If one is going to chain a dog outside (a poor practice that can easily lead to aggression) the dog should not be chained near enough to a fence to get over it and get hung up. I don't think that's rocket science (that is not aimed at you, but at the owner who was clearly negligent).
susie
Ran across this link today...
(Well, the dog was not chained; but it's collar was too loose; (making it too easy to get caught on fence); and the fence inappropriate for this dog.)
(hocndoc) This story says that the dog had been caught just like this before and she had helped him, just as she did this time.
Yes, I got that...and agree with your conclusion. . . My position has been that first and foremost the responsibility here for this tragedy, falls first to the owners of the dog. . .
as per my post(s):
. . .there were surely 'forewarnings' here; including the jeopardy even of dog himself; by repeatedly getting his collar caught in chain-link fence; (if even once; though it appears more often - see post #8) . . . and so from that perspective; one could reasonably offer that it was an accident that did not have to happen..