Here's one I found, I'm sure there are many others.
THE BACKYARD DOG
You see in every community, a dog tied day after day
to a tree or a porch or fence, lying lonely on a bed of bare, packed dirt.
The water bowl, if there is one, is usally empty or just beyond reach.
Abandoned, but chained up in the backyard, dog cannot move
to confort or shelter themselves. In winter they shiver,
in summer they lauguish... year round they suffer.
Ofcourse, dogs can be forced to live outside, alone and always from
the human pack, but to force this kind of life on a dog is the
worst thing you can do. Being alone goes against the dog's
most basic instinct. If you doubt this, think of all the whining,
barking, and clawing dogs you have seen outside.
These dogs are trying desperately to get the attention of their human family.
People who keep their dogs constantly tired outside rationalize it,
saying that they do spend time with them. But even the most well - meaning
among them do not spend significant time with their animal companions.
Under the best circumstances, the backyard dog gets a bowl of food
and water, a quick pat on the head and just maybe
a few minutes of contact with another living being each day.
Dogs can offer people the gift of steadfast devotion, abiding love
and joyful companionship, Unless people except these
offering and take time to return them in kindness,
it would be best not to get a dog.
A sad, lonely, bewildered dog tied out back only suffers,
what sort of people wants to maintain suffering?
Why can't "working dogs" also be inside family dogs? It's a
very sad sound to hear those pitiful cries of distress.
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