# Could someone explain to me the mindset of someone that abandons a restrained dog?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 27, 2012, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-to-me-the-mindset-of-someone-that-abandons-a-restrained-dog/614131 "2012-02-27T07:49:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\
**Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-someone-explain-to-me-the-mindset-of-someone-that-abandons-a-restrained-dog/614131/21 "2012-02-29T17:57:20Z")

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Tellingly, chained or tied up and left behind to die is a [recurring trope](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChainedToARock) in human myths and stories, from the Prometheus myth to maidens left out for dragons to the Crucifixion itself. It shows up again and again in modern movies and TV; even in Westerns, characters get buried up to their necks in sand and left to die.

It is a major human fear. We _know_ it’s bad when it happens to _us_. We’ve got _no excuse_ for doing it to anyone else, let alone our “best friends.”

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