Never leave your best friend behind again! This canine tour of both New York State and the Big Apple is a complete guide for traveling with your dog, providing recommendations of dog-friendly places to stay, play, eat, and explore. Dog-Friendly New York is designed specifically for travelers, with a dog-lover's focus on accommodations, sightseeing, and other vacation topics. Features include detailed listings of hotels, motels, vacation rentals, along with other accommodation options for all budgets, as well as parks with dog runs and hiking trails, day care, pet spas, hotels, and luxury doggie boutiques. Author Trisha Blanchet has scoured the region for getaway information such as: eateries with outdoor service; pet-welcoming shops; and boat trips, historic sites, and state parks that permit dogs. This is the only comprehensive guide dog owners will need that covers the region with a pet-friendly eye for the tristate region. Features include: Quick Bites Out and About Hot Spots for Spot In Case of Emergency 40 black & white photographs 20 maps Index

Provides readers with everything they need to know about Fido-friendly travel in New York State. New Yorkers and tourists can discover the outstanding variety of dog-friendly recreation and accommodations in the Empire State.

Compiled by Four & Sons, a dog magazine with a cult following, and Hoxton Mini Press, a renowned London publisherPlayful, beautiful and ready to carry under your arm - just like a spinoza puppyFrom the best green spaces to go fetch, to the most stylish cafés and hotels that welcome guests on four legs, this guide tells you all you need to know to have a tail-wagging time in New York City. With beautiful photography, handy maps and plenty of insider's tips, it lets you in on where to eat, drink, walk, visit and stay, alongside profiles of some of New York's most interesting dog owners. Whether you're looking for weekend get-aways or doggy day-trips, find out just how much more fun the city can be when you've got your pooch in tow.

Planning to bring your pup with you to New England? If so, this book will be your second most trusted companion. Completely revised and updated, this bestseller covers dog-friendly attractions, activities, lodgings, restaurants, and more. There are so many places to go in the northeastern US where your dog is also welcome, and Blanchet and Warder have found the best of them throughout all the New England states. Replete with new listings, entries include a wide array of details to help you and your dog choose where to roam. Included are restaurants that allow dogs in their outdoor seating areas; dog-friendly bookstores, historic sites, and recreational trails; doggie daycares and boutiques; dog parks; veterinary services; pet stores; and helpful organizations such as animal shelters and humane societies. This popular guide will be an invaluable resource for anyone exploring New England with a canine companion.

Have you ever considered how far you walk with your dog? If you walk just 15 minutes a day you will have walked far enough in your dog's lifetime to cross the United States. With all that walking ahead of you, aren't you ready for a new place to take a hike with your dog? Doug Gelbert, author of 21 books on hiking with your dog, has brought his pack to Long Island to sniff out the area's best tail-friendly parks and trails for the new book, DOGGIN' LONG ISLAND: THE 30 BEST PLACES TO HIKE WITH YOUR DOG IN NEW YORK'S PLAYGROUND. Long Island can be a great place to hike with your dog. Within a short drive your canine adventurer can be climbing seaside dunes that leave him panting, trotting in rolling pinelands, exploring the estates of America's wealthiest families or circling lakes for miles and never lose sight of the water. DOGGIN' LONG ISLAND explores the region's top trails with your best friend in mind... Where can your dog see Long Island's largest population of its only native cactus, the prickly pear? (page 83) Where can your dog visit the site of United State government time travel experiments (maybe)? (page 51) Where can your dog stand by the grave of August Belmont's Gordon setter, Robin, who he showed in the first Westminster Dog Show in 1877 (page 63) No Dogs! Is there any more dispiriting day for a dog owner than driving to a new park and encountering the dreaded NO DOGS sign? DOGGIN' LONG ISLAND tells you the parks that don't welcome dogs. Also packed inside these 108 pages are... ...dog-friendly campgrounds ...tips on outfitting your dog for a hike ...tips on practicing low impact hiking with your dog ...great beaches to take your dog on Long Island ...and much more Whatmakes a great place to take your dog hiking? Well, how about a paw-friendly surface to trot on? Grass and sandy dirt are a lot more appealing than asphalt and rocks. A variety of hikes is always good - long ones for athletic dogs and short ones for the less adventurous canine. Dogs always enjoy a refreshing place to swim as well. For dog-friendly parks our guides describe the trail options for your dog, evaluate park traffic from other users, tell you whether you will need a guide dog to find your way around and, of course, tell you how to get to the park. While walking the dog, Gelbert also brings along generous helpings of local history, botany, geology, architecture and more. So what are you waiting for? Your dog will want to hike to the highest point on Long Island (page 55), visit the first Dark Sky park on Long Island (page 45), hike through the island's oldes white pine plantation (page 53), see one of the world's rarest wildflowers, the sand plain gerardia (page 41)...

The first canine guidebook guaranteed to make city living or visiting more fun for dogs & their owners. Inspired by "the guilts" whenever she had to leave her golden retriever, "Jack" (the book's namesake), Rohman spent a year "trying to take him almost everywhere," finding ways to make the most of New York -- with her pet. The result is an invaluable compendium of dog friendly stores, hotels, restaurants, parks, transportation, wonderful walks & special activities. Also features practical information on local dog laws, kennels, walkers, groomers, trainers, vets & emergency services. Covers Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx & Staten Island. "Every city should have such a complete guide to its canine haunts."--DOG WORLD. "Enjoying the Big Apple with a canine buddy is easier with publication of this delightful guidebook."--WALL STREET JOURNAL. "Canines can visit a surprising number of New York's shops. F.A.O. Schwarz, for example, lets dogs down its aisles provided they don't bark at the stuffed animals."--NEW YORK TIMES. Available through Baker & Taylor, Bookazine, Koen or publisher (212) 332-0799.