For venues
The Dog Policy Verified badge
If your venue appears on this site with its dog policy quoted from your own website or social account, you are welcome to display this badge. It links to your profile, where the quote, the source link and the date we read it are shown in full.
200 × 64, SVG, about 1 KB. It scales to any size without blurring and adds no JavaScript, no tracking and no cookie to your site.
What it means, and what it does not
It means: we found a statement about dogs published by you, we quoted it verbatim rather than summarising it, we recorded the URL we read it on, and we recorded the date. Anyone can follow the link and check our work against your page.
It does not mean that we have inspected your venue, rated it, approved it, accredited it or certified it. There is no scheme to join, no fee, no assessment and no standard to meet. We are not a certification body and this is not a kitemark. If your policy changes, the badge does not become false — your profile simply needs updating, and you can tell us in a sentence.
We deliberately do not offer a “dog-friendly approved” badge, because we have no basis on which to approve anyone. The only thing we can honestly vouch for is that we read your policy and copied it accurately.
Who may use it
Any venue currently listed on this site with tier-1 or tier-2 evidence — that is, evidence from your own website or social account, your parent group’s policy page, or an official authority. That is 81 venues as at 19 July 2026. If you are listed on third-party evidence only, send us a link to your own page and we will upgrade the record; the badge follows automatically.
Please keep the link to your profile intact. The badge without the link is just a picture, and the link is the part that lets a reader verify the claim.
How to install it
Replace the profile URL below with your own venue’s page — it is the address of your listing on this site. The example uses a real listing so you can see the shape.
HTML
<a href="https://barkandborough.co.uk/restaurants/the-woolpack"
rel="noopener"
title="Our dog policy, quoted and dated on Bark & Borough">
<img src="https://barkandborough.co.uk/badge/dog-policy-verified.svg"
alt="Dog policy verified by Bark and Borough"
width="200" height="64" loading="lazy" />
</a>Plain-text alternative, for a footer or an email signature
Our dog policy is quoted and dated on Bark & Borough: https://barkandborough.co.uk/restaurants/the-woolpackAccessibility: keep the alt text. It is the only thing a screen-reader user gets, and an unlabelled badge image is announced as nothing at all. Do not add aria-hidden.
Hosting: you may hotlink the SVG from us — it is served with permissive cross-origin headers and cached for a day — or download it and host it yourself. Either is fine. If you self-host, please still link to the profile.
Sizing: the SVG has no fixed pixel size. Setting width="200" height="64" reserves the right space and prevents layout shift; scaling it up or down will not blur it.
The standard behind it
The badge is only as good as the method behind it. If you want to check what we mean by tiers, how we resolve a conflict between your page and a guide, and why assistance-dog access is never treated as dog-friendliness, that is all written down.