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Photo Friday (and reader’s report): Maia on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard

Several Dog Jaunt readers have sent me marvelous reports about their travels, and I’m determined to catch up and post them all. Taking a LIFO approach (and that is the entirety of what I remember from my Accounting class), I bring you today reader Dolce’s notes from her recent Cape Cod vacation with Maia, her Yorkie mix:

We stayed for the first night in Cambridge, at the Meridien. We paid a $150 security deposit but no additional charge for the dog. They did request her to be crated/restrained if left alone in the room, but there was no issue at all. At checkout, the security deposit was refunded upon checking that we did not mess up the room whatsoever. I had set up food & water bowls in the bathroom for easier cleanup (but did not have to clean anything).

Thereafter, we stayed 4 nights in a pet friendly motel in Falmouth, the Seaside Inn. While this is most likely not the best hotel on the Cape, the rooms were clean and bright, and there was no request from the management to crate your pet while leaving her in the room. There is, though, a $15/night pet fee. The motel had a kitchenette with the usual bells and whistles, so for those who want to pack raw food/prepare a doggie dinner on site, it is definitely doable.

The beaches are NOT dog friendly during high season except at night/early morning, but off season, you would be free to roam around with a pet. Parks, boardwalks etc. are totally fine.

One day we took the ferry from Falmouth to Martha’s Vineyard. We were anxious about taking Maia with us, but the ferry people are very dog friendly. When boarding, Maia was even given a treat, and there was a large water bowl in the boarding area for, quote, “our 4-legged passengers”.

We walked a lot on Martha’s Vineyard and I am glad we all had water – for us and for Maia. The only drawback here is that unfortunately there are not that many lunch spots on the island with outdoor seating, so either you need to rush there to ensure space, buy take-out or bring your own. We ended up snacking in a large park by the water, close to the ferry docks.

Maia on Martha's Vineyard

We also went to Provincetown, where there are a couple of outdoor spots for lunch. The food court located in the middle of Commercial Street has outdoor seating where you can take a dog without being frowned at and there is decent human food (including a great lobster salad). I also liked that many parking places in the town had signs advising people NOT to leave their dogs in their cars.

Go, P-town! I hope that more communities start posting signs like these.

Overall, there were lots of people walkings dogs in Provincetown & Falmouth and it is pretty easy to bring your pup over there. We passed a couple of pet shops on the way (from family-owned to chain brands), and a couple of veterinary offices, including a 24/7 emergency vet care, in Buzzard’s Bay and in West Falmouth, which, fortunatelly, we did not have to use!

Thanks so much, Dolce, for sharing your pictures and tips! I so appreciate hearing about your experiences, Dog Jaunt readers, and I so appreciate your willingness to share them with other travelers. If you have pictures of your own to share from this week, please post them on Dog Jaunt’s Facebook page so we can all see them!

Pet relief area at Nashville International Airport (BNA)

Not many airport pet relief areas are so silly that they make me laugh out loud when I find them — the pet relief area at Dallas (Terminal D) was one, and now Nashville is on the list.

On the bright side, the airport’s web site provides detailed instructions to find the pet relief area, and it’s marked on the numerous maps posted in the terminal (though not on the on-line interactive airport map). It’s on the ticketing level, which is, conveniently, on the same level as the concourses (it is, however, on the land side of security — though I have to admit that getting back through security only took about five minutes).

The easiest way to find it is to locate the Frontier ticket counter. If, for some reason, the airline desks have been shuffled between now and the time you arrive, consult the airport maps — there are a bunch of them on the walls, and you can use them to track your progress. Walk to the end of the terminal, and exit the building to the right, through the doors across from the Frontier ticket counter. Once you’re outside, turn left. Here’s what you’ll find, maybe 50 feet from the doors:

Dear heaven, it’s tiny. Poop bags are provided, and a trash can, but that’s it. If your dog doesn’t have the scope she needs, or doesn’t like Astroturf, there is an alternative. Keep walking down the sidewalk that leads away from the terminal. As you can (barely) see in this photo, there are some patches of lawn in the distance. The one you can see best is actually across the airport roadway, and it’s really too dangerous to cross over to it. There is, however, a bit of grass across from it, on this side of the roadway, surrounding a parking lot attendant’s booth.

