Please can you give me some advice....

Yesterday AM I left my housing compound and the security guard had a puppy tied to a tree outside the gate. It had food, water and shade, but I was still worried about it, so I asked who it belonged to and they siad it had been running around outside and barking a lot, so they tied it up.

I have checked with my shelter and no puppy has been reported missing in my area.

I took him into my garden, gave him food and water etc, and arranged for the shelter to collect him to give him all his inoculations, tick and flea dip etc and keep him until Saturday.

I have an option to keep him, but he would be outside-only. I CANNOT have a dog in the house. Of course he would have shade, a kennel, a water trough to jump in and cool off, quite a large garden etc, but in summer the outside temperture is over 120 degrees F!!!

If I don't keep him he will stay at the high-kill shelter (also outside but only a concrete floor - no grass) UNTIL (or IF) he is homes, otherwise he will be put to sleep. Of course there are hundreds of dogs here who live outside in these high temperatures without the benefit of fresh water and shade!

So the choices are:

Keep him as OUTSIDE ONLY
Leave him at the shelter and hope that he finds a better home than I can offer.