I, like your correspondent Dale Minks, enjoy street entertainment and certainly feel our city provides us with a great variety of high quality performers and musicians.

However, the one-man band and his singing dog, Little Mo, belong, to the world of performing animals which I hope is coming to an end.

As an animal lover I am concerned that a Border collie, a working breed with a very agile brain, is tied closely to the seat of a chair for long periods in hot weather just to provide us with this so-called entertainment.

I am sure Mo's owner loves his dogs, which seem to accompany him wherever he goes, but howling to music for most of the day is a poor existence for a lively, energetic dog.

Mrs Christine Wood,

Hillcrest Avenue,

Nether Poppleton, York.

Updated: 11:02 Friday, September 09, 2005