premise: so they had a place to stay out there and then they had the yard and they had a little run that uh they kept them in when we were trying to do stuff in the back yard and didn't want them out but we had the same kind of situation at one point in time we had the mother the one of her last her next to last litter we kept we had one one we never could get rid of he was a real dumb dog  nobody wanted him the puppy was just one of these dogs just as dumb as a stick
hypothesis: We had a very stupid dog.