When we took Skeeter with us to Philadelphia and roamed around the Sheraton with her, we didn’t see a lot of people with dogs in the hotel. We heard one dog, a few doors down for us, but I don’t think we ever saw it.
People generally looked surprised to see her in the elevator or wandering around the halls. They would often comment about how unusual that was. One person wanted to pet her because she really missed her own dog while she was traveling for business. Another man had recently lost his dog and really enjoyed getting to pet her for a bit.
It was an interesting thing, to take her along to a pretty nice hotel in a big city. It felt crazy weird and we felt super crazy for doing it.
Flash forward nine months and we’re on our second trip without her and dang, we miss her. Worse yet, this hotel is full of dogs. I’m not kidding you. There must be a dozen different dogs checked in here, and those are just the ones we have seen.
We’re also right across the street from a little park (and O’Henry’s home, but that’s another post entirely) and it seems like everyone in Austin has at least one dog. Totally different from Philly where we rarely saw people walking their dogs.
We’ve had a lot of fun here but we’re ready to go home because WE MISS OUR DOG.
We are officially THOSE weird dog people. Gah.
Do you think I can bring her to BlogHer ’13 in Chicago????
Cool… maybe she should have her own blog, then she’d be eligible, right?
Our hotel is full of dogs but I can’t handle the 2 of them on a trip. They are not as well trained as Skeeter Bess.
I miss my furballs too.
you aren’t weird dog people. you are just dog people! xoxo