Massive restrictions on dog owners? There are already massive restrictions on dog owners - some of which dog owners ignore. I didn't go to the ceilidh tent at Bromyard so I can't comment but I certainly never saw a dog in the main marquee.

So dog owners accepted restrictions at Bromyard. They also don't take them into restaurants - except some places of course who don't see this as a problem - which is most restaurants as I am sure you are aware. I have never seen a dog in a cinema, theatre, supermarket or a hospital or classical music concert. Large numbers of hotels don't allow dogs and you have to keep them outside school gates.

So the idea that dog owners have some kind of freedom to act as they wish with their dogs without restriction and that asking them to leave them at home for a folk festival is some kind of big new deal is patent nonsense. As some dog owners on this thread have attested they would never dream of taking a dog to a festival.

I have yet to discover why a dog is a nuisance inside a tent and thus barred and not outside a tent.

And unfortunately Baz and you have my sympathy, it is impossible to bar drunks from folk festivals - much as it is to bar them from anywhere else. But it is possible (easily) to bar dogs.