Dog Livens Up Hotel in Boston

The Copley Plaza in Boston has a 68-pound black lab named Catie Copley as its “canine ambassador”.

She greets guests in the lobby, and people can sign up to take her on walks.

According to Boston.com News,

Catie trained to be a seeing-eye dog but needed a “career change” when she developed cataracts, said Jim Carey, the concierge director who takes her home most nights. Two of Fairmont’s Canadian hotels had successful canine ambassadors — including one pooch who was walked by Queen Elizabeth II — and the Copley Plaza decided to give it a try.

Catie and Carey take a 20-minute subway ride to work each morning, with Catie lying in the same spot in the first car next to the driver.

At work, she curls up on a powder blue bed next to the concierges, who keep her walk schedule in a black leather appointment book. Most mornings Carey lets her run the hotel halls, her nails clicking across the marble floors. Guests and tourist huddle around her bed, and she gives a wag each time someone pats her head.

“It’s a down-home, welcoming feeling,” said New Yorker Curtis McKinney, 44, who comes to Boston once a month for business and now stays exclusively at the Copley Plaza. “We started coming here basically to see her.”

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This is a great story! It is amazing how a dog can make a place seem so much more special.

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