No this is not normal and that guy sounds like an evil piece of s**t! You should report him!

Most trainers and owners keep their dogs in yards usually fenced off with a shed for sleeping and racing lines for them to get used to running up and down in straight lines. Most big trainers and owners keep them on farms where the dogs love it!

Breeders wont use lines instead they will just keep their stud or brood bitch however they choose. Backyard, inside, outside, farm... whatever, breeders come in all shapes and sizes and so do their lots.

My good friend that breeds has built an actual room into the back of his shed with timber, skylights, insulation and all, he layed a small 3x3 concrete slab and decked it out with dog blankets. The dog has his entire back yard to roam in all day and she basically gets treated like a pet and by that I mean she sits around the barbie when we are cracking tinnies and eating snags so, yeah...

I know of another stud owner that also have his dog an actual room in his very own home! I wont say who it is but lets just say this guy was getting 3k per straw!

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