Festivals here are usually in rural areas. Vast numbers of the people who attend are from other parts of the province and other provinces, are travelling in RVs, and they are usually including the festivals in their vacations. They travel with their dogs.

Dogs on leads, not staked out with owners away, and not in venues is the usual rule at these festivals, and I've never witnessed a problem yet. People routinely pick up after their dogs, as it would be hard not to with so many people watching - Nova Scotians are not shy about telling people to do the right thing on such issues.

One festival, which I will not name since I'm about to call the organizers anal, self-important, musically tone-deaf snobs, tried a no-dog policy for a year. The Rv-ers stayed away in droves, revenues dropped like a stone, and they reversed the policy thereafter.