I was just trying to help the poor man who’s dog was shot. So many wondered why he was tied up.
Although ‘crating’ is the usual nowadays, with the ready availability of such things, it wasn’t always so.
“Back in the day”, people might attempt house training or other behavior modification [often for the safety of the dog, in the owner’s absence] by attaching a swivel-hook leash to a swivel bolt mounted on the wall.
It’s not unheard of at all.
Happily, crates, kennels and ‘play pens’ are very common now.
If tying up a dog inside is the only way a person has to keep it safe from harm, it’s not a problem.
Sadly for this poor dog’s owner, it didn’t work.
“Harm” kicked in the door and shot the dog in cold blood.
How anyone can possibly defend this unconstitutional act of brutality is beyond me.
But again — that’s a separate issue to be discussed. It doesn’t matter if the dog was tied up or not in terms of the illegitimacy of the action committed here. The cops were wrong. Whether the dog was tied up or not, whether the owner was home or not, whether the dog was a Chi, Great Dane, bully breed, or some other breed...None of that is the point, but sadly that seems to have escaped the notice of some here — who want to make any and all of the above “the point”.