Amid record-breaking temperatures and headlines about “heat domes,” I worry profoundly about dogs like Cash, who spent his life deprived of relief from extreme weather—and everything else—while chained to a tree in North Carolina. Legislators there are considering Duke’s Rescue Act, a bill that would restrict tethering—a move we should all ask our own state legislators to make, given that millions of dogs like Cash are suffering across our nation. “Food. Water. Play. Every single day.” The words were spray-painted in impossible-to-ignore lettering across the doghouse that my fellow PETA Community Animal Project fieldworkers delivered to Cash, like those we frequently bring other dogs kept chained and/or penned outdoors in northeastern North Carolina. For the average canine guardian, these daily necessities are no-brainers. But for Cash—whom I found emaciated and dehydrated earlier this year—food and fresh water hadn’t come his way for days. And “play”? All that his owner appeared to play with was Cash’s life. My coworkers and I had been visiting Cash for year