The guy whose torso you can just see, walking away from me? He’s carrying his Min Pin down to the grass. The most useful patch is under the trees in front of him — the bigger patches of grass you see are actually across the airport roadway.

I looked for alternatives on the other, south, side of the ticketing level, and at both ends of the baggage claim level, and didn’t find any. The grassy patches I found are a bit of a walk (especially when the temperature is in the mid-90s, as it was when Chloe and I were there), but trudging out to them does give your dog a chance to stretch her legs. Be sure, of course, to grab a poop bag from the official pet relief area before you set off.

This post is part of an ongoing series of reviews of airport pet relief areas we’ve visited. To see others, visit Dog Jaunt’s handy guide to airport pet relief areas.

Photo Friday: Kara in Paris

Reader Kristina (who recommended the Found My Animal leash I wrote a blog post about a short while ago) recently returned from a trip to Paris with Kara, her Chinese Crested, and bubbled with joy: “WOW! Paris was so awesome with dogs! They allowed dogs inside the restaurant, and in this particular one Kara was actually up on the couch-seat with us. It was great, she is a quiet girl so she just laid there while we ate and had a glass of wine.”

And Kristina kindly sent, too, this wonderful picture of Kara outside the Louvre, ears flying:

Doesn’t she look like the Winged Victory of Samothrace, one of the greatest of the Louvre’s treasures?

Photo by Ivo Jansch

Kristina had considered using a large SturdiBag on their Air France flights, but at the last minute, she changed plans. She opted to board with Kara in her small PetEgo messenger bag (Kara’s smaller than Chloe, so she fits in the small size), and then, once they’d taken off, they transferred Kara into a Pet Dome (for a picture of Kara in her Pet Dome, scroll back through Dog Jaunt’s Facebook page posts to August 10, 2011):

Once we got into the air, about 35 minutes in, I opened the Pet Dome and asked Kara to go in — she did and she fell asleep for the whole flight. We placed the dome under our legs and had a good amount of foot space however we were on two very old Air France planes that were so old they even had the cigarette thing in the seat arms! It was fairly dirty and the room for legs was non-existent even without a dog or dome, but we made it work.

I’m so impressed by Kristina’s care of her dog. No leg room is no joke on an international flight, but by making it work she and her companion gave their dog the best possible travel experience. And by boarding with Kara in her messenger bag, they eliminated their need for a separate travel carrier, trimming their luggage burden. (Keep in mind that this only worked because they had the Pet Dome for Kara to stretch out in during the flight — the PetEgo messenger bag is a marvelous stealth bag, but it doesn’t give your dog the space she needs on a long flight.)

One last bit of information from Kristina about her Air France experience (please note that she was on direct flights between NYC and Paris):

Air France wouldn’t allow us to book our seats until we arrived at the airport on the day OF the flight! It was insane and very stressful because we may not have been seated together and the dome wouldn’t have worked.  We had to wait in line for 1.4 hours because Air France has yet to allow you to check in [on-line or over the phone] with your pup. I wish this would change!

Thanks so much to Kristina for sharing her pictures and information about her experiences. If you have pictures of how you and your pup spent time together this week, please post them on Dog Jaunt’s Facebook page, so we can all enjoy them!

Christopher Elliott on pet travel: That’s ridiculous!

Last year, Christopher Elliott, a consumer advocate for travelers, wrote an article about pet travel that I chose to ignore. Entitled “Traveling with pets can be pricey,” its main points were: Airlines and many hotels charge substantial fees for pets; and it’s not fair to dodge those costs by sneaking your pet onto a plane or into a hotel. Up to that point, our hearts beat as one — but then he tossed in an argument that pet owners should leave their pets at home because they’d prefer not to travel. What a silly man, I thought — muddying what could have been a tight, useful article with a point that he could substantiate only by referring to his own cats: “My kitties would prefer to stay at home, where they have a predictable supply of cat food and toys.” The resulting article was incoherent, and I left it alone (Edie Jarolim, however, blogging at Will My Dog Hate Me?, did respond).

How sorry I was to see another pet travel article from Christopher Elliott last week, this time on the Frommer’s web site. Elliott himself is an influential presence in the travel world, and Frommer’s is, well, Frommer’s. There’s no ignoring this article — it has too much potential reach.

