OK, seriously then, GUEST:nado, I think that if dogs are allowed at festivals the organisers should recognise the fact and provide the necessary facilities, such as designated toilet areas (in the same way that many caravan sites do) and also make hard and fast rules as to where dogs are permitted to go. The onus, of course, would fall on the stewards to enforce the rules.

Incidentally, at the caravan site where I stayed during the Osmotherley Gathering, someone had a cat on a lead. So what about other animals at festivals?