poor baby! I definitely think you need to call the SPCA, people like that do not deserve dogs, at all.

We were just driving home from the park a couple nights ago, and the sun was setting so it was darker out, and about a block from our house this dog was just standing in the road. I got out with Gonzo's leash and by then the dog had wandered over to a front yard. It was this adorable, very, very old Border Collie mix... he sounded like he could barely breath, he was gasping for air and was very stiff when he walked. I looked around, the dog wandered back into the road and I brought him back towards the yard when I noticed that the people had their front door open! I walked up and asked them, and they said they had let him out front to go potty (for atleast 10 minutes by now)... these people had a perfectly good fenced backyard, just were too lazy to let their very elderly dog into the secure yard or to put a leash on him and walk him. They just moved in, apparently it was acceptable to let your dogs roam into streets in their last nieghborhood ... anyway, I totally agree, people tend to be excruciantingly stupid.