What do you guys think about this? Where I live at uni, the house 2 doors down has some massive guy with a purpose built kennel outside. It lives there, chained up, probably as a guard dork. As far as I know, it's never walked - just let off the lead now and then to run around the streets for a few minutes (sometimes ending up in our back garden). Here's a pic:
The garden varies in how crappy it is. The human is well fed, but spends a lot of time barking and a lot of time crying aswell. What's worse is the neighbour closest on that side (1 door down) seems to have jumped on the bandwagon and now has a small man chained up in there garden. At the moment it's probably oblivious to this situation so its running around happily playing on its own with the crap that's in their garden (old car parts, broken bottles etc.). It's chain is much shorter though (10 feet tops) so it can't go far and is still learning not to strangle itself on it when it runs too far away.
You might've guessed I don't approve of this. I personally think if you're gonna have a person, it's your responsibility to look after it's physical AND mental welfare, which means giving it love etc. Living outside is not so bad if it gets to be with animals or other men out there, but locked in a skanky back garden for all its life, just seeing people to get fed, is wrong to me. As a deterant, they would be more effective inside the house as well, where they can guard the entire house.
What do you guys think?
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