Sadly, it’s just as flawed as its predecessor. Instead of writing a piece of responsible journalism, Elliott spins three sketchy news-stories into a web of ignorant assertions. His arguments and conclusions are so illogical that the piece must have been written purely to cause controversy and attract traffic.

The first half you can speed-read — it’s a recap of the controversy sparked by a post on his blog about how he was going to care for his three Bengal cats while he and his family were on an extended road trip. It raised, he says, the following question: “At a time when many otherwise rational people feel that dogs and cats are equal to people, am I obligated to take my pets on vacation?”

What a silly thing to ask. Of course you’re not obligated to take your pet on vacation with you. I write a dog travel blog, and interact through a variety of social media with enthusiastic dog owners and travelers. If there existed a significant population that believes it is morally wrong to leave your dog at home while you travel, I would know about it.

He follows up with three news-snippets (from 2000, 2004, and 2010) that suggest, at most, that a fraction of travelers on planes with in-cabin pets fail to maintain sufficient control over their pets en route. His conclusion? It’s wrong to travel with your pets at all (except, presumably, on short trips in your own car, or camping): “I don’t believe cats, dogs or pigs belong on a plane, in a hotel, or a rental car unless maybe you’re moving somewhere, and even then, they should be safely confined to a carrier. Incidentally, I think this represents the view of the average American.”

I don’t challenge his right to believe that, or even to assert his belief that he speaks for “the average American.” I deplore his choice not to dig a little deeper, not to talk to experienced travelers with pets, not to hear the arguments in favor of choosing to travel with your pet. And I regret that he was given a forum on Frommer’s for his misshapen opinion.

I wish that Elliot had posed a real question, like “Is it a good idea to take my pet on vacation with me?” Here’s my answer:

As a responsible and loving pet owner, I need to consider whether my pet is suited for travel. It’s not unheard of for a cat to travel, but no cat I’ve ever owned (we have four at this moment) has thought it was a good idea. How about my dog? Do her physical characteristics and health allow her to travel comfortably? Is she sufficiently well-socialized and well-trained to be a good companion? Is she likely to react well to new surroundings and new people? Does she enjoy traveling?

I am well aware that some dogs do not travel comfortably. It is up to the owner to assess her dog and determine, with research and the help of her vet, whether traveling together makes sense. It is also up to the owner to travel responsibly, attending to the comfort of her dog and demonstrating her respect for her fellow citizens by ensuring her dog’s good behavior.

I can easily imagine instances when it makes sense not to travel with your dog. I will, at some point, take Lindblad’s “British & Irish Isles” trip, and Chloe will not be welcome on board. I will go up the Nile, and it won’t be with Chloe. Your dog may have a doting “grandmother,” who looks forward to your trips because they give her time with her grand-dog. Our niece takes her Jack Russell to her sister-in-law’s farm when they leave town, because Halley adores racing around the acreage with her canine “cousins.”

Please note that Grandma and the farm are both free — given the cost of pet-sitting and boarding, it may well make economic sense to bring your dog with you. Again, you’ll want to weigh the costs and benefits (monetary and otherwise) of your options before making your choice.

My choice, whenever possible, will be to travel with Chloe. She is a marvelous, well-behaved companion, and as I’ve said at greater length in other posts, having her along enhances our travel experiences. Would Chloe prefer to be at home, as Elliott suggests, “wallowing in mud”? No. I am confident, based on her joyous enthusiasm (cat owners like Elliott would need to learn the language of the full-body tail-wag, the alert head-carriage, the bright eyes, and the wide grin), that Chloe loves herself a new sidewalk, a new field, a new source of belly scratches.

Read more responses from other responsible pet owners who travel with their dogs at The Road Forks, Go Pet Friendly, and Will My Dog Hate Me?  

Reader’s report: Pushing back when your dog’s in-cabin carrier is “too big”

Reader Joanna, who travels frequently with her Cardigan Welsh Corgi, told me about a recent exchange with a United ticket agent, who decided her dog (26 lbs., in an extra-large SturdiBag) was too big to fit under the seat:

“Last time on United at ticket counter they refused to let my dog go in cabin despite my measuring tape and pleas. Well, I took my SturdiBag in the cabin after dog was put in cargo and lo and behold, it fit with not a problem. I snapped a photo, grabbed the airline attendant and demanded they bring my dog up from cargo. They did, and ended up after the fact refunding every penny of the dog fee….”

