Good morning all. In follow up of my previous post about the frustrations between setting up a new listing now vs 7 years ago, I have finally gone live with my new studio. I will never reconcile in my head why they only let you do a brief “cliff notes version” of the listing and force you to go live to actually fill in the rest of the important details. I snoozed immediately and took a couple days to visit each and every option twice as they do pre-select a lot of items for you. I have received two bookings and several inquiries as we are entering summer tourist season.
My question is related to being pet friendly as it relates to my particular situation. I have had a private room listed for 7 years. I have dogs on site and have never allowed guests traveling with pets, other than service dogs, due to this reason.
The new studio is beneath my home and has a private entrance. However, the patio area adjacent to the studio is not fenced and is separate from the shared back yard. The gate to access the back yard is right beside the studio entrance. It is a 6 ft privacy fence and they would have no way of knowing if my dogs were in the yard until they actually opened the gate.
One of my pups is a new Frenchton puppy, 6 months old and behaves as you would expect a puppy to behave. I am terrified that someone would open the gate and Kevin would escape and they would be unable to catch him. The other two 11 year old pugs wouldn’t be phased.
Sorry this is so long, the question I have for those that do host pets, are pet friendly whole place listings popular enough that this would be something to consider? I know most pet owners are responsible but I’m more worried about the crowd that travels with a pet because they don’t want to spend the money to board them. And in turn would leave them alone in the yard all day or be careless in closing the gate. Just need some feedback before I pull the trigger on pet friendly. The new place was designed to be pet friendly but I just have a bit of anxiety about actually doing it. Thanks.