This is seriously the most active topic on here? Dog looks fat and happy who cares.
This is seriously the most active topic on here? Dog looks fat and happy who cares.
Like I said, it is not enough information to make a call.
A comparison....this was my first day off after a series of nights. Tons of things to do. This morning I told my son to clean the bowls and I will follow behind with the water. If a video was taking of me providing fresh/clean water to my dogs some would see it another way. I had somewhere else to be so I didn't dress for working the yard. I skirted each spot and filled the bowls. I didn't interact with the dogs other than speaking to them. For some, it would be another bulldog hung out on a chain with no socialization, no interaction, just chained out til his turn.
Come back two hours later and one dog is on the mill, my son has two young dogs in the day pen ( just over an acre of part back yard/part wooded area). Each dog gets a chance to run and play.
But a single shot or even a video of me just watering could be 'speculated' in many different ways.
In the Visegrip video on youtube (around the 8:25 mark) Poncho has a crate in his chain spot. Although it is verbally explained that it is a day spot/or emptying spot or what ever temporary term is used, to some maybe if Poncho could still throw pups maybe he warrants a better set of living conditions? Maybe the owner could not afford one more barrel no matter how badly he wished to do so? Maybe the owner is just a fucking idiot?
Everything is not as it seems. I choose to give the benefit of the doubt when I do not know all the details, or even enough details to make a call.
As far as the lock being a secure way to prevent theft, it is not. The collar could be unbuckled. The axle could be pulled up, so let's bury it all the way in the ground, with some welded tabs and some concrete. Then there is always bolt cutters, heck, even a cutting torch. We could even point a 9MM and make the owner load the dog himself.
Maybe the lock was a visual deterrent more so than a physical one.
Maybe we should call the owner and say WTF? or it would be a stretch, but maybe just ask him nicely to explain.
EWO
PIT STOP (R) TOOK DAMN CARE OF HIS DOGS, I HAVE ACTUAL PICS (THAT WERE SENT TO ME WHILE ON VACATION BACK IN THE DAYS) OF A COUPLE OF HIS DOGS, CH. MECHANIC (SHIT I GOT ABOUT 5 OR 6 PICS OF HIM) BEING ONE, AND ONE OF A BREEDING HE WAS DOING WITH PIK, NO NAME WAS ON IT, IT JUST SAID ON THE BACK HEAVY REDBOY BREEDING (FUCK AROUND IT COULD'VE BEEN HIM).. BUT ANYWAY, AS FAR AS THAT BIG LOCK THING, TO EACH HIS OWN.