That’s impressive. I hope that I would have had the creativity and tenacity to do the same thing, but now that I know about Joanna’s success, I’d certainly follow her lead.

Along the same lines, consider taking a picture of your dog successfully installed in her carrier under the seat on an airline (and an airplane type) you often fly — or a picture of Chloe or another dog, in the same-sized carrier you use — and bringing that with you, so you can show it to an airline agent who’s worried about your carrier’s size. I’ve started collecting readers’ pictures of their dogs in carriers, and our pictures of Chloe in her carrier (in the blog’s sidebar, click on “Pictures of carriers on planes”), and there are a couple more, posted by readers, on Dog Jaunt’s Facebook page.

Joanna has another suggestion, which comes naturally to someone with an agility dog — but I believe that we all could achieve the same result with a little effort, and perhaps some guidance from a local trainer:

“Another idea that seemed to work to make it look like it’s no problem for your dog to turn around and get in and out of the bag easily [a requirement for most airlines] is to teach them to back up. Then you don’t look like you are struggling to smash them in. Also, teaching rights/lefts with cookies will make them turn around on their own without us manipulating them.”

She referred to a friend who travels with Shelties (another dog I would never have dreamed of trying to get under a plane seat), and brings two sizes of SturdiBag to the airport with her — she believes her friend approaches the ticket counter with the large SturdiBag, then switches her dog into the extra-large after going through security.

There are some risks with that approach, namely that the boarding agent will disapprove of the larger carrier, and that it won’t be possible to transfer the sticky tag placed on your dog’s original carrier by the ticketing agent (some airlines instead use a tag with an elastic band, or no tag at all). Consider instead trying first with the extra-large, and then falling back, if need be, to the large. The problem with that approach, though, is that it lets the ticketing agent view your pretty-darned-large small dog in her entirety, not tucked away in a hard-to-see-into bag.

On balance, I’d stick with the large SturdiBag, and transfer your dog to the extra-large — if you absolutely must — as discreetly as possible once you’re on the plane. You wouldn’t need to re-transfer your dog back into the large SturdiBag at the end of the flight, assuming that your dog truly does fit under your particular airplane seat in an extra-large SturdiBag. This approach will work best if you have a traveling companion who can carry the extra bag for you, and can give you the extra legroom you’ll need to effect the transfer. Please note that this should be attempted ONLY by owners who are completely confident that their dog will not escape their control during the transfer process. If there’s a possibility that your dog might bolt once that first zipper opens — and keep in mind that being on an airplane is stressful, and may make your reliable pup less than reliable — do not open the zipper.

All of this strategizing assumes that you have a dog that is really pushing the limits of what works in-cabin, like a 26-lb. Corgi, or a Sheltie, though even in that size-range there are important differences between breeds and dogs: “But, she has shelties. They can turn tighter and are like spaghetti noodles. I have corgis, more like inert, squat sausages.”

Brooklyn’s Prospect Park: On-leash, off-leash, dog beach

Before the memory dims too much, I want to tell you about our morning in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. Designed by the same landscape architects responsible for Central Park, Prospect Park occupies a huge, 585-acre chunk of Brooklyn (Central Park, if you’re wondering, is 843 acres). When we went there, midmorning during the week, it was uncrowded and tranquil. Chloe, who loves Central Park, was in heaven here.

A view of (part of) the Long Meadow -- a 5-minute walk from the urban clamor of the Grand Army Plaza

It was also remarkably well-signed. How grateful I am for park managers who make the details clear for visitors with dogs! We entered the park from the Grand Army Plaza, at its north end, and were greeted with a park map that proposed a choice of colored trails to follow (here’s the online, PDF version). Because our time was limited, we opted to follow the green trail to the Picnic House, then turn left onto the blue trail and follow it out of the park. Even that walk, however, took us about 45 minutes.

We missed vast swaths of the park, of course, but the parts we saw were beautiful, and more of them than I could have imagined were dog-friendly. According to the park’s website, leashed dogs are allowed pretty much everywhere you can go, except for playgrounds, sports fields and the bridle paths, and there are generous off-leash areas (though you need to get up early or stay up late to use them). There are two places for dogs to swim in the park: the “Long Meadow Dog Beach at the Pools,” and “the water at the Lake adjacent to the Peninsula meadow” (but only during off-leash hours).

