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It depends what kind of travel you normally do / plan to do.
- Only a subset of hotels accept pets, and a lot of them try to charge £10/night/dog.
- Dog hair / mud /etc in a rental car will get you charged extra cleaning fees.
- Forget travelling abroad by plane. You can fly out, but AFAIK it is not possible to travel back into the UK with a dog by air. Your options are car (on a ferry / Eurotunnel) or one of the two ferries that take them with foot passengers. Brexit will doubtless make this even more fun.
- Some countries expect or have laws that dogs travel in a crate in cars or on public transport.
- Most beaches (UK and other countries) don't allow dogs during summer, except maybe on the scabbier bits either end.
- A lot of visitor attractions also ban dogs.
Which isn't to say travelling with a dog isn't great, but expect to plan your whole trip around it.
- Only a subset of hotels accept pets, and a lot of them try to charge £10/night/dog.
grams
Newb q:
I want to get a dog. A whippet ideally. But my wife is really hesitant. She's worried about the restrictions dog ownership will put on being able to visit non dog-friendly friends and family and on the location and duration of holidays. I'm not sure these are really that big of a deal. Can anyone relate some experience around these concerns?
Neither of us have owned dogs before although we both love them and have them in the extended family. We live in a decent sized house with lots of steep stairs. We're in a small town on the edge of marshes and woods. We have a small garden that I'm keen to discourage the local cats from shitting in and we have two kids, 2 and 5 (both of whom are mad keen for a pet).
Whippet and learn to adapt?