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Win two nights plus dinner at any Kimpton hotel–and build a village in India!

The short version? The travel bloggers’ fundraiser that, last year, built a school in Cambodia with your donations plans, this year, to build a village in India for Dalit (untouchable) people. I contacted the Kimpton Hotel group, and they’re offering a prize you’ll love: Two nights, plus a $125 voucher for a meal, at any of their amazing dog-friendly hotels. For each $10 you donate, you get a chance to win the Kimpton prize (check out the other prizes too — no one can gather prizes like a group of travel bloggers!) and you move a group of shunned people another step closer to a community of permanent homes. Click here to donate!

The slightly longer version

This time last year I asked you to bid on a doggy car safety package, telling you that your donations would build a school in rural Northern Cambodia. And you did. You, wonderful you, helped to raise nearly $30,000 and build the school that you see in these pictures. These students, and dozens more, didn’t have a school until you contributed to the Passports with Purpose fundraiser, and made it happen.

This year, the same group of travel bloggers is running the same fundraiser, but with two differences: The list of prizes is even longer and more fabulous, and the goal is to build an entire village in India.

Passports with Purpose will give the money it raises to LAFTI, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of the Dalit (untouchable) population in India. We hope to raise at least $50,000, and with that money, LAFTI will build about 25 homes to create the Passports Village in Karunganni, located in the state of Tamil Nadu. For the first time, these villagers — from the lowest tier of the Hindu caste system — will live in structures that provide shelter and sanitation. It’s a team effort: LAFTI negotiates land subsidies and purchases, and the villagers produce the bricks, construct the homes, and contribute what they can financially.

It all happens $10 at a time. For each $10 donation you make, you get entered into a drawing for the prize of your choice. Your donation is tax-deductible, and all of it goes to LAFTI. If you make a $50 donation, you get five chances at the prize of your choice — or you can enter to win five different prizes (or two chances at one prize, and three at another, etc.). The fundraiser ends on December 13, at 11:59 pm PST.

You’re reading this because you love your dog, right? You are going to love staying at one of the Kimpton Group’s hotels with your pup. Dog Jaunt is a huge fan of the Kimpton hotels, as you know from my recent rapturous review of Portland’s Hotel Monaco. I’ve stayed in and visited several other hotels from the group, and each has been charming, friendly, and luxurious (and those trips were before we got Chloe — you don’t have to have a dog to love Kimpton). There are over 50 Kimpton hotels altogether, in 22 cities around the U.S., so you’ll have no problem coming up with vacation ideas. Ski trip to Aspen? Christmas in NYC — or San Diego? Take a look at the Kimpton map, donate to Passports with Purpose, and start dreaming!

Heartfelt thanks to the Kimpton Group for their generous donation to the Passports with Purpose fundraiser, and thanks too to the fundraiser’s sponsors: BootsnAll, LiveMocha, Round the World with Us,HomeAway, Traveller’s Point, Hostelling International, Quintess, Raveable,TravelPost, and Uptake.

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

This week’s collection of dog travel links includes last week’s collection — there weren’t enough for a post last weekend, but now there are several good things to tell you about, starting with some fine Halloween photos from the Black Dog Bar on Cedar Key, Florida. (I once spent a really wonderful Christmas on Cedar Key, a tiny island on Florida’s Gulf Coast — we stayed at the Harbour Master Suites, which are not dog-friendly, but here’s a list from the Cedar Key Chamber of Commerce of lodgings that do welcome dogs.) Now I want to return to Cedar Key and have a drink on the Black Dog’s deck with Chloe while pelican-watching — I wonder what Chloe will think of pelicans?!

Kelley Denz, a Twitter friend, wrote a delightful post for Take Paws this week about “pet friendly fun in Fort Bragg” and Mendocino, in northern California, and the Take Paws team also brought us a useful article, from guest blogger Carrie Boyko, about how to be a good guest when you’re traveling with your dog. Farther south, Megan.Christine shared her recommendations for dog-friendly beaches in the San Diego area.

Also included in this week’s line-up are a couple of links from the U.K., one a nice list of dog-friendly pubs in Suffolk, and the other a news item about Lily’s Kitchen Diner, London’s first-ever restaurant for dogs. Open only for another six weeks, the diner features three tables (at varying heights) and free organic food (though humans are encouraged to make a charitable contribution). The organizers hope “the restaurant will help dogs gain more access in London,” since “pets here are less welcome than in U.S. shops.”