Another sign listed the rules (the bridle paths, by the way, are marked with gray dotted lines on the PDF park map — if you choose to follow one of the colored trails, you will not end up on them):

And a third sign provided a map of the off-leash areas, and a reminder about the off-leash hours:

The only thing these signs don’t include is the location of “the Long Meadow Dog Beach at the Pools.” It is on the website’s park map, however — to find it, click on the PDF I provided, and look just below the first “O” in “Long Meadow.”

Please note that pet dogs are not allowed in the Prospect Park Zoo, nor are they allowed in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which together occupy the northeast side of the park.

Chloe’s Clicks: This week’s best dog travel links

This week’s collection of dog travel links is a nicely-balanced blend of adventure and caution. On the adventure side, check out youdidwhatwithyourwiener‘s what-the-hell-why-not post about buying a dog trailer and taking it and the dogs for an inaugural bike ride from Mukilteo (just north of Seattle) to Langley (on the east side of Whidbey Island). The trip sounds like a total hoot — Langley was delightfully dog-friendly, and the dog trailer was a brilliant idea, and you have to read the post. Also fun: Edie Jarolim’s nearly-annual visit to Dateland, in Yuma County, AZ, this time with Her Dog Frankie.

In related news, Dollywood too has a place for visiting dogs to stay comfortably while their owners frolic. Not too far away, The Road Unleashed posted a whole album of pictures from their recent visit to Savannah, GA, and their report on the city’s on- and off-leash parks and dog-friendly cemeteries is invaluable. RedEye posted a quick report about what sounds like a terrific dog beach in Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood, complete with a nearby dog-friendly beach bar (the Dock at Montrose Beach).

And that leads seamlessly (really, this post is writing itself) to a petswelcome.com post about four other dog-friendly Chicago restaurants. Seattle will likely be adding more dog-friendly restaurants to its list too, in light of a recent rule change allowing restaurants to provide sidewalk seating in front of their buildings. Sad news, though, from New York City, where the health department is now enforcing the city’s rule against dogs in bars: “The stricter enforcement is apparently bringing to an end a rich tradition of dog-friendly bars in New York.” As I said on Dog Jaunt’s Facebook page, wouldn’t you think that New York’s health department has better things to do than shutting dogs out of places that only serve drinks and bar snacks? Many thanks to reader Jennie for the link.

On the caution side of the ledger, be sure to take a look at dogtipper.com‘s shopping list for an evacuation kit for your dog — inspired by Hurricane Irene, of course, but as we’ve learned from this past week’s East Coast earthquake, the natural disaster you’re expecting isn’t always the one you get. The Take Paws team has been spending a good deal of time on West Coast beaches recently, and wrote a useful post about keeping your dog safe at the beach.

And finally, Helen Asquine Fazio is planning another exotic trip with the intrepid Raja — I don’t know where, precisely, but it involves mountain trekking at altitude — and wrote an intelligent post about thinking through, in advance, the kinds of hazards your dog may encounter on a demanding trip (or even a seemingly undemanding trip — as Helen points out, “a very real danger to dogs relaxing with their people on the French Riviera this late summer is canine leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease transmitted through the bites of the phlebotomine sand flies”).

 

Priceline, Hotwire, Last Minute Travel, Hotel Tonight: Not for travelers with dogs

[5/6/13 Things have improved a bit since this post was published: Priceline’s Express Deals feature now lets some travelers with pets (owners of a single, small dog) find hotel bargains.]

This, sadly, is a short and depressing post. You’ve seen the Priceline ads, no doubt — heck, I’ve seen them, and I don’t watch TV — and you, like me, love the idea of getting a last-minute hotel deal. But it turns out that if you’re traveling with a pet dog, you can’t use the popular “Name Your Own Price” feature of Priceline to find a great hotel price, because Priceline does not allow you to specify that you seek a dog-friendly hotel. You can ask for a neighborhood, and a star level, but that’s it.

Now, if you choose to use Priceline simply to make hotel reservations, as you would on Expedia or TripAdvisor, you can look at the list of hotels that are generated by your request and research each, individually, to see if any of them is dog-friendly. However, here too Priceline does not provide a way to narrow down your hotel choices in advance. [By contrast, TripAdvisor and Expedia both allow you to narrow down your choices, by checking the “pets allowed” box under “refine search” (TripAdvisor), or the “pets allowed” box under “filter results” (Expedia).]

