It never ceases to amaze me how oblivious people are to their surroundings.
Case in point, in my area, if tether a small dog or cat outside, odds are you will feed a chicken hawk or eagle.
Therefore, don’t *do* that.
Stupid people.
One of my goats was, in his former life, chained to a dog house up on the mountain where packs of eastern wolves roamed.
That’s how I ended up with him.
I went up and got him.
I have a friend who lives on Lake St. Clair here in S.E. Michigan and that's exactly what happened to her neighbor's miniature dachsund.......
And to make things worse, an eagle was known to be in the area and was even observed by my friend sitting on one of the pylons on her boat dock.........