Badenoch and Strathspey locations score high in list of Scotland's most dog-friendly holiday choices

If you want to share your holidays with your faithful four-legged friend, the strath is a destination of choice.

Half of Scotland's top 10 most dog-friendly destinations are in the Highland Council area, according to research from holiday rentals search engine HomeToGo, with Badenoch and Strathspey dominating the Highland locations with three entries in the top seven places – Kingussie at number four, Grantown-on-Spey at number six and Aviemore just behind in seventh place.

Fort Augustus at number five and Wick in ninth place also make the top 10, although Kenmore in Perth and Kinross tops the Scottish list with Elterwater in Cumbria and Rhayader in Powys occupying the number one places on the English and Welsh lists.

With Britain’s dog population rising by a reported two million during the pandemic, a holiday location with a pet-friendly policy has become even more important for holiday makers.

Almost half of all 2021 searches for rental cottages so far on the HomeToGo site have used the "pets allowed" filter, with 46 per cent of searches using this option.

This compares with just 28 per cent of pre-pandemic searches in 2019.

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