We stayed at Rose Cottage, outside of Otavalo. They have two dogs there and were great about Chuki. They also have a ton of land so Chuki loved running around and playing with the other two. There was an incident over food, but the dogs seemed to work it out on their own. We rented the Casa Chimborazo and Chuki slept inside with us. If your dog is used to sleeping outside, I'm sure you could stay in one of the dorms or private bedrooms.
The main attraction in Otavalo is the market on Saturday morning. Rose Cottage provides a lift in a pick up down to the market for free. So all 5 of us and Chuki piled into the back of the pick up Saturday morning and rode down to the market. There are tons of dogs - strays, owned and leashed - at the market, so no one looked twice at seeing Chuki. The only hard part is there are a lot of people, so if your dog isn't great on a leash with a lot of excitement it can be tiring for you. But definitely doable.
Everywhere we went in to eat, we brought Chuki and no one said anything. He laid under the table, as to be out of the way. Chuki eats natural food so we would just order him an extra serving of rice and some beef or chicken and he'd eat it under the table. Most people were good about giving us either a bag for him to eat out of or a plastic plate.
Taxis were fine about Chuki as well in Otavalo. So transporting him while in the city wasn't a big deal.
All in all, once you get outside of Quito the dog culture changes a lot. Most people have dogs in smaller towns and usually they are bigger dogs so they aren't as afraid of big dogs. A huge relief.
Here's the contact information for Rose Cottage and, again, Le Parc hotel.
Rose Cottage
website - www.rosecottageecuador.com
email - info@rosecottageecuador.com
phone - (+593) 097728115 (They do speak English.)
website - www.leparc.com.ec
phone - 02-2276800
address - Republica de El Salvador N34-349 y Irlanda
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