if you were going on a self-catering holiday in the UK with friends how would you feel if someone wanted to bring their dog?

[hatwoman]

not an AIBU as such - I'd just like a genuine sounding of opinion

It would mean I would cancel but I am very scared of dogs.

It would'nt bother me at all, its everyones holiday after all.

I def wouldn't want to go on holiday with a dog. I would assume the dog was going to be a major factor though if I was arranging a holiday with dog owning friends cos I appreciate they'd probably want to bring it.

I'd have to be clear about whether or not it was coming before I booked anything up with them.

I wouldn't go on holiday with a dog no. I don't trust a strange dog in close quarters with unfamiliar kids and having stayed in one dog hair covered cottage, I will only stay in accomodation which has been/is pet free.

If the friends had a dog they habitually took away with them then I guess it's fair enough
(I can think of such friends)

OTOH I wouldn't like it as I don't like dogs. But then I guess I would avoid a holiday with those particular friends.

so yeah what stayfrosty said.

If it?s a nice gentle child friendly Labrador or similar with a strict and attentive owner great?if not forget it.

If it was a nice friendly dog, I'd be delighted.

I think I would ask - but be genuinely ok with it if they said no.
Are they good enough friends that they would be comfy saying no?
Do they generally like your dog?
Is the accomodation big enough that the dog is not in their face?

off-thread - mutt - what do you expect of a good kennels? the best one round us is very clean, nice big pens with indoor and outdoor bit - but they only take the dog out twice a day, 15 mins, on the lead. at first I was shocked (dog is a lab used to 40-90 minutes v. energetic off the lead a day plus more at weekends) but then I began to wonder if this is standard/the best you'll get - none of the others I looked at even came up to it

weird - how did I manage to make that whole post a link?? (that doesn;t go anywhere...)

I'm not a dog lover so would rather not have dogs on holiday.

However if the holiday was booked and then you asked - i'd find it incredibly hard to say no even though i'd want to. Too british and all that.

So unless you're pretty sure all your friends love dogs - I'd go for kennels.

Hatwoman, you put double [ at the beginning and end of your sentence.

oh yes - so I did!

tbh the whole thing has kind of blown up suddenly. a big group of friends were going to come and stay near us. with some possibly staying with us. but then plans changed and the latest idea is to book somewhere else entirely for everyone - including us. I don't know if the main people organising it kind of forgot the dog might be an issue or if, in their mind it isn't (they like him). The thing is it's a big group and a particular time of year so it needed sorting quickly.

I have so given away any vestige of anonymity I may have on mn - but have, in recent times, worked on that assumption anyway. hey ho.

thanks for that Mutt.

I wouldn't like it if someone took their dog on holiday with us. I do like dogs but I wouldn't want a dog I didn't know around my (very young) children. I wouldn't be able to relax when the children and dog were in the same room for fear of my toddler poking the dog etc.

If I had much older children I wouldn't mind.

I wouldnt like it if someone brought their dog on holiday but I dont like dogs

if you were holidaying with me hatwoman and the house allowed dogs I'd be expecting you to bring him.
Are they country folk or townie types?

How odd.

If you want to go on holiday with people who have a dog, you would expect that they were going to bring their dog.

If you have a dog, then you just suggest going on holiday with people you know are happy with your dog.

Our dog stays at home if we are going to the beach/out to dinner on holiday. We just walk him at another time during the day.

Don't really understand the problem

It would be a no from me, I'm allergic to dogs (and therefore don't like them). I wouldn't mind being asked but would be very pissed off if someone just brought their dog as I would either have to go flapping round looking for a chemist who sold Brixonase (which ain't cheap) or suffer all holiday long.

It's a tricky one. I wouldn't want a holiday with a dog....otherwise I'd probably get dog.
But this is almost like they're visiting you.

I would have thought that in a group holiday the dog/no-dog thing would be discussed before booking?

Apart from anything else lots of places don't even allow dogs so you'd have to decide what you were looking for in the first place.