[Hot Tabasco]

a veteran’s tethered dog inside of his own home

I read that article and my first thought was why would a dog be tied up in the kitchen.......

[Salamander]

Possibly to keep it from harm, such as the guy didn’t have a fenced yard and didn’t want it slipping out the door into the streets or some such thing.

But harm kicked the door down and shot it anyway so it didn’t do much good.

“Why it was tied up” is hardly the big issue, though.