"I think there are good, responsible dog owners just like there are good, responsible parents. Then there are people who are not really in control of their dog/child, and allow them to become a public nuisance. And usually they don't really care."

Spot on, Joanie.

For my part I wouldn't dream of bringing my dachshund along to a festival, for *his* sake, not for the sake of others. This despite my dog being a seasoned traveller who's roamed with me through Denmark and other countries for shows and working trials in his younger days, stayed in hotels without being a nuisance and spent hours on end on trains, boats and once even on planes.

Here in Denmark festivals usually include lots of people drinking beer from glass bottles, and when the booze enters, so exits whatever brains they may once have had and they just drop their bottles where they empty them. I don't want to have to pay to have my dog's paws patched up by a vet after stepping on that.. There are other reasons, too, but that's the main reason.

I'm lucky to have two alternative homes for my dog, so when I go gallivanting, he goes visiting. And when I get home we've both of us had a nice break, his a quiet one, mine less so.

That said, I don't mind in the least that there are (well behaved) dogs present at festivals, and the glass bottle problem seems to be more or less non-existent in Britain from what I've seen.

Best wishes,

Bente