If you’re the type of owner who asks if you can bring your dog along to a weekend getaway, maybe you should think twice.flyzone/iStockPhoto / Getty Images

Dianne Rinehart is a writer and owner of the perfectly well-behaved Daisy.

I once stayed over at a friend’s place when my dog was about a year old.

I wasn’t worried. She’s amazingly well-behaved. But a few days after leaving, I learned that Daisy had left a pile of poo in my host’s rec room.

I was mortified. It was so unlike Daisy – why had she done this?

The answer, as it often goes with pets, was: Who knows! The point is that we don’t really know what our dogs are going to do at someone else’s home or cottage.

So, if you’re the type of owner who asks if you can bring your dog along to that dinner party or for a weekend getaway, maybe you should think twice.

As my friend, Leslie Grant – who owns two lab-husky siblings, Dot and Watson, as well as a cottage on Georgian Bay where she often hosts guests and their dogs – warns: “Our angel dogs are not always angels in a new environment.”

Tell me about it.

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