Many poor defenseless dogs are tied to a post, tree, or fence with nothing but a 5 foot chain to keep them there. Walking in circles around your own excrement, choking yourself to death wrapped around your own painful chain, is irreprehensible, immoral, unethical, and just plain wrong. No one, human or animal, deserves to live a life of neglect.
However, not only is this at a detriment to the dog, it is also a danger to citizens. According to the Human Society ,"Dogs are naturally social beings who thrive on interaction with human beings and other animals. A dog kept chained in one spot for hours, days, months or even years suffers immense psychological damage. An otherwise friendly and docile dog, when kept continuously chained, becomes neurotic, unhappy, anxious and often aggressive.