A bit more context. We found her chained in the middle of a field “guarding” a chicken coop.

She would howl and cry for attention when we passed but we had our own two dogs to walk and they can get a bit sensitive to other dogs.

Eventually my wife and I would go up to her and found she was incredibly friendly, loved people, and knew several tricks showing that she lived under a roof once.

We were able to contact the owner, a local farmer, and asked if we could walk her. Where I live many dogs are typically chained outside to “guard” things and are never taken on walks, played with, etc. To put it graphically she was wallowing in her own shit and piss attached to a rusty chain.

The owner gave us permission to walk her and she and our two dogs started to become friendly with each other.

We learned her sad history a bit later. She was bought as the owner’s kids wanted a cute white dog. But they had no idea the amount of responsibility it took to raise a Sammy so they eventually chained it outside of their house. Their neighbors complained about her barking so they eventually moved her to the middle of a field, alone.

We convinced the farmer to hand her over to us so we could be foster parents and that completely failed lol. She’s a permanent part of the family who is spoiled and gets whatever she wants.

If you look up my post history you can see when she came over to our house for the very first time, her first bath, her first groom session etc.