Noticed Pet Friendly no longer a selectable item when searching

[April403]

I am a pet friendly host and believe I get more bookings because of it.  I noticed since the recent announcement that AirBNB will start allowing pet fees it's now no longer a searchable / selectable item?  Anyone else notice this?  Believe it used to be next to smoking allowed checkbox which I DO NOT allow.

[Mary-Anne49]

100% agree!  We have a no-nonsense dog and I'm supposed to have the time to troll through hundreds of listings' HOUSE RULES to find out they don't accept pets??! Not gonna happen. You lost our biz.

[Mike-And-Jane0]

@Mary-Anne49 Have you read through this thread? When you put the number of people AND PETS into the search fields you will only get listings that accept pets. This is truly not rocket science!

[Bhumika]

Hi @Mary-Anne49, I have marked the best answer to this thread now,  where it is mentioned how to find pet-friendly places through Airbnb search fields for your visibility. Do let us know if it works for you!

Hope it helps to make it easier for you to filter out pet-friendly listings. 

[Mary-Anne49]

Well, no it’s not rocket science but neither is it intuitive. The search window that appears on the Airbnb.ca Calgary website asks for how many adults and how many children - nothing about pets. So you put in your number of people and then naturally hope to be able to use a filter for Pet Friendly. There is none. Who’s to know you have to re-click on Guests to find that a Pets option miraculously appears in the list?  Just ridiculous not to have it as a filter.

[Simon3776]

This has crushed my bookings as one of the few dog friendly units in my area. 

[Jennifer3701]

Yes we can't search for dog friendly, that really does hurt things having to look in the descriptions for instead of searching. Ugh

[Roger895]

Sad that they refuse to fix this issue still. I booked a place 2 adults with pets by putting that in the search. Still have to go through EVERY bit of the listings to confirm if it's actually allowed. Hotels really are winning back my business.

[James3246]

July 2022 It’s not under the filter. You have to start to plan a trip; when you go to select “who” is traveling, if you select at least 1 for pet, then the listings returned will be pet friendly ones. 

[Emilie]

@Stephanie2303 Sorry to hear you couldn't find pet-friendly places! I've shared some screenshot earlier in this discussion to show how you can find pet-friendly listings, have a look - hopefully that'l help. 🙂

Emilie

[Stephanie2303]

I JUST went on to search for pet friendly places, and without the option, searching g on Airbnb is useless. Wth?

[Aleta18]

It's back..thank goodness.  I was OFF AirBNB while they took away the ability to filter on 'pets allowed'. 

[Jacqueline1162]

that's service dog

[James3246]

That *is* for pets. The link about Service animals says you don’t have to enter them here as they don’t count as pets

[Aleta18]

Forgot to add .. this filter is available on both the web and application.  

[Aleta18]

I agree.  I need to travel with my pet. I won't use AirBnB due to their removal of this filter.  I don't have the time to sift through each and every apartment to see if they are pet friendly. Sorry AirBnB ... moving on to other services. 

[Emilie · Accepted solution]

@Graham426 @Michael-James1 As @April403 mentioned, the option to find listings that accept pets is still available - if you start a search, you should be able to see something like this. Let us know if you don't!

[Jeffrey580]

It is not an option when just did my search. I will now book through VRBO.

[Dennis241]

Mine looks nothing like that.

[April403]

It's actually been relocated to where you enter the # of people. 

[Jacqueline1162]

Not so, it has an option for service dog