I’ll leave you with a post from the Indian Pariah Dog blog, describing the guest author’s recent stay at a Lemon Tree Hotel in Aurangabad, in central India. Each hotel in the group apparently adopts one (or more) stray dogs and puts them on staff: “The dog’s bio-data is even put up on the website under ‘Hotel management.'” No response yet to my inquiry re whether guests may bring dogs with them — unlikely, I suspect — but this policy is a great start.

Product review: Chloe’s “Elite Kaba” Milk & Pepper carrier

I’ve posted a bunch of pictures of Chloe in this carrier (snoozing on a Batobus, on a train to Chartres), and here are the details I’ve been promising. Milk & Pepper is a French company that makes dog clothing and accessories. I’ve never seen their products in the U.S., but according to the M&P website (click on “Stores”), they’re available in Northern California and New York. We found Chloe’s carrier in Paris at the BHV La Niche, among a line-up of all-European carriers.

The fact is, Chloe absolutely does not need any more carriers. At the moment I was contemplating the carrier selection at BHV La Niche, I had a pet sling rolled up in my purse, and Chloe’s messenger bag and large SturdiBag were stacked in our rental apartment (not to mention the, what, five additional carriers waiting for her back at home). Here’s another fact, though: I cannot pass up a good-looking carrier, and Milk & Pepper’s “Elite Kaba” is both good-looking and well-made.

It comes in two sizes, Medium (about 15″L x 10″H x 7″W) and Large (about 17.5″L x 13″H x 9″W). Chloe fits comfortably in the Large. Hers is made of heavy grey felt (a 50/50 wool blend) with a black nylon lining and black leather-like trim. As you can see, it’s open on both ends, and a large flap with a thumb-latch covers the top. More serious encouragement to stay put is provided by a built-in tether. The bottom is slightly padded; I keep trying to remember to put a handtowel on the bottom for more comfort.

BHV La Niche only had the winter version (the grey felt that we bought), but another store we visited carried M&P’s summer versions of the same bag: “Smart Kaba” (a grey cotton twill) and “City Kaba” (a seriously tempting khaki twill printed with images of famous monuments/buildings). You can see all of these bags by visiting M&P’s site and clicking on “Winter Collection” and “Summer Collection” and scrolling a couple of pages to the right.

Once we bought the “Elite Kaba,” it got a lot of use. By the end of our two-week trip, the felt was pilling slightly, but only slightly. It seems like a durable bag, and Chloe likes being able to observe the world from the open ends. It may be of somewhat less use in the U.S., where Chloe either walks on her own paws or is completely contained in her messenger bag — that said, though, I brought her in it yesterday to the pictured yarn store, Seattle’s Acorn Street Shop. (It’s a small shop, but it’s packed to the rafters with yarn and knitting supplies; I like shopping there all the more now that I know they’re dog-friendly — complete with treats!) They would have welcomed her on a leash, but it was easier for me to have her over my shoulder.

One last note: I was already carrying a purse in Paris (well, kind of — it was Tom Bihn’s small “Imago” messenger bag), and I didn’t want to have two things slung over my shoulder, so when Chloe wasn’t using her new carrier, I stuck my purse in it and carried the M&P bag like a purse. It worked well enough in that role that the one night we had a fancy dinner, I used it as my purse (note to self: It looked good, but next time, pack a clutch).

Photo Friday: Le Tagine restaurant, in Paris’s 11ème

It’d be too much of a stretch to call this a dog travel photo, especially since Chloe happened not to be with us when we had lunch at Le Tagine, in Paris’s 11th arrondissement (she could have been there, mind you — and in fact, the next table over sheltered a terrier of some kind). I wanted to tell you a story, though, about dessert.

This pot looks small, but was actually bottomless

We’d each had a salad and a tagine (duck & fig for me, chicken & olives & preserved lemon for Walter, in case you were wondering), and I was ready to call it quits. Nothing for me, I told our waiter, an older man who’d received our previous requests (and our rapturous praise of the tagines) in unsmiling silence. A coffee for me, said Walter, and the rhubarb ice cream. When our waiter returned, he was carrying two tea glasses, the teapot you see in the picture, and Walter’s ice cream.

