I don't mind dogs at all, matter of wack I have one at home & I leave her there every time I go out. She's a good dog, she'll bark when a stranger enters the yard, if you make a threatening move towards my kids she'll be all over you like a new suit, she' doesn't mess on the floor anymore cause she fertilizes the lawn & garden. I don't bring her to festivals though cause I can't trust her. If some kid wants to pet her & she's hot she probably will just lick the kid's hand but then the little brat might try & steal her doggie bone & the dog would be right to rip the kid's arm off. Another reason I don't bring her to festivals is because I hate pet snakes & so does my dog. Now if my dog can attend a festival what's to keep the pet snakes away & how can I tell my dog "DON'T" when she clamps her jaws on the ugly snakes back bone. Then it's goona be cats & rats & eliefants & infant unicorns with horns. I like to walkabout at festivals, hit different camp sites, go to a varity of workshops. Speaking of workshops,,, if I were to attend one about 'how to yodle' won't that be a muzzle, my dog could co-lead it, she can really howl. Bring in Allen Ginsburg. Really though how you gonna control a dog when through the loud speakers someone starts in with "I got a dog & her name is blue" then goes into a falsetto, forget it.

I was at Mystic a couple yrs ago & some of the group brought their dogs, one sailed through a few storms to get there, he wasn't right, took the whole festival before he was ok again. That dog hung it's self by it's leash when it got all wrapped up around the tree it was tied to. Good thing he could still yap, almost like a death nell, cause someone freed him from his noose & it attacked 2 others dogs on leashes at the red light in the middle of the street, good thing it happened in the crosswalk. It wasn't a fair fight, the owner of the other 2 dogs wouldn't let their dogs go so the little shit beat the crap out of both of them, they were much bigger too. The only reason it stopped was cause the owner of those 2 dogs got all wrapped up in the leashes & fell down, so the little shit dog let the other 2 dogs go & went for their ownber. By then someone found the little shit's owner & he wisked him away. The other dog was better though, it sat on stage during the performence & had on a T-shirt just like the performers & you couldn't tell it from us, except it drooled over some of the folks in the front row. Anyway the group'll probably never be invited back to Mystic again, not really the dog's fault, the dog never was off key, once but it couldn't play the pipes at all, it was awfull, it tried everything that made a noise & sucked at all of them, never found out who owned the instruments. I think Mystic may be rethinking their pet policy too.

Barry