probably locked outside while the owners are inside. It's a bit slack on the animal if you've been away all day, get home, and then lock it out :/ What difference does it make where a puppy came from? It can't change that any more than someone can change whether they're born black or white, or whether they're born to religious parents. Ultimately, you're punishing a puppy, which, whether you like it or not has been born, because your ethics don't match with the person in possession of the puppy? But the puppy has to suffer for that? That's just wrong. What matters is how you raise it. With they young age they are, that's what's going to influence them most. I see heaps of houses with big dogs stuck in small yards, they probably rarely get walked and they are probably locked outside while the owners are inside. It's a bit slack on the animal if you've been away all day, get home, and then lock it out :/ We have a medium-sized yard that she has free run of, including the garage. But our dog is an outside dog, she comes in rarely, usually in a thunderstorm. She didn't deal well with Yasi and likes to hide in the laundry when its stormy. I don't think its cruel at all to keep a dog outside? She knows she's an outside dog and gets plenty of human contact especially with the kids, but half her job is to secure