Lizzie The post at:

Subject: RE: Dogs at Festival
From: Scooby Doo - PM
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 12:07 PM

refers to the miscarriage. I don't know whether the dog biting the child was the cause of the miscarriage. I do know that the person who wrote that says it was and that was good enough for me.

Fred

"Since we know that dogs bite children at festivals". What? Every single last one of them? Sounds like a bad case of tarring everything with the same brush to me.

Is there a chance that the scientists at CERN could make a Large Hadron Bullshit Detector do you think?

Children have been bitten by dogs at festivals. I would like to stop that. You putting your dog on a lead will stop one dog - possibly - though one of the dogs that bit me was on a lead.

Dogs have fights in festival tents. You putting your dog on a lead may stop that, I have no idea.

We know these things happen - and to blame irresponsible dog owners is taken as read, we all know the cause - but the question is how do you stop it?

I have suggested two solutions.

One is to ban dogs - and you clearly do not favour that though there is loads of evidence that it happens elsewhere (without people being accused of bigotry) and clearly it would get rid of any problems.

The other solution is to have a special dog lovers area where they can camp and do doggy things together. Small extra charge.

I suggested some perfectly reasonable rules for that area - insurance, no dogs left unattended, all dogshit to be wiped up, etc.

Your solution for the festival organiser faced with stopping a dog biting children at festivals and stopping is...................???????