Asheville news room bed and breakfast at Ponder Cover Mars hill North Carolina NC

WNC Magazine (May 2008)
Ponder Cove offers a memorable bed-and-breakfast experience where you can luxuriate in a bucolic setting only 30 minutes north of Asheville in Mars Hill. Your furry friend will love the welcome basket and complimentary treats, as well as romping on 91 acres of protected paradise with canine staff members. You'll enjoy the spacious country-style rooms and gourmet breafasts prepared by owner and innkeeper Martha Abraham.

Blue Mountain Living (Feb/March 2006)
Obedience classes. Agility training. Housetraining techniques. It's just the usual morning conversation at the Bed and Breakfast at Ponder Cove. In this quiet rural getaway, tucked in the hills of Madison County, dogs are just as welcome as their two-legged companions.....

The Charlotte Observer (10/30/2005)
TIRED OF RUFF-ING IT? B&B SAYS BRING FIDO ALONG - by Sara Pitzer

Bed and Breakfast at Ponder Cove, just outside Asheville in Mars Hill, advertises itself as a retreat for "pooches and their people." To say the place is dog-friendly is an understatement -- it is dog-oriented. It is oriented to people who don't want to travel without their pets.

Innkeeper Martha Abraham, who had a long career in fashion, says she traveled with her dogs for 20 years. "If my dogs couldn't go, I wouldn't go."

The concept she and husband Gary Rawlins work from is that people who want the company of their dogs should be able to stay in nice places. "They shouldn't be treated like second-class citizens," Abraham says......

ROAM Magazine (September 2005)
BED AND BARKFEST: PONDER COVE DATERS TO VACATIONING CANINES AND THEIR OWNERS ALIKE - by Meghann Barnes

There is a woman I know who is in love, a love that is like no other, a love that crosses all boundaries. She is in love with her poodle-terrier dog. Now granted, she is my mother and you might laugh at this, but I can assure you there are many people who feel the same way -- under the spell of their pets.

The love between an owner and their pet is indescribable. Most people think of their pets as one of the family -- my mother certainly does. And who wants to go on vacation without a member of their family? But where can you take a pet on vacation? Many hotels restrict animals from staying on the premises. So where can a pet and their owners go to have a great getaway? The answer: Ponder Cove Bed & Breakfast......

Rapid River (Feb 2005,Vol 8, no. 6)

WRAP UP WITH YOUR FURRY FRIEND and EMBRACE THE CHILL WITH A WEEKEND IN THE MOUNTAINS - By Sarah Folger

Still, the temperature drops, the sun hangs low in the air and we continue to shiver with the feelings of winter and the anxiety of knowing that summer is still a distant yearning. Now would be a good time to shake the winter blues and get out of town. Even though the post holiday budget may be a bit fractured, you can pick a place close to home and save on the plane fare. You can even skip the cost of a kennel and take the dog with you if you are like the growing number of Americans who refuse to leave home without their furry friends. This is what I did one frosty morn, and may I suggest you grab your four-legged critter, jump in the car and head for the B & B at Ponder Cove, "Western North Carolina's premier dog-friendly Inn."......

Our State (June 2005)

Fido Friendly (Winter 2004)

Fun Things To Do in the Mountains (June 2004)

Western North Carolina Woman (August 2003)

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