Early in our relationship, my husband and I used to find ourselves driving across country fairly regularly. There are a couple of reasons for this, none of which are interesting enough to go into here. Suffice it to say, that we’d load ourselves up in the car and we usually took our HUGE, over 100 pound, Doberman with us. We usually made these trips when our kids were visiting relatives in another state.
So off we’d go from one state to another to take care of some business or the other with our Doberman in tow. He was a pretty good traveler as long as he could come up between the front seats periodically and put his head in my husband’s lap. For the most part, all of the dogs we have ignore me completely.
More than once we found ourselves needing to stop for the night and not being able to find a place we could put the dog for the night. Many hotels are not at all interested in letting you bring your dog into the room with you. In fact, as we discovered, most didn’t like it at all. I should be embarrassed to admit this, but it was a long time ago so I will anyway. We found out that if we found a hotel/motel that had the room entrances from the outside and if we got a room towards the end of the line of rooms, we could slip the dog into the room unnoticed. We did actually do that on more than one occasion. It worked kinda okay as long as he stayed quiet, but with all the unfamiliar surroundings and noises usually weren’t very conducive to him relaxing and resting easy for the night. He always took his job of protecting us very seriously and this was a situation that called for him to be alert.
Needless to say, these late night cloak and dagger adventures of slipping a 120 pound Doberman into a motel room could have been avoided if only we’d known then to plan ahead and find a Pet Friendly Hotels. But then, we didn’t use the internet then to get information like that.
