"I called
our hotel but the response was 'I'm sorry, sir. We've been booked up for months.' With sudden inspiration, I called back....
This time I said, 'Hello, this is Shana's human...' and this time the response was, 'Oh yes, sir. Come on down. We always
have a room for you.' It really puts you in your place when your dog can get a hotel room, but you can't." ~ J. Emmett Black,Jr., on how all the staff at a certain Holiday Inn knew his dog by name, but not
him. Crime was reduced whenever Shana stayed there; she's a 120 pound Great Dane.
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"I've been in the
hotel business over thirty years. Never yet have I called the police to eject a disorderly dog during the small hours of the
night. Never yet has a dog set the bedclothes afire from smoking a cigarette. I've never found a hotel towel or blanket in
a dog's suitcase, nor whiskey rings on the bureau top from a dog's bottle. Sure the dog's welcome.
P.S. If he'll vouch for you, come along too." ~ Unknown hotel manager's reply to a vacationer writing to ask if dogs were permitted