Dog Friendly Signs for Pubs, Cafés and Holiday Lets — What to Order and Where to Put Them

Running a dog-friendly venue involves a specific set of communication problems. You need to tell customers at the door that dogs are welcome. You need to tell them where dogs can and can't go once they're inside. And for Airbnbs, holiday lets and guest rooms, you need to set out the house rules without it sounding like a formal complaint. Wooden laser-engraved signs handle all of this practically — they hold up to daily handling, sit naturally in pub and café interiors, and communicate clearly without looking like an afterthought.

This guide covers which signs to use and where to position them, based on the type of venue. For wording suggestions, positioning advice and the legal position on dogs in venues, see our dog friendly signs guide. All the products below are made to order from 4mm oak veneered MDF in our workshop in North Wales. See the full range in our dog friendly signs collection.

The entrance: welcoming dogs in

The most important sign is the one at the entrance. Dog owners actively look for it before they commit to tying up their dog or walking in. A sign that's easy to spot from the pavement means they don't have to guess — which means more customers through the door.

The Dog Friendly Open and Closed Sign covers two jobs in one piece — it tells passers-by the venue is open and that dogs are welcome. Available in oak veneered MDF and FSC-certified bamboo (certificate RINA-COC-001256). Four sizes, personalised with your business name and logo. For cafés with outdoor seating and pubs with beer gardens, this is the sign that pays for itself.

For a sign focused entirely on the welcome message, the Well Behaved Dogs Welcome — Keep on Lead sign makes the welcome explicit while setting the lead expectation upfront. Four sizes. The Dog Friendly Zone — Keep Your Dog on a Lead works well at entrances to outdoor areas and beer gardens where you want to manage how dogs arrive.

For something with a lighter tone — particularly suited to independent cafés, pet shops and dog-friendly delis — the Dogs Welcome, Humans Tolerated sign lands the same message with more personality. Four sizes, optional personalisation.

Managing dogs inside: leads, furniture and restricted areas

Once a dog is inside, most issues come down to one of three things: dogs off the furniture, dogs in areas they shouldn't be, or dogs not on leads. Addressing these with a visible sign means staff don't have to have the conversation — the sign has it for them.

Dogs on furniture

The No Dogs on Furniture Please hanging sign comes in four sizes and accepts custom wording — useful if you want to specify particular furniture rather than a blanket rule. For a freestanding version that sits on a table rather than hanging on a wall, the freestanding solid oak plaque is the right format for seating areas and lounge spaces. The Please Keep Your Dog Off the Furniture hanging version uses softer phrasing for properties where tone matters.

Restricted areas

For pubs and restaurants with upstairs dining or accommodation, the No Dogs Upstairs Please hanging sign in four sizes makes the restriction clear at the foot of the staircase. A freestanding version in two sizes works well at the bottom of stairs or in corridors where wall fixings aren't an option. Both accept custom wording — useful if you want to point dogs to a permitted area rather than simply stating a prohibition.

The dog station: treats, water and feeding

Providing water and treats for dogs is one of the most effective ways to keep dog-owning customers returning. A clearly labelled station signals that the welcome is genuine rather than reluctant.

The Dog Treats — Please Help Yourself sign is a solid oak plaque with paw prints, available in four sizes, designed to sit beside a treat jar on a counter or bar. For a freestanding station format, the freestanding treat station sign stands without a base and suits floor-level stations.

For outdoor areas, a hanging Dog Drinking Station sign in oak veneer identifies the water bowl clearly for owners arriving with thirsty dogs. The matching Dog Feeding Station sign suits venues that provide food as well as water.

If you have a shared treat jar managed by multiple staff, the Dog Fed / Not Fed double-sided personalised sign prevents dogs being double-fed across a shift — practical for dog-friendly cafés, offices and any venue where staff rotate throughout the day.

Holiday lets and Airbnbs

Dog-friendly holiday lets have a different signage problem to pubs and cafés. Guests are in the property without staff present, so the signs do all the communication. The most common combination for a dog-friendly let is: No Dogs on Furniture in the living room, No Dogs Upstairs if that area is off-limits, and a Dog Treat Station sign in the kitchen or by the back door.

The freestanding versions of both the no furniture sign and the no upstairs sign work well in rental properties where putting holes in walls isn't practical — they sit on surfaces without fixings. Custom wording is available on both, which is useful if you want to phrase the rules in keeping with a welcome pack tone.

For Airbnb hosts managing multiple properties, bulk discounts apply automatically from 20 units — useful when outfitting several rooms or properties in a single order.

Bulk ordering for multi-site venues

Pub groups, holiday let operators and dog-friendly café groups regularly order in volume. Bulk discounts apply automatically at checkout — 10% from 20 units, 15% from 50, 20% from 100. No codes, no minimum spend. Provide your logo once and we apply it consistently across all products in the order. Dispatch times are shown at checkout on each product.