"Tethering can be the safest method of controlling a hard to contain animal. There are dogs that can escape from anything. They can chew through fencing and even chain link, break out windows, open doors, climb or dig under fences, and destroy wire and plastic shipping crates in seconds. These dogs can only be contained securely (and humanely) with a well thought out tether system."

Another segment in the anti-tether community (and locally) are people who own husky type dogs, people in the pure bred fancy, and there's also a lady down in the States by the name of Dianne Jessup who's crazy about tieing dogs out.