Chaining And Tethering: A Psychological Analysis

Imagine you are all alone outside in the middle of night during winter, in the cold with no shelter, no warmth. You are curled up in a tight little ball trying to preserve the small amount of body heat you have. You ran out of water hours ago but what good would it do for you now? When you feel like you are freezing to death. You feel as if you are in the artic as everything slowly goes numb with only a blanket of white surrounding you and the cold. As your breath slows down you feel the collar around your neck digging in and the cold chain attached to it barley touches you but serves as the constant reminder that you are stuck here in the cold and you have nowhere to go. You cry out, calling for help, for attention, for love, but nobody hears …show more content…
Chaining can also affect dogs psychologically, which can endanger the humans around them due to the dog being more likely to bite and attack. In addition, chaining and tethering leaves dogs exposed too many potential threats. Furthermore, while many would argue that putting up a fence is too expensive in comparison to a chain the cost of vet bills due to neck injuries sustained by chaining and tethering is far higher. In addition, since a dog is more likely to bite a human due to psychological issues caused by chaining and tethering an owner is likely going to be either seeing a law suit or medical bills in the mail which would also cost more than the average five hundred dollar fence. Additionally, there are many fence installation companies such as Lowes that offers payment plans for fence installation. It is also important to realize, the argument that chaining and tethering is safe as long as it is for a short period of time, is also based off erroneous assumptions with many dog owners believing that there is no permanent damage to their dog if chaining and tethering is not permanent. However, being left out in extreme weather conditions with little to no shelter can still cause drastic injuries to a dog in a short period of time and a dog can still get its tether entangled and strangle to death. All in all the arguments for why dog chaining and tethering should be allowed are fallacious and do not support why chaining and tethering should remain legal. To fight against dog chaining and tethering, there are many ways people can get involved with the easiest and foremost way of helping being to spread the word on how chaining and tethering is bad for dogs and ways dog owners can get their dogs out of their chains. Now imagine a yard where a dog can run free in their yard. Where a dog can play, where a dog have more than a ten foot