OK, I hope this is in the right section.

My two dogs were both due to be on the Discover Dogs stand on Sunday.  Unfortunatly the elder came into season yeasterday.  My dilema is I live in the Netherlands and I'm coming over from the Friday to the Sunday as a bit of a holiday with the girls including the day at Crufts/DD.  If I don't take the eldest to the NEC then she cannot come at all as I won't leave her in a car that long and I very much doubt I would find any kennels willing to take her in season....  So, do I take her or leave her home?

Just to add, if I were in the UK I'd leave her at home with a friend, not really viable here.  And I understand how rude it can be taking a bitch in season around the rings, we would of course avoid those area's but I doubt that will help with the smell for the other dogs.  I'd just cancel the trip but all plans with friends, hotels, ferry tickets have been booked etc.  I suppose I'm asking;

How rude is it to take an in season bitch to Crufts?

If you have someone home or friends in the country where you can live her I would leave her at home. There are going to be a LOT of dogs there and the DD booths are all very packed in together.

Speaking as one whose dog was driven absolutely berserk on Discover Dogs because he could smell an in-season bitch, I beg you not to bring her. His day, mine, and that of the bitch I had with me on the stand, was made a total nightmare, and if I'd found whoever it was whose bitch was the cause of this I'd have cheerfully disembowelled them.

Definitely leave her. Apart from the obvious the walls in between the booths are thin and not indestructible -we had a dog of another breed come through our wall last year!

Thank you both for the insight. I have never suffered from that end of a bitch in season so I don't ever think I have fully appreciated how maddening it must be to control a dog 'high' on the smell. She'll stay at home for definate now. I'll be asking a friend to look after her for a couple of days.