The Portable petswelcome.com: The Complete Guide to Traveling with Your Pet [Paperback]

Fred N. Grayson (Author), Chris Kingsley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 29, 2001

Pet owners will love this companion volume to the Internet's most popular pet travel site, together providing everything they need to know about traveling with their pets. The Portable petswelcome.com provides essential information and tips on traveling with a pet in the United States. Check out a wide range of hotels, motels, B&Bs and campgrounds that are pet friendly—along with listings of services of interest to pet owners, including emergency veterinarians, boarding kennels, pet sitters and pet day-care facilities.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

The Portable petswelcome.com takes a new approach to traveling with your pet. The authors, both pet owners, realize that you need much more than simply the address and phone number of a pet-friendly lodging. You also need a support network of pet professionals--including pet sitters, emergency vets and kennels--that you can utilize on the road much as you would at home. By providing this safety net, The Portable Petswelcome.com addresses the actual reality of traveling with your pet, rather than simply the novelty, and makes taking along an animal not only a more viable option but also a more enjoyable experience.

From the Back Cover

Now you can travel confidently and safely with your pet. At last, the Internet's coolest pet travel site?petswelcome.com?has brought the expansive content of the most comprehensive and popular stop for online pet travelers to the printed page. The only pet travel guide you'll ever need, featuring the best selection of pet-travel information available anywhere:

• Stay at great pet-friendly hotels, bed & breakfasts and campsites and have their pet policies with you before you leave.
• Experience the coolest places that welcome your pets: amusement parks, beaches, festivals, bars and more.
• Take advantage of the petswelcome.com safety net for your pet?the only published list of pet sitters, veterinarians and kennels that you can trust away from home.
• Enrich your experience: Log onto www.petswelcome.com for the latest travel updates or just to exchange messages with other travelers.

Pioneering a unique approach to the realities of traveling with companion animals, petswelcome.com has become the #1 stop for Web surfers who need information about traveling with their pets. Since launching in 1997, petswelcome.com has been visited by over 1.5 million people who wouldn't think of leaving their pets behind when they go on vacation.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Howell Book House; 1 edition (June 29, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764564269
• ISBN-13: 978-0764564260
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,150,075 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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56 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Comparison with "Pets on the Go", June 14, 2002

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Mike O. (Southern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Portable petswelcome.com: The Complete Guide to Traveling with Your Pet (Paperback)

I bought this book and "Pets on the Go" both at Amazon.com. First I visited petswelcome.com's web site and thoroughly checked it out, looking for completeness by checking their site for motels/hotels that I know accept pets. Some places that I knew of were missing in popular tourist sites where people bring pets. I found their website very large (almost too large) for efficient surfing and for fast note taking/printing out. So I bought the book instead. Well, the book writing is "cutsy" to the point of being corny. That aside, comparing it with "PETS ON THE GO" (which I also bought), "PETS ON THE GO" wins hands down. The latter has more organization, more entries, more detail in the entries, and more current information. For example, checking "Lone Pine, CA" (a popular tourist town for Mt. Whitney climbers), one finds only one scant entry in "Petswelcome.com", whereas in "PETS ON THE GO" there are four entries, plus "PETS ON THE GO" gives you the motels' URL's! "PETSWELCOME.COM" does not give the URL's. (Go figure----they're a dotcom company!). Libby Montana has no listings in "PETS WELCOME.COM" whereas "PETS ON THE GO" has four. This happens over and over. "PETS ON THE GO" is twice as fat as the other book and it is organized alphabetically by State, City (in boldface). "PETSWELCOME.COM" was frustrating for me for fast, efficient use because the first boldface entry is not the city (rather the motel---which is not alphabetized!) and you have to squint to find the city in the listings. A pain! Of the two books I would get "PETS ON THE GO" (I rated it 5 stars for fast and thorough, complete information). I would be tempted to throw the other out the car window! One just gets the feeling of dotcom generic phoniness when reading "PETSWELCOME.COM". I feel like this book is like a maze-designed building with every other brick missing. I'm a dog person on the go with four dogs (one traveller) and numerous other pets and I have no involvement with the book. I hope this helps folks that are organized and ergonomics-minded like me.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Outdated, September 23, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Portable petswelcome.com: The Complete Guide to Traveling with Your Pet (Paperback)

The cover looks nice on this book and the vet listings were helpful but I found the lodging entries sparse and outdated compared to other online sources like Takeyourpet.com

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A life saver (and enjoyable to read), February 5, 2002

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Barry S. Graubart "b graubart" (Irvington, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Portable petswelcome.com: The Complete Guide to Traveling with Your Pet (Paperback)

Tired of sneaking my dog around the back of motels and hoping no one sees me, I came across this book and the related website. The listings seem up-to-date and comprehensive. The website is great to stay on top of changes to phone numbers, etc.
Surprisingly, I found myself chuckling as I read through the book. Not just a typical directory, the hints, tips and anecdotes make it an enjoyable read. You can tell the authors are pet lovers and not just guide book authors. Anyone who travels with pets should keep a copy in their glove compartment. Once you start using this book, you'll find that you can actually check in during daylight hours :)