I can't imagine what it would be like to be a dog if a suffering situation and watch people go by and not care...how forlorn, how woeful can that be...there was a short story in stories international about a small child that was harmed, three polititions found him in the road in only a shirttail, and each one knew that if they did something, he would only be returned eventually to the bad person..so they set him back in the road and left....i do not see any difference in the dog as I do the child. The pain is the same, the same cold, or thirsty, hungry or hot..i always do the "if it were me" and I would hope that someone would see my plight and not worry about the reprocussions..i would hope they were smart enough to get me the heck out of there and keep their mouth shut about it. Stealing should be about money or property, not about a life in pain.