Dave, throughout this entire thread you have continued to show the most appalling ignorance of dogs, to the point where I honestly don't think you are qualified to contribute. You have twisted and distorted everything I have said and as far as I can see, everything that everybody else has said. For your information, dogs recover from operations far more quickly than humans. They are up and about far more quickly than humans, but the wounds still take time to heal. Taking a dog to a festival has nothing to do with the recuperative process.