Our story
In the summer of 2024, our team set out across the western United States in a 26-foot travel trailer with a senior beagle named Hanna and a long list of "maybe pet friendly" stops. Half the parks they'd booked turned them away at the gate. Trail signs contradicted what the websites had promised. Restaurants that advertised "dog patios" only allowed dogs in the parking lot.
We built Waggle Places because nobody should have to phone-call their way through a road trip just to figure out where their dog is welcome. Every place in our database is verified against three sources before we surface it, and every itinerary the AI builds is checked against your specific RV length, hookups, and pet's needs.
Part of the Waggle family
Waggle Places is a product of Waggle, the pet-tech company founded in 2006 by Siva Sivakumar with a simple belief: technology should make life better for pets and the people who love them. Waggle's mission is to empower pet parents with technology to enhance the well-being of their furry friends and strengthen the bond between humans and their pets.
Across our product family — from the Waggle Pet Monitor that keeps your RV at a safe temperature while you're away from camp, to Waggle Places that maps every pet-friendly stop on your route — the vision is the same: a world where every human and their pet are loved and cared for.
What we believe
- The dog is part of the trip. Pet policies aren't a footnote — they shape the route. Our planner treats your pet's needs as a first-class constraint, not an afterthought.
- Real verification beats crowdsourced rumor. We cross-check with park systems, official venue listings, and a network of road-tested reviewers before a place shows up in your results.
- RVers know their rig. You shouldn't have to translate "30-amp, 40-foot, one slide-out" into search filters every time. Save your setup once and the planner remembers.
- Plans should bend. Weather changes. Reservations fall through. The dog decides today is a nap day. Our trips are easy to reshuffle on the fly.
- Technology serves the bond. Every feature we ship should make the relationship between you and your pet richer — not noisier. No ads. No upsells. No data brokers.
The team
Waggle Places is part of the broader Waggle team — a global group of engineers, designers, and pet-obsessed product people spread across North America and beyond. The Waggle Places crew is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, and about half of us live and work from RVs for at least part of the year. Every full-time team member travels with at least one pet.
We are proudly bootstrapped and answer to our customers — not to advertisers, not to campground chains, not to data brokers. Waggle has been building that way since day one in 2006, and Waggle Places carries that tradition forward on the open road.
By the numbers
- 2006 — the year Waggle started building pet-tech that actually works
- 180,000+ pet parents using Waggle products to keep their pets safe and happy
- 12,000 pets saved every year by Waggle from heat stroke
- 94% of trips finish without a single pet-policy surprise
- 0 ad placements, sponsored "top picks", or sold reviews — ever
Where we're going
We're rolling out support for international destinations starting with British Columbia and Baja in late 2026, plus a long-awaited offline mode for travelers who spend serious time outside cell range. Meanwhile, the broader Waggle family continues building hardware and software tools that keep your pet safe whether you're hiking at the trailhead or running errands in town.
Learn more about the full Waggle product family at mywaggle.com. If there's a feature your pack is missing on Waggle Places, tell us — most of what we've shipped this year started as a customer email.