Get Your DDB Tote Now!
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Help
the environment by eliminating plastic bags, let others know
where you stand on dog chaining, AND help support DDB all at the same
time.
Choose from one of many different designs and order yours now.
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Make a Statement with a DDB Poster
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Grab your posters from DDB and help fight for the dogs in your area.
There are several designs to choose from or select a variety pack to cover them all.
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Dog Warriors Speak Up
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For
all you Dog Warriors who write to your legislators or even just your
friends, show where you stand with these one of a kind Dog Warrior
Cards.
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Grab Your Dog Warrior Journals
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Rescue? Foster? Follow animal rights legislation? Grab a Dog Warrior Journal and track your progress.
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Scream
Like Banshee: 29 Days of Tips and Tales to Keep your Sanity as a Doggie
Foster Parent is for animal advocates embroiled in the daily adventures
of fostering and rehoming America's homeless dogs.
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Thayne
mixes tips for those who need to step up to foster with tips for those
who foster too much, adding a dash of laughter, a pinch of sadness, and
a wallop of honesty, for a quick read you might not want to put down.
She
includes a 29-day diary with tales of foster parenting gone right or
gone wrong. This is Banshee's story, the story of what he taught her,
and the story of his foster siblings.
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Dear Tammy,
The
Dog A Day Summer Challenge is still going strong with 83 dogs rescued
so far this summer! Great job everyone, but we're not through
yet!!
Tashi is a 10-11 month old sable female American Pit Bull Terrier. She
was found outside of an apartment complex in Hobbs, NM. The most
disturbing part of her rescue was what had been done to her. She had an
old injury to the back of her nectk from being chained and a bite mark
to the right side of her mouth.
She also
had gang tags for West Side Crips ("WSC") and the name "Albert" in
black marker down the white part of her chest. Someone thought she was
a piece of property that they could tag as they would a wall or an old
building.
If you'd like adoption info on Tashi, or to see the other 82 rescue dogs stories and photos, please click HERE
Donate
Toward the Massive Vet Bills this Program has Entailed!
If
you'd like to sponsor via regular USPS mail, send
to P.O. Box 23, Tipton, PA 16684or
you may call 1.877.636.1408 to use Visa/Mastercard/AmEx
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PA
Anti-Tethering Website Introduced
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Thanks to the hard work of Kathleen Slagle, there is now a website dedicated to the current PA anti-tethering
legislation - HB1254.
Why does Pennsylvania need an anti-tethering law?
Current animal cruelty laws allow a dog to be chained to a stationary object
for its entire life as long as minimal food, water and so-called shelter are
provided. The standards are extremely low. Legal action cannot
be taken until a dog is already suffering from dehydration,
malnutrition, hypo or hyperthermia.
Although denial of vet care is against the law, the majority of chained dogs
suffer from unseen maladies such as Lyme disease, ear infections, worms, fleas
and teeth problems. There are numerous other unseen problems
due to poor nutrition.
The practice of
chaining a social, "pack" animal like a dog is a holdover from a less
enlightened time when dogs were seen as mere property. Today it is widely
accepted that dogs are intelligent, social animals who, by the very nature we have
bred into them, require companionship and care. Responsible pet
owners do not chain their dogs for extended periods of
time. But there exist countless low end breeders, hunters and others who
think nothing of staking a dog in the yard and letting it live in