A family dog means an ordinary household companion dog travelling with its owner. It reflects the kind of dog most commonly kept by families and is used as a practical benchmark to prevent hotels from excluding normal family dogs through arbitrary size, breed, or pedigree rules that most owners would reasonably question.
Family Dog refers to a domesticated dog kept as a household companion and accompanying its owner in an ordinary, non-specialist capacity, as used within the Dog Friendly Standard (RDFS-01). The term is intended to capture the kind of dog most commonly kept by families, such as a Labrador retriever, and is used as a cultural and practical benchmark representing a normal, medium-to-large companion dog, without reference to breed, pedigree, training status, or arbitrary size thresholds.