How about trying to talk your friends out of getting a dog and trying to talk them into getting a pet rock instead? Rocks can be kept outside and neglected. Rocks don't have to be trained and rocks don't bite, or misbehave.

Personally, I don't feel that any dog would feel "at home" or happy in a house where it is confined to the outdoors, not trained, and generally mistreated.

Sorry. I would never, ever suggest a living creature to be subjected to that type of life.