Visiting dogs

It really depends on friends/relatives. We have some who would be mortified if we didn’t take her with us to visit/stay but we have some who I would not think of taking her with us.
 
My parents and the in laws love to see our dog arrive. They are about a 5 hour drive away though so they know it's easier for us all to come. She loves going to my parents house especially. Why wouldn't she, the garden is like a mini forest and my dad let's her in the bed😂

Only dogs who she knows and likes are welcome here, my friends dachsund is barred cause she's a bit of a tw@t. I don't know if I'd bring her elsewhere it hasn't really come up yet. I'm really lucky my dog is good with other dogs so I don't want to ruin it by letting an uncivilised dog into her space.
 
Dogs can come to us but owners know it'll be a noisy (harmless) 35kg and 40kg pair to welcome them. Lab doesn't travel well and GSD is still young so we're just gradually taking her places but I wouldn't take either of them to a nice clean tidy house because I know what they'd do. I'd feel so guilty if someone else's house ended up looking like mine because i don't see the dog hair anymore...or mud.
 
Many dogs do come to ours, some come in, some are banished to the kennel with the outside dogs! Rew can be a bit barky at dogs, but tends to ignore bitches (as when Clodagh stayed here, we sat on separate sofas) 😊

Tbh it’s not the other dogs that cause problems, it’s owners not realising what’s acceptable… for instance if you bring your entire dog in, let it cock it’s leg on my curtains and push my castrated dog around in his own home don’t be surprised I’m pretty grumpy!
 
Yes I do we take my dogs to stay with my family and they bring there’s here
I take my dogs into friends houses if they are doggy people and they bring theirs here.
However I take charge of dogs here they know straight away what I won’t tolerate peeing on my curtains , disrespecting Pearl space and chasing or even looking at cats
What’s interesting is the cats know I am disciplining the dogs you can see them watching me.
My brothers dogs chase cats at home they don’t hear .
 
I nearly always take my dogs when I go to my parents (they live in the same village as me and dog and I lived in their house for two years!). He often comes to my sister's though I don't visit as often. He gets on well with her dog, but careful management is necessary for her chickens and cat. He will often stay on his lead and sleeps with me in a closed room.
Dog also comes to friends who live further away. My friends all have cats but we manage to keep everyone in separate rooms. At one friend's with a smaller house, I do do a sweep and ask if I can move any ornaments at tail height to safer places (Monster's tail is lethal in small spaces). He's even been to a friend's parents' holiday home by the sea where he slept in the yard lean-to with his crate open.
Monster comes to restaurants and is getting used to coming with me to riding competitions. His crate is always in the car so that he has somewhere safe to rest. I need to figure it all out again once new puppy is home and bigger.
I have a lot of friends a good four hour drive away, so if Monster couldn't come, I would be visiting less often even though Dad will normally step in to look after the dog if necessary. I would never take my dog to someone's house without checking it's ok with them first.

As for dogs coming here, my sister's fluff-butt is here at the moment. They visit roughly every two weeks. Any other dog is welcome if I'm warned in advance. I didn't appreciate my sister's in laws just turning up with theirs and waking up (afternoon nap, I wasn't feeling well) to find my Monster and sister's Fluff-butt locked inside going mad and sister's in-laws apericube waltzing around my garden relieving itself. Otherwise, I have plenty of space to keep dogs separate if necessary and they don't get on after introductions.
 
We are more than happy for friends and family to bring dogs to us. We always ask whether Purdey is ok to come with us when visiting in return but so far the answer has always been yes (as most have their own anyway)
 
Generally no. Exceptions

My friend who has mine if I go on holiday etc. she has a westie and mine and hers got along v well

My brother in law visited recently and brought his. Wouldn’t normally allow BUT my sister died unexpectedly in august and he’s still in a state so felt bad saying no. Dogs got on so all ok.
 
I always took Cecil to my friends before she emigrated, sometimes Basil would come too but not often.
She had a little dog who was a puppy at the same time as Cec so they knew and played with each other really well whilst we drank coffee! generally though no I don't take them to peoples houses with me. I think he's been to my parents but i generally go there combined with a yard that i work at that's not safe for him to come so again he rarely visits them. I dont think he really likes going to other peoples houses.
I don't mind dogs coming here but only if they are ok with cats because a few have gone at our cats and that's not on!
 
I can relate what not to do if you have a dog and are going visiting.

Rock up to your new partner’s rellies (us) for the first meet up complete with dog from which you are never separated. Rellies did not realise that this person even has a dog, let alone one to which they are joined at the hip. They are first aware of the dog when this strange doodle thing is careering around the garden with their own newly acquired dog 😳.

Then doodle thing nicks resident’s dogs toys (which would not have been left out if we’d known that another dog was coming) and there is a spat. ‘Ho Ho he always pinches other dogs toys, Ho Ho.’ 😡

Guest dog was then (very) grudgingly shut in their car for the rest of the visit. The visit seemed like a very long 2 hours…
 
Always took my dogs when I went to see mum and dad, and they always bought theirs to our house , and also to my aunties (she didn't have a dog) - never a problem, but
have not taken them to other peoples houses.
 
I’ve had people bring their dogs to mine. Generally it’s all been ok.
My step kids brought their dog to stay and insisted it slept in the bedroom with them as that’s where it sleeps at home. It peed on my carpet and they didn’t say. I was mightily unimpressed. However we took my spaniel to theirs to stay overnight and he uncharacteristically had diarrhoea all over their kitchen in the night. So I couldn’t moan.
 
If friends/visitors have dogs that are not going to chase my chickens and cats and like my dogs then they are very welcome and vice versa. I used to have a friend come and stay she used to bring her 4 dogs and I had 4 of my own at that time. They all had a wonderful time together but I have a decent sized house and 6 enclosed acres so space was not a problem.
 
I took them all last time I went to mum's before she moved, but we had to search hard for a suitable safe place to walk them. I wouldn't take them now, her new place is not really big enough and she's carpeted it in this beautiful gold carpet throughout!

I wouldn't allow visiting dogs here, bar my bil's springer who stayed for a fortnight last year, he was no bother. I wouldn't dream of taking my lot to anyone's house, probably not even my bil's, they're too lively and I'd panic about them escaping.
 
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