DearPrudie: My housemate told me how he treats his dog is his business.
You’re right to be concerned. Everything I’ve read suggests it’s a bad idea for most dogs to be kept outside when it gets below 45 degrees. It’s unfair that you’re in this situation, but I think the compassionate thing to do would be to let the dog inside yourself and take responsibility for cleaning up the resulting accidents. The inconvenience this causes for you will ultimately be less upsetting than lying in bed knowing an animal is freezing and suffering outside.
I would say my first advice would be to seek out a local humane society, SPCA, or shelter, if there is one. There may not be! Lots of more rural areas don’t have one. She should try to find time to sit down with the directors, someone on the board, etc., and ask for advice. If she can get that far, they can come up with a plan to approach the owners.
It’s always a good idea not to be judgmental in these situations. People have a wide range of ideas on how to treat dogs … If there isn’t a shelter or nonprofit, she should find whatever local group of people DO care about dogs there. There’s bound to be some, and there’s probably a Facebook lost and found group. They’ll know the contours, and maybe how to help the family and the dogs.
Finally, I completely understand that you don’t want to damage a friendship over this. But this isn’t about your friend taking bad care of his pet by, say, doing a poor job training him or feeding him too many table scraps. He’s actually causing this animal to suffer, and I have a hard time believing his indifference to suffering doesn’t show up in other ways.
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