. I send 2-3 callers/week to that place.
.

We welcome pets in our vacation rental apartment. Wood floor is pressure finished extremely durable finish. Machine-washable area rugs except for one larger one we must rent the rug machine for. Washable surfaces. Slip covers for long termers with pets. All furniture easily movable for quick thorough cleaning. And my trusty Hoover that gets ALL the hair.
Helps that there is also a dog friendly park just across the road where they can run off-leash.
So far, knock on wood, all has been good.

 

[undersea]

I hope you don't mind if I give a bit of advice regarding pets. My last hotel accepted them. They are currently in the process of tearing out all the carpets and putting down laminate due to the damage the pets do to a room. If you have not been accepting pets for two years, perhaps it is time to no longer accept any pets so you can protect your hotel from the damage they cause. Just a thought..

We take heritage pets. They've been coming here for years so we know them and the kind of owners they have. One room only.
.

I was thinking of having a pet friendly room, but not sure how to keep their pets out of the rest of the building.
(Was hoping to have 1-2 rooms also "hypoallergenic" - but pets wandering the building kind of defeats the purpose.)
Do you have success with just "one room", or do they often try to bring the pet everywhere?
I am allergic to cats and dogs, so am somewhat ambivalent on this. But, it is also important to attract a wider audience.
.

If you are allergic, then you have a good excuse not to accept pets. Why put yourself through that? Unless you have a separate cottage where pets could go and you can get someone else to clean it for you..then you are good.
.

If you are allergic, then you have a good excuse not to accept pets. Why put yourself through that? Unless you have a separate cottage where pets could go and you can get someone else to clean it for you..then you are good.

We do not accept pets so that we can be available for those who are allergic to animals. You can't please everyone.... But we still have pet owners here regularly. We oh and ah over their photos of their beloved pets since we are all dog lovers...but they just can't stay here.
.

That is part of our strategy. I was planning a pet friendly room and a hypoallergenic room. But I queried Mort on how she keeps pets out of the rest of the place to, as I am unsure how to partition from people who bring pets into common areas, which defeats the purpose.
I think all innkeepers should really consider the hypoallergenic room strategy. No rugs, hypoallergenic bedding/curtains and bathroom products, run a HEPA filter in the room constantly, clean only with proper laundry and cleaning products. Be very diligent on eliminating mites and other potential allergens in the room and the inn.
There are a large number of people with severe allergies and asthma:
-- When tested by allergist years ago, I was allergic to about 40% of their tests. Pollen, grass, mites, cats, dogs, shrimp/crab, etc. etc. I have constant allergic rhinitis. My sinuses (nasal turbinates) have always been a mess, and I had surgery to open up one side because I breathe poorly through my nose - talk about 8 weeks of bleeding...!
-- My father almost died when he had an asthmatic attack while swimming in the ocean, but managed to get back onshore.

 

[JBloggs]

I hope you don't mind if I give a bit of advice regarding pets. My last hotel accepted them. They are currently in the process of tearing out all the carpets and putting down laminate due to the damage the pets do to a room. If you have not been accepting pets for two years, perhaps it is time to no longer accept any pets so you can protect your hotel from the damage they cause. Just a thought..

We take heritage pets. They've been coming here for years so we know them and the kind of owners they have. One room only.
.

I was thinking of having a pet friendly room, but not sure how to keep their pets out of the rest of the building.
(Was hoping to have 1-2 rooms also "hypoallergenic" - but pets wandering the building kind of defeats the purpose.)
Do you have success with just "one room", or do they often try to bring the pet everywhere?
I am allergic to cats and dogs, so am somewhat ambivalent on this. But, it is also important to attract a wider audience.
.

You can have one room, we did. It had a separate entrance and that's how we kept the dogs out of the main inn.
If you're cleaning the rooms, wear a mask to cut down on your allergic distress.
There's a huge market for pet friendly. One inn here in town gets all of them since we stopped. I send 2-3 callers/week to that place.
.

