To think holiday sites that are dog friendly should have somewhere you can let your dog off the lead?

[Pocahontits]

We are on our second day of our holiday at a dog friendly holiday lodge.... Only problem is dogs need to bd kept on lead everywhere on site and he is climbing walls as usually has free reign of garden at home, Aibu to expect them to have a 'dog area'? First time we've taken our dog on holiday so unsure what to expect!

I don't understand why you can't take your dog offsite and let it run?

When we take our dog on holiday with us we expect to go for decent walks every day - so the fact that she's restricted near the place we're staying isn't an issue. Are there no footpaths nearby? Quiet roads that you can walk down?

Yabu.

They are allowing you to bring your pet, they dont have to provide everything that a pet needs. Dont have a dog if your arent prepared to walk it!

That means every lodge would have to have its own little garden? Imagine the maintenance problems and grass mowing. You couldnt have loads of dogs randomly all over the place shagging fighting and shitting everywhere. even the friendly ones would be jumping all over people, wandering in and out other lodges.

take it for a walk or go to a park.

Yes there are places nearby, we take him out twice a day on walks but he won't wee or poo while on the lead

I always take a washing line with me,
that way I can tether the dog,
so when we're all sitting out , he can have some more range and I dont have to hold his lead!
as long as he can reach passers by noone seems to mind!

There must be places nearby where he can be off the lead. We take our dogs every year, they are leashed on site, but we always have found somewhere they can run free within a very short walk. We are doing the same this year, and have already identifies a dog friendly beach about 1/2 a mile away, no problem for us to walk there at least once a day.

Good idea! He has a normal lead but maybe we could try an extendable one

You can get long lightweight, but strong, long chains that attach to the dogs collar, they come with a ground stake usually, but you can get them without, from the likes of poundstrecher and Wilkies, if you don't want to spend a lot.

The problem is that to many idiots have dogs that they cannot control.

I camp and the sites that i use allow dogs off leads. There was a problem on one site for the first time in years, with a couple who had an Akita and had no control over it. The woman wasn't even strong enough to hold it.

The owner of the site was worried as he has to take out extended, expensive insurance to allow dogs on the site and if there was an incident then he may not be able to afford it, on renewal.

No, I wouldn't assume it means you can let the dog off lead- just that you are allowed to take your dog there.

We had a similar issue when holidaying a few years back with friends who had a dog (never again!)
We were staying in a self catering cottage, so first of all we had to reject loads of lovely looking places which wouldn't accept dogs. We did find a lovely place eventually which accepted pets, but the rules were very clear: the dog could never be left alone in the property, had to be kept on a lead while in the garden, not allowed to defecate in the grounds. All entirely reasonable IMO but our friends were a bit put out; I think they thought they could just open the door every morning and let the dog run free. IMO if you want a pet dog you should be prepared to exercise it properly every day, which is obviously going to involve a bit of effort.

If you're talking about a larger holiday complex with communal grounds then it' makes even less sense to think everyone could have their animals running freely- imagine the scraps and fights!