

“The people that actually go to these attractions are animal lovers. Once approved, they’ll feature a World Animal Protection badge and a link to the full animal welfare policy and additional materials so travelers booking will feel confident about the safety of the tour they’re booking. There’s additional restrictions on working animals, like horses, camels, and sledding dogs and a slew of completely prohibited animal interactions, like bathing elephants, taking selfies with big cats, and swimming with captive dolphins.Īll animal-related experiences on the site will have to comply with the new guidelines to be listed. In any case where an animal is in captivity, said animal would have to have sufficient space, company of their own kind, freedom from fear or distress, and plenty of food and water, among other things. None will include contact with wild animals, including but not limited to petting, feeding, or riding. Theyre like family, who poop right there. Good opportunity for someone to do a Monty Python-style accent.Now, all tours featuring animals will have to meet a certain set of guidelines created by the World Animal Protection.

Bit Idea: We take a call from a medieval peasant who talks about actually living in the same tiny hut with all of their domestic animals. Do your wildest animal fanatic dreams just boil down to sheep and pigs? If you could truly hang out with any animal, what would it be? Would you like to dine in the presence of farm animals? Or would you be living on a farm if that were the case? If you've ever wondered what it'd be like to drink tea with sheep or to have sandwiches with a pig, this is your chance. The best part? At the end of your date, you'll get an art canvas exclusively made by Pickles.

All you have to do is sit there falling in love. If you want to head to San Francisco, you can sign up to have a picnic with Pickles the pig (and his brother Dill the dog) and enjoy snacks and frolicking in the park while he does tricks. In the "Meet the Sheep" section of the page, it explains "these cheeky creatures enjoy snuggling, eating grass, and interrupting humans while theyre enjoying afternoon tea."

For example, you can go to Scotland and have tea and crumpets with some "naughty" sheep named Hamish, Dougal, Benny, and Lochie. Some of the trips theyre offering are ones you couldn't even imagine in your wildest animal fanatic dreams. Airbnb has officially announced that they are adding a new category to their "Airbnb Experiences" called "Airbnb Animal Experiences." In that subcategory, you can choose out of 1,000 experiences involving all types of animals from all over the world.
