What constitutes 'dog-friendliness' is very much a moveable feast.
Some of those, for example, on the FB page very scathingly refer to places that don't allow Fido in the beds/on the sofas/in the swimming pool/sitting up at the table eating dinner with the humans as only - bof - 'dog tolerant'. These are the people who have fur babies, not dogs, and IMHO are to be avoided like the plague.
We're dog friendly ... but I know our set up won't work for all dogs. We don't have an enclosed garden - our land just opens up onto kilometres of woodland and pasture; we don't allow dogs on furniture, even with throws. In a nutshell, we expect dogs that come to stay to be 'proper dogs', if you know what I mean! We make everything very clear, and have a dedicated page on our website written for dogs to read
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. It works, because we get quite a lot of bookings with dogs - mainly country dogs used to hills and sheep and cows who are embarrassingly well trained; we usually fall in love with them and want to dognap them before they leave.
So - as with anything else in the world of holiday lettings - the thing to do is to sit down and decide where you sit in the market, what's appropriate for your particular rental, how many dogs you'll accept, and what kind of boundaries you want to set for your four legged visitors. Then convey all that clearly to prospective renters, and you're away!
If you're going to major in dog owning guests then you might want to provide various things for the dogs too - we provide a doggy welcome pack with various food treats and a ball, and have all sorts of things available like poop scoops, a spare plastic basket, leads, bowls, old towels etc etc. We also give dog owners a (returnable!) collar medallion with our address and phone number on it.
My experience of having dog owners to stay is that they're usually incredibly responsible and lovely people.