You’ve probably seen mint tea being poured at a Moroccan restaurant, but I hadn’t. It was a gorgeous, and slightly dangerous, piece of drama, and I was enchanted. “Oh, gosh!” I exclaimed, “that’s fabulous!” (we’d previously been speaking what passes, with us, for French).

Our waiter smiled.

He not only smiled, he spent the next minute or so muttering “Oh, gosh” to himself, in a strong accent, which made me laugh. In an instant, the chemistry between us had changed, and a delicious meal had also become a delightful meal.

And the mint tea — hot and fearlessly sweet — was perfect. He was exactly right to take matters into his own hands, and bring us what we should have ordered.

Le Tagine
13, rue de Crussol
75011 Paris
T: 01 47 00 28 67
Metro: Oberkampf or Filles du Calvaire

Dog jaunt: A visit to Paris’s pet cemetery

Even if I didn’t write a dog travel blog, I would have visited Paris’s Cimetière des chiens. I like cemeteries. As I’ve mentioned before, a big chunk of my youth was spent biking along country roads in Indiana and Ohio, and rural cemeteries are the perfect biker’s lunch spot. The only cemeteries I find uninviting — spooky, even — are the ones that disallow gravestones, and look like empty fields. Otherwise, cemeteries are, to me, both lovely and interesting. Terse as they are, gravestones are full of clues that link individuals into couples and families, and sketch the stories of their lives.

View from near the entrance -- the big monument on the left honors Barry the St. Bernard (“Il sauva la vie à 40 personnes. Il fut tué par le 41ème”)

Founded in 1899, Paris’s pet cemetery (despite its name, it houses not only dogs but also cats, birds, a horse and, reportedly, a lion and a monkey) is a delight for a cemetery-lover. Located on the Seine, in the Paris suburb of Asnières-sur-Seine (about a 20-minute metro trip from central Paris), it’s a tree-shaded, tranquil spot packed with beautiful, bizarre, and goofy headstones, each of which tells a tale of heartbreak, appreciation and enduring love. More than one gravestone describes the lost pet as their owner’s only friend. One owner simply wrote “our unforgettable little Sloupy.” I fell apart over an owner’s homage to Hera, who “loved the sea — let the Seine rock you to sleep at last.”

I didn’t mind weeping, though — the strength of our feelings for our pets is one of the things I like most about people, and people were very likable indeed in this place. How can you not smile at a headstone shaped like a doghouse? Or a headstone bearing a life-sized marble cat, tail curled around the edge for balance? Or a grave covered — every inch of it — with flowers and figurines and toys and, yes, Mardi Gras beads?

And no place frequented by cats could ever be gloomy. A team of volunteers tends to the cats, who are sleek sun-worshippers, draping themselves across marble slabs and curling up in ornamental urns. A note taped to the window of the “Maison des chats” at the rear of the cemetery mentioned that one of the cats was recently seen by a veterinarian, and Chloe found a really surprising number of bowls of cat food. I fret about feral cats, but this collection certainly seems to be looked after and loved.

The cemetery is open every day except Mondays and most holidays, from 10 am to 6 pm (summer) or 4:30 pm (winter). Your leashed dog is welcome.

The nearest metro station is Mairie de Clichy, about a fifteen-minute walk away (here are some excellent directions). As you cross the Pont de Clichy bridge, the cemetery will be on the far bank, on the left. Look for the arched entrance. When you leave, return to Mairie de Clichy — if you head north to the metro station on the cemetery side of the river, you’ll find yourself in Zone 3, which is cause for grief if you, like us, have a Zones 1 and 2 pass and you’re visiting during a partial metro strike, at rush hour.

Product review: blanketID tag

Back in August, Cate Hubbard, co-proprietor of blanketID, sent me one of her company’s ID tags to test and review. Included in the $24.99 (Canadian) price that she didn’t charge me is a year’s membership — which is $11.99, with discounts if you renew for multiple years. I have not been paid for this review, and I did not promise (and Cate did not request) that it would be positive.

There are sixteen tags in blanketID’s current line-up, ranging from girly pink flowers to manly plaids (we chose “Peony Green” for Chloe). The packet that arrived included clear, easy-to-follow directions, which are also available on the company’s website if you misplace your paperwork. It was straightforward to create Chloe’s record and enter the requested information.

