If you have doubts, think of all the wining, clawing, barking dogs you have seen tied out alone. They are trying to get someone's attention to their plight. Failing to do so, they will, in time, become either hyper or listless or perhaps fearful and vicious, when the stress of solitary confinement becomes too much for them to endure any longer. But the truth is, when the weather is hot, cold or stormy, these animals are at most, tended to long enough to drop a bowl of food and water in front of them and a quick pat on the head. The poor dog is then left to endure another lonely, miserable twenty three hours and fifty nine minutes of solitary confinement.
Dogs offer people the gifts of steadfast devotion, abiding love and companionship.
Unless people can accept the responsiblity of returning these offerings in kind, then they would best not own a dog.