Separate entrance - great, I see how you did that then.
I am not horribly allergic to dogs - but cats, I am off the chart. I think I was a "3" and "4" on the allergist's scratch test years ago for these.
I will not be cleaning much, except as backup. I work and wife will be the primary host for the place. We plan to get cleaning help via something like craigslist. I have had good success getting handymen, movers, tenants and helpers that way.
As we will be new (and fighting the ton of vacation/AirBnB rentals in this area), we need to try and be a bit of all things to fill rooms. It may be nice to say we do not accept smokers or pets or children or this or that or. But when half a new innkeepers rooms are empty and you have a stack of utility/mortgage/tax/food/cable/insurance/maintenance bills on your desk and need to fill the place with furnishings and market, you need to try and be accommodating!
As owner of about 9 apartments, it takes considerably longer to find good tenants when you have a no pets policy. So the contract may say "no pets" and demand a pet deposit, but what usually happens is you look the other way when they bring one in (as they usually do half the time). After all, they see other peoples' dogs and cats, and figure out they will get one too.
.

Separate entrance - great, I see how you did that then.
I am not horribly allergic to dogs - but cats, I am off the chart. I think I was a "3" and "4" on the allergist's scratch test years ago for these.
I will not be cleaning much, except as backup. I work and wife will be the primary host for the place. We plan to get cleaning help via something like craigslist. I have had good success getting handymen, movers, tenants and helpers that way.
As we will be new (and fighting the ton of vacation/AirBnB rentals in this area), we need to try and be a bit of all things to fill rooms. It may be nice to say we do not accept smokers or pets or children or this or that or. But when half a new innkeepers rooms are empty and you have a stack of utility/mortgage/tax/food/cable/insurance/maintenance bills on your desk and need to fill the place with furnishings and market, you need to try and be accommodating!
As owner of about 9 apartments, it takes considerably longer to find good tenants when you have a no pets policy. So the contract may say "no pets" and demand a pet deposit, but what usually happens is you look the other way when they bring one in (as they usually do half the time). After all, they see other peoples' dogs and cats, and figure out they will get one too.

Not just new innkeeper rooms Undersea. This has been a rough April.
You know the whole smoking thing is something I like to handle with care. (I am a non smoker and hate smoking just like any other non smoker - the only time I can be around my mother is when she is smoking outside, and to sit near her reeks out my hair and clothes and I do not like it one bit - but she is my Mom, and smokers are real people too). I can certainly think of more offensive things than smokers who may rent our rooms. I know it is the worst thing on the planet to some B&B's, but you can say no smoking, you can't say no smokers. It is funny how we discuss issues on here and then feel we can strike out smokers.
You may have read (I think I shared here) the guest who hugged my neck after I showed him a place to smoke. He was treated like a pork chop at a Jewish picnic the two nights prior at another B&B.

 

[Lee2014]

I hope you don't mind if I give a bit of advice regarding pets. My last hotel accepted them. They are currently in the process of tearing out all the carpets and putting down laminate due to the damage the pets do to a room. If you have not been accepting pets for two years, perhaps it is time to no longer accept any pets so you can protect your hotel from the damage they cause. Just a thought..

We take heritage pets. They've been coming here for years so we know them and the kind of owners they have. One room only.
.

I was thinking of having a pet friendly room, but not sure how to keep their pets out of the rest of the building.
(Was hoping to have 1-2 rooms also "hypoallergenic" - but pets wandering the building kind of defeats the purpose.)
Do you have success with just "one room", or do they often try to bring the pet everywhere?
I am allergic to cats and dogs, so am somewhat ambivalent on this. But, it is also important to attract a wider audience.
.

If you are allergic, then you have a good excuse not to accept pets. Why put yourself through that? Unless you have a separate cottage where pets could go and you can get someone else to clean it for you..then you are good.
.

If you are allergic, then you have a good excuse not to accept pets. Why put yourself through that? Unless you have a separate cottage where pets could go and you can get someone else to clean it for you..then you are good.

We do not accept pets so that we can be available for those who are allergic to animals. You can't please everyone.... But we still have pet owners here regularly. We oh and ah over their photos of their beloved pets since we are all dog lovers...but they just can't stay here.
.

