The Story of the British Dog Being Caught by the Taliban

I want to keep this blog short due to the length of the last one so here's a short opinion on the recently trending story of the Taliban holding a British dog hostage. The story has gone rampant in the news but people may be failing to see the heavily biased style of reporting the story from simply one perspective. The dog is claimed to look sad and have received a demeaning haircut in some articles. This is all based on one video with the dog on a chain-link metal leash surrounded by a group of armed extremists. I personally doubt that the style of leash affects the dog particularly and the haircut could be seen more as a gift as cruelty considering that the surroundings are most likely fairly hot. The tail and ears did seem to be drooping at the beginning when the dog is mostly still but once he began to walk, it seemed like he lightened up. This is all conjecture on my end as well. However, even if the critics are right, the dog definitely doesn't seem to be starving and I fail to see how his captivity is any more inhumane than forcing the dog to live a dangerous life of servitude hunting down extremists. The most neutral report of the situation I could find was from NPR and I posted the link to it below.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/06/272490481/taliban-release-video-of-captured-american-military-dog