Liz, you choose to own a dog. That means you have to put up with various restrictions on your life. You have to walk the dog, feed the dog etc etc. You have to wipe up it's shit - although judging by the amounts on streets and open countryside where I live few dog owners seem to do so. Yes yes, I know they are irresponsible dog owners.

Let me tell you how irresponsible dog owners can be.
Dog owners in the this area were happy to walk their dogs on the school playing field. The one their kids were now unable to use for sports because of the dog shit. Yes, yes irresponsible dog owners - clearly their dogs were more important than their kid's recreation. The fact we can identify them as irresponsible did not make any difference to the fact that the school playing field was covered in dog shit.

The school had to raise the money and make an application from "Awards for All" to erect a "caged area" to be locked each evening and raise the money to re-seed the area. I would have preferred to bill the dog owners and the teacher's not to have spend their time writing applications for what ought to have been unnecesary funding. I am prepared to bet if challenged the guilty dog-owners would have thrown up their hands in horror and said "Not me guv', I am a responsible dog-owner".

I barred myself from a local pub because there was a dog running around loose near the kitchen and being a dog lover (sorry responsible dog-owner) the landlady took the dog's side. I wished her luck and suggested the dog would probably not buy as much beer as I did. Probably cost her hundreds of pounds over the years!

If you decide to attend a festival then you need to factor into the cost of leaving your dog behind in your other costs, food and drink for example, and then decide whether you can afford the festival or not.

It really is that simple.