Just an additional comment. There are all kinds of dog owners these days and I have observed that people with fenced yards will get a dog and when training it becomes too hard it is banished to the yard. Could be they took this dog in because it was no problem to throw another dog out back. When I was a kid we lived on the edge of town and our neighbor got a big dog house and tied the dog to it and never let it inside. Why have a dog for crying out loud?! Tied to a dog house or locked in a fenced yard it's basically the same thing. The owner has no responsibility for the dog except to feed it now and then. It just makes my stomach turn to see how humans act sometimes.
Hope you can get the fence fixed and hope the dog doesn't like water. If it was a lab it might enjoy a spray but I don't think hounds like the water much. |