Photo by blanketID

Here’s how the system works: Your pet’s tag is marked with a unique number and the phrase “Find my owner at blanketid.com.” If someone finds your pet, they go to the blanketID site, click on a big button that says “Found a Pet,” and enter the tag number and their contact info. A message is automatically sent to blanketID and to the pet’s owner. The finder is presented with a “poster” containing whatever information you’ve entered about your pet — including, ideally, any medical needs your dog has, so they can be handled appropriately while your dog is out of your care.

From the other end, that poster can be printed and posted by you as part of your retrieval efforts. I didn’t want to activate this part of the system, but Cate told me that when you log in and report your pet lost, blanketID sends your pet’s poster to local shelters, animal hospitals and SPCA offices within a 15 mile radius of where you last saw your pet, as well as local blanketID members (please note that this feature is only available in the US and Canada). The company will send you a message telling you which locations have been contacted, so you can follow up yourself. You do have the chance to update your pet’s info before that broadcast goes out.

The tag is small (1″ by 1/2″), light, attractive, and well-designed. Its surface, protected with metal trim and a thick clear-coat, has survived admirably on Chloe’s collar. It rests next to her rabies tag, which in the same period of time has lost all of its colored coating and is nearly illegible. I did flip the blanketID tag around after a month, so that the side with the information faces outward: When the tag rubs constantly against a base metal neighbor, a rim of black builds up around the hole, making it harder to read the beginning of the website address “blanketid.com.”

I love being able to change our contact information from the road. Setting off for a two-week vacation recently, I put a temporary tag on Chloe’s collar made from a metal-rimmed cardboard key tag (frankly, I’d forgotten Chloe was trying out the blanketID tag). The temporary tag worked well for about 2-3 days, and then fell apart. I was delighted to remember that I could use her existing tag and change our contact information.

To do so, you have to click on “Profile” in the upper right corner of the welcome page; if you click on “Pets” instead, you end up in the wrong place. It felt odd to edit my “Basic Information” and my “Additional Contact” — I would have preferred a prompt asking me if I wanted to temporarily change my contact information. Also, the only way to verify what a finder will see when they report your dog found is to report your dog found yourself. It doesn’t cause any trouble (you just get a cheerful e-mail message from blanketID saying your pet has been found), but it would be nice to have a way to double-check that you’ve given a finder the information they’ll need without activating part of blanketID’s retrieval system.

Other suggestions? I wish the list of breeds was longer. Cavalier King Charles Spaniels are not particularly rare, but they’re not included in the blanketID breed list. I wish there was a “Last Seen At” section of the poster, so that you could emphasize that information (currently, you could put it in the “Other comments” section, but that section appears at the bottom of the poster). The ring attachment that comes with the tag is good-quality, but too small. The metal loop on Chloe’s collar is thick, so the blanketID ring barely fit, and things only got worse when we added her rabies tag and her city license tag to the mix. We’ve bought a slightly larger ring (1/2″ internal diameter) and that’s made all the difference.

I’d like to see blanketID add language buttons to their site, so that if your pet is found in Paris, for example, the finder can follow the site’s prompts in French. Some of the poster wording is a little clunky right now (the first entry on Chloe’s description, for example, is “Dog Cavalier King Charles Spaniel,” and the second piece of contact information reads “Alternate: Phone: , C: xxx-xxx-xxxx”). It would be nice if you could provide your pet’s height and weight in the Size section, instead of choosing whether she’s Small/Medium/Large/XL. Perhaps, too, the company’s e-mail alerts could be sent to veterinary practices in the target area as well as the shelters and hospitals they currently target, since people often bring found animals to a vet.

My biggest gripe, though, is the company’s argument that its tags are preferable to microchipping (for example, in their FAQ section, they ask “How is this better than other forms of ID, i.e. microchips and tattoos?” and answer “Microchips are invisible and require a special reader to identify the animal. Tattoos and Microchips are of no use to a member of the public who finds your pet and you must depend on them taking your animal to a suitable place to trace your address, which must be up to date. Unlike microchips and tattoos, your information at www.blanketID.com is easy to update and change”).

I cannot agree. I strongly believe that a microchip is a crucial part of the protection you give your pet, because it is permanent. Tags, and collars, fall off. BlanketID argues that in that situation, potential finders can follow the link in the company’s e-mail alert and see your pet’s poster — but that’s putting a lot of reliance on a small photo and a brief written description. Also, those alerts only go to shelters and similar organizations, not to individuals who might find your pet. Having recently spent a day with dog park buddies corralling a stray, I know that many people are unwilling to take a found dog to a shelter for fear it will be destroyed. A finder’s preference may well be to take the found pet to a local veterinarian instead, where a pet’s chip can be read. And heck, it’s no harder to update your pet’s microchip information than it is to update her blanketID profile.

