I have no idea whether it is suitable for Shrewsbury. Sandra may have an idea.

I can envisage all sorts of practical difficulties with your suggestion - which is litle different to mine of having a segragated area.

You would clearly stop them going into crowded bars I would suggest, and you would bar them from venues and the children's area. I don't want to camp next to dogs and I know a lot of people who don't, so you would need a separate camping area. You would need to bar them from areas where people like me go who have no desire to meet strangers' dogs. Unless you insist on imposing your love of taking a dog to a folk festival on other people.

So having a segregated area seems to me to be a most practical solution. In a segregated area dogs could roam free. I thought that would suit dog-owners. Do they really want their dogs on a lead all day long? And if you want to go to talk to other people's dogs then you would know where to go. There would be loads of them there together and you would be able to choose from a selection instead of just relying on a chance meeting.

But in the same way that you want to go around meeting other people's dogs I want them to stay away from me. I go to festivals for folk music - not dogs.

Why not start up a dog lover's folk festival?