Would you let a thirsty dog drink?

Tap water is still a bargain, sometimes free, in Prince George's County.

But the people who run the brand new building on Brown Station Road don't think dogs and cats stuck in their "care" need water -- or walks -- or that they even need simple kindness.

Walk the row of kennels in the area where the ADOPTABLE dogs are housed, and you'll see broken self-waterers.  You'll see short dogs who cannot reach their water dishes to drink.  

Dogs are a lot like people as far as things like thirst and relieving themselves are concerned.  The writer Elizabeth K. Carll, in discussing trauma psychology and torture, writes,

Nutritional deprivation is a very basic form of torture that is widely used by torturers as a means of breaking down the individual.  Survivors report being
deprived of food and water, forced to eat food that has been despoiled with feces or urine, or forced to eat substances that are not food.

Although Carll is discussing the effects on human beings of torture methods, isn't it possible that the humans who tolerate similar treatment of innocent animals, produce these same effects in those dogs, and don't we have an obligation to care if the dogs are equally victims of this kind of "sheltering?"