I am just curious... how is this being enforced? Does someone drive around your city/town all day just looking for tethered dogs? I currently use a tie out for potty breaks for my three dogs. I can not get a fence installed until the ground thaws - hopefully sometime in the next 2 months. Anyways my dogs are in and out all day. They may spend anywhere from 10 min to an hour tied outside depending on the temperature. Anyone checking on them may see one dog outside then drive by again 4 hours later and see the same dog outside. The natural assumption would be the dog has been outside tethered for 4 hours when in reality the dog spent 3 1/2 hours curled up on his dog bed in the living room.
I absolutely agree that no dog should spend its life chained to a tree in the back yard but it just seems that enforcement of any law that provides timelines would be very cumbersome to enforce and Heaven knows every municipality has enough unenforcable laws now. Unfortunatley creating more laws does not improve the behavior of all citizens.
Karen