That is part of our strategy. I was planning a pet friendly room and a hypoallergenic room. But I queried Mort on how she keeps pets out of the rest of the place to, as I am unsure how to partition from people who bring pets into common areas, which defeats the purpose.
I think all innkeepers should really consider the hypoallergenic room strategy. No rugs, hypoallergenic bedding/curtains and bathroom products, run a HEPA filter in the room constantly, clean only with proper laundry and cleaning products. Be very diligent on eliminating mites and other potential allergens in the room and the inn.
There are a large number of people with severe allergies and asthma:
-- When tested by allergist years ago, I was allergic to about 40% of their tests. Pollen, grass, mites, cats, dogs, shrimp/crab, etc. etc. I have constant allergic rhinitis. My sinuses (nasal turbinates) have always been a mess, and I had surgery to open up one side because I breathe poorly through my nose - talk about 8 weeks of bleeding...!
-- My father almost died when he had an asthmatic attack while swimming in the ocean, but managed to get back onshore.
.

We have two entrances for all guests so we don't have that option. But we welcome families with children and the pool was installed with them in mind... You have to figure out what you and your place can handle.

 

[gillumhouse]

I have to get new pillows for the Harris Room now that we have moved beds. It has always been my feather-free room. The pillows on that bed now are down & feather.
As much as we loved our dog, we did not get another because I am too old to be taking a dog for walks in wind, rain, and snow. AND I try to do everything I can to NOT trigger allergies by using all the -free detergents and cleaners. I cannot be all things to all people and do not even try. As Popeye said, "I yam what I yam and that is all that I yam." The long, dry winter is always a killer - and this year was followed by the willing slave corps for several weekends in a row. NOW I can start having guests again.
No pets. The last time I bent that rule the beast that hardly ever touched a floor peed on both rugs in that bathroom, left friggin' dog dishes behind.......... That was IT! (and it was a NOVEMBER so there were no other guests to be bothered. But never again)

 

[Morticia]

I hope you don't mind if I give a bit of advice regarding pets. My last hotel accepted them. They are currently in the process of tearing out all the carpets and putting down laminate due to the damage the pets do to a room. If you have not been accepting pets for two years, perhaps it is time to no longer accept any pets so you can protect your hotel from the damage they cause. Just a thought..

We take heritage pets. They've been coming here for years so we know them and the kind of owners they have. One room only.
.

I was thinking of having a pet friendly room, but not sure how to keep their pets out of the rest of the building.
(Was hoping to have 1-2 rooms also "hypoallergenic" - but pets wandering the building kind of defeats the purpose.)
Do you have success with just "one room", or do they often try to bring the pet everywhere?
I am allergic to cats and dogs, so am somewhat ambivalent on this. But, it is also important to attract a wider audience.
.

If you are allergic, then you have a good excuse not to accept pets. Why put yourself through that? Unless you have a separate cottage where pets could go and you can get someone else to clean it for you..then you are good.
.

If you are allergic, then you have a good excuse not to accept pets. Why put yourself through that? Unless you have a separate cottage where pets could go and you can get someone else to clean it for you..then you are good.

We do not accept pets so that we can be available for those who are allergic to animals. You can't please everyone.... But we still have pet owners here regularly. We oh and ah over their photos of their beloved pets since we are all dog lovers...but they just can't stay here.
.

That is part of our strategy. I was planning a pet friendly room and a hypoallergenic room. But I queried Mort on how she keeps pets out of the rest of the place to, as I am unsure how to partition from people who bring pets into common areas, which defeats the purpose.
I think all innkeepers should really consider the hypoallergenic room strategy. No rugs, hypoallergenic bedding/curtains and bathroom products, run a HEPA filter in the room constantly, clean only with proper laundry and cleaning products. Be very diligent on eliminating mites and other potential allergens in the room and the inn.
There are a large number of people with severe allergies and asthma:
-- When tested by allergist years ago, I was allergic to about 40% of their tests. Pollen, grass, mites, cats, dogs, shrimp/crab, etc. etc. I have constant allergic rhinitis. My sinuses (nasal turbinates) have always been a mess, and I had surgery to open up one side because I breathe poorly through my nose - talk about 8 weeks of bleeding...!
-- My father almost died when he had an asthmatic attack while swimming in the ocean, but managed to get back onshore.
.

We have two entrances for all guests so we don't have that option. But we welcome families with children and the pool was installed with them in mind... You have to figure out what you and your place can handle.
.

We have two entrances for all guests so we don't have that option. But we welcome families with children and the pool was installed with them in mind... You have to figure out what you and your place can handle.

To that end, i have a list of 6-7 items the next owner can do here to make more money.
But they are things I can't handle.