@Wesley177 When you search for listings, are you entering the number of pets in your group along with the number of people and your other search filters?
Doing this is supposed to populate your search results with listings that allow pets and display the applicable pet fee in your pricing breakdown. That might help somewhat.
Unfortunately, the setup doesn't work well from the hosts' perspective. For one thing, Airbnb's only way of appending a pet fee automatically is to make it one flat dollar amount, which is useless to hosts who charge per pet and/or per night. So you do have to read the individual descriptions of each listing you're considering, and especially scroll down to the House Rules tab, which is where most hosts lay out their pet policies.
Still, everyone is shooting in the dark about here. Airbnb changes its own pet-related policies more frequently than its founders change their panties, and hosts are constantly having to reshuffle their own parameters to adjust to things like whether they can get reimbursed for pet-related damaged, or whether they'll be punished for declining someone's Emotional Support Hippopotamus. If you're more comfortable with a simple, standardized approach than with a patchwork of millions of unique listings with various degrees of actual engagement from their owners, you might have to ask yourself if Airbnb is really your cup of tea at all.