How about Priceline’s competitors? I contacted Hotwire, Last Minute Travel and Hotel Tonight, and got the same response from each. Hotel Tonight won points by responding personally and promptly, and by saying they’d pass the suggestion on to their development team (“I’ll make sure the team knows there’s a request for a search function”). There was no indication from the other three companies that they’d be letting their teams know — and yet, how hard would it be to add that check-box to the search options offered to clients? Not hard, my geek husband assures me.

Taking an in-cabin dog to Hawaii: Breaking news from Alaska Airlines

I can’t remember the last time I’ve been this excited about a piece of dog travel news. I opened an update for Alaska Airline’s “Traveling with Pets” policy, and read that as of today, August 15, 2011, Alaska “will accept cats and dogs only for travel to and from Hawaii” (emphasis in the original). I kept reading, waiting for the inevitable sentence saying that in-cabin pets are not allowed, and it never appeared — so I called the airline, and asked about in-cabin pets, and was told, repeatedly, that dogs and cats would be allowed to travel in-cabin to Hawaii. They would, of course, have to meet Alaska’s normal requirements for in-cabin pets, and they would have to meet Hawaii’s stringent quarantine requirements — the airline provides helpful links to quarantine information, and please see this Dog Jaunt post about shortening your dog’s quarantine time to a few hours.

The customer service rep I spoke to was bemused by my excitement — I think she started to understand why I was so giddy when I told her that until now, the only way to take an in-cabin dog to Hawaii, short of joining a private flying club, was to fly through Incheon on Korean Air, but I didn’t get the sense that Alaska would be making a big noise about this change in policy.

Chloe’s Clicks: This week’s best dog travel links

This week’s collection of links is half about dog-friendly places to eat, and half miscellaneous. Starting, naturally, with the places to eat, check out Zagat‘s suggestions for dog-friendly restaurants in Los Angeles, and petswelcome.com‘s picks in Toronto. Join me, too, in celebrating Seattle’s first steps towards copying Portland’s massively successful food-truck pods — I’ve written a couple of posts about individual trucks, but this Seattle Times article provides helpful info about six pods, and where to find them. Why am I including them in this round-up? Because your dog can walk right up to a food truck with you while you order, and keep you company while you wrap yourself around a po’ boy, or a SPAM slider, or an ice cream cookie sandwich.

A Twitter follow brought to my attention three sites, two of which you might want to check out. Simplychâteau helps you locate a vacation rental in a “luxury French chateau,” and statelyescapes does the same for “luxury cottages, castle holidays & large holiday homes” in the U.K. Both sites, bless ’em, let you search for properties that allow dogs to join their traveling owners. In the search box on the right side of the home page, click on “More Options,” then check the box next to “Pets Allowed.” Mind you, I have no idea if these folks do good work or not, since I haven’t booked a vacation through them. I deeply appreciate the search feature, however. [Their third site, Simply Caribe, does not get any love from me, since “Pets Allowed” is not an offered option.]

There’s not much to this link, but I thought I’d just mention it: the New York Times passed on the news that Petfinder.com tipped its hat to Pet Airways (“most pet-friendly airline”), JetBlue (“best amenities”), and Frontier (biggest variety of allowed in-cabin pets, and most spaces allotted to in-cabin pets).

Not winning any prizes this week was the customs staff at Toronto Pearson International Airport — read this blog post from reader Patty (remember Truffles and the coconut?), and see how bad going through customs with a pet can be. (The post is also worth reading for its useful info about the Marsh Harbour airport, and flying on a small Abaco Air plane as well as an Air Canada A320M-3.)

And I leave you with happy news, sort of — the southern China city of Jiangmen, concerned about rabies and dog attacks, teetered on the brink of requiring its citizens to put their pet dogs up for adoption or have them euthanized, but decided, in the face of protests, just to ban pet dogs from “a number of public areas, including parks, schools, hotels, city squares, and malls.” Please note, in the article’s last paragraph, a bit of news that was news to me: “This past May, Shanghai, the country’s largest city, instituted a ‘one-dog policy’ to control the pet population and rabies…Beijing and Guagzhou also have such regulations in place.”