I don’t think the company needs to make this flawed argument. I believe they can succeed with the more plausible argument that a tag is an important first line of defense — so often, a simple phone call or e-mail is all it takes to reunite pet and owner — and that their tags give users a convenient, well-designed way to keep their contact information current. Moreover, they offer users an extremely valuable service by alerting local shelters when a pet is reported lost, by storing a poster that can be printed and posted immediately, and by allowing owners to give finders crucial information about a pet’s health and care.

In addition to the features I’ve already praised, part of each purchase (and more than 15% of the company’s profits) is donated to help animals in need across North America, through The Blanket Fund. I like this product, I look forward to seeing it improve, and I plan to renew Chloe’s membership in August.

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

I only have a handful (heck, less than a handful) of dog travel links for you this week — here we go, and, for a few more moments, Happy Halloween!

Petswelcome.com offers three great suggestions for dog-friendly weekend trips from New York City, including inns in the Hamptons and the Finger Lakes, and a resort in the Catskills. The Take Paws team spent a night in NYC, at Ink48 (a Kimpton hotel in Midtown Manhattan). Located in a former printing house, the hotel impressed the Burkerts with its dog-friendly amenities.

Across the Atlantic, two Blue Merle Border Collies (Blue and Smudge) are blogging at The Dog’s Blog about their life at the Bolehill Holiday Cottages in Derbyshire’s Peak District. Their report about a walk they took this week caught my eye, but I was happy to learn about the holiday cottages (within easy reach of Chatsworth and Haddon Hall) — I’m always thrilled to see an inn or hotel making this kind of effort to appeal to visitors with dogs.

I’ll leave you with a picture from PopSugar of actress Leighton Meester making her way through airport security with a dog. I love the disembodied hand patting the pup, and I’m stunned by the boots — how did she get out of them? How will she get them back on and still have time to get to her plane??

BHV La Niche: Good pet store in central Paris

BHV (short for “Bazaar Hôtel de Ville”) is a great department store in central Paris. I love it because it has a little bit of everything, which is old-fashioned and charming and useful. My favorite sight? DIY folks emerging from the basement home reno section clutching lengths of lumber and PVC pipe, negotiating their way around the fashionistas on the ground floor. It has spun out some of its departments into nearby stores of their own, including the men’s store, the bike store, the flooring store, the wine store — and the pet store, which is called BHV La Niche. Here it is from the outside:

And here’s a photo of one corner of the pet food section. As you can (kind of) see, they have a good selection of Science Diet and Royal Canin foods for both cats and dogs.

You’re looking at about a tenth of the store, so it’s big by Paris pet store standards. There’s room for a range of dog beds, carriers (all European brands), leashes, collars, clothing and grooming supplies. There’s also a corner of cat-specific supplies. If you’re looking for good-quality, basic supplies, and pretty good food, this is the place to go.

We happened across two other dog stores in central Paris that you should know about. Un Chien dans le Marais is only a couple of blocks away from BHV La Niche, and offers glamorous clothing and a few carriers and beds — all for very small dogs indeed (everything I saw was too tiny for Chloe). Au Paradis Canin, just across the river in the 5th arrondissement, focuses on “haute coiffure canine,” but the front of the shop is a small boutique offering good-quality carriers, collars & leashes, clothing and accessories.

BHV La Niche
42, rue de la Verrerie
75004 Paris
T: 01 42 74 94 31
Metro: Hôtel de Ville
Open Mon., Tues., Thurs. and Fri. 9:30 am to 7:30 pm; Weds. 9:30 am to 9 pm; Sat. 9:30 am to 8 pm

Un Chien dans le Marais
5 bis, rue du Roi de Sicile
75004 Paris
T: 01 42 74 30 06
Metro: Saint-Paul or Hôtel de Ville
Open everyday from 12 pm to 7 pm

Au Paradis Canin
21, rue du Cardinal Lemoine
75005 Paris
T: 01 43 29 25 59
Metro: Cardinal Lemoine
Open Tues. to Sat. 9 am to 6 pm

Requirements for entering the U.S. with your pet dog

Just before we left for Paris, I wrote a post about the requirements for bringing a dog to France. One of the pieces of paper you need to leave the U.S. is a state health certificate (unless, presumably, you’re not taking a domestic flight before departing the country). A Dog Jaunt reader, planning to bring her Yorkie from Paris to Los Angeles, via Chicago, on United flights, sent me the following message:

[D]o you know what the airline/state is looking for exactly, when they ask for a “health certificate”? We are traveling with our little Yorkie from Paris to LA (via Chicago) on United, and no one has been able to tell us what a “health certificate” is! (United told us that the state defines it ….. Chicago told us that we have to ask California, since that’s our final destination ….. California said to ask our vet here in the UK …. and our vet doesn’t know!) I’ve seen the link you posted for traveling to France (the health certificate form to fill out – which, I only knew about because of you …. no one told us about that for when we fly back to France) but I can’t figure out what I need to travel from Paris to LA (via Chicago). Could you help me with this?

That sounded grim, so I started by called the California state veterinarian’s office (I could also have called the Illinois state veterinarian’s office, since the reader’s domestic flight starts in Chicago, but as you’ll see, it wouldn’t have made a difference). That office told me that a state health certificate is not required in the situation the reader described. They (incorrectly, it turns out) told me that the USDA handles incoming pets; I called the Washington USDA office for more information, and learned from a helpful and knowledgable USDA official that I should be speaking to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

While pets leaving the U.S. are governed by the USDA’s rules, pets arriving in the U.S. are governed by the CDC’s rules, which simply say that your dog “must have a certificate showing they have been vaccinated against rabies at least 30 days prior to entry.” I called the CDC, and learned that the CDC does not have any particular form in mind for that rabies certification. My reader should, it appears, talk to her U.K. or Paris vet and get them to give her a form indicating that her dog has been vaccinated against rabies (with the particulars of the vaccine used) on X date, and showing that the signatory is a veterinarian.

The CDC site mentions that some airlines may also require “a general certificate of health,” even though the CDC doesn’t require that — and sure enough, the United rep I talked to confirmed that United requires a general certificate of health for incoming pets. The rep didn’t have a form of certificate to refer me to, but said that it should, generally, indicate that the pet’s health is good and his vaccinations are current. Here’s what I suggest: Take a look at the USDA-APHIS’s Form 7001 and at the American Veterinary Medical Association’s proposed model Certificate of Veterinary Inspection and make sure that your U.K. or Paris vet provides the same information (and, of course, makes it clear that the information is being provided by a veterinarian). I’ve only seen portions of the E.U. pet passport form, but it sure looks as though it handles both the CDC’s need for a rabies certificate and United’s need for a statement about a pet’s general health.

Pet relief area at Charles de Gaulle airport (Terminal 1)?

When we flew in to Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport (CDG) at the beginning of October, we had a driver meet us — we’re normally a public transit kind of couple, but when you add Chloe and her gigantic suitcase to the mix, a driver starts looking really good. We’d wanted, of course, to give Chloe a bathroom break before heading into central Paris, but our driver nixed that idea — the traffic, he exclaimed, and hustled us away. Happily, she survived, but we made a special effort to scope out the pet relief situation as we were leaving, when we had a bit more time.

Here’s what we learned. If you are arriving or departing from Terminal 1 (the round one, with the people mover tubes crossing the center), there’s only a limited amount of greenery to be found. If your dog is comfortable with eliminating on concrete, no problem — exit the terminal, walk across the roadway, and turn either right or left. If greenery is required, however, what you’ll find after you cross the roadway is what you see here:

There’s a thin strip of planting next to the sidewalk, and then there’s a steep slope of planting past a second roadway encircling the terminal. Not ideal, but perhaps your dog will be motivated enough to make it work.

[11/30/10 As you’ll see below, a reader left a comment saying that she’d been advised to make her way to the Hotel Ibis, which has some useful patches of grass around it. If you arrive at Terminal 3, you can walk to the Hotel Ibis. If you arrive at Terminals 1 or 2, you’ll need to hop on the CDGVAL, the inter-terminal tram, to reach the Hotel Ibis. The CDGVAL has five stops; you want to get off at “Terminal 3–Roissypole” and then look for the Hotel Ibis. Be sure to clean up after your dog! Please note that the Hotel Ibis chain is dog-friendly, so this would be a great, affordable place for travelers with dogs to stay at the airport.]

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.