A house down the road a little used to have a yellow lab that was chained out all day. This is Florida, the temp reaches 95+ in the summer.
There wasn't even a tree near him to provide shade and their yard was always over grown, they never mowed. We and my neighbors called the city pound all the time to report animal neglect, but then could never do anything. The dog had a dog house for shelter, it was really crappie, but it was a shelter. He usually had water, and when he didn't they were fined. I talked to the animal control worker who came out to check on him and the man said they couldn't do anything because the family kept paying the fines. The dog hasn't been there in over a year or so, I don't know if animal control was finally able to take him or if he passed away. Either way I feel he his better off at RB then tied out in that families yard. They haven't gotten another dog, thank the lord. They are so irresponsible, they haven't even cleaned their yard up from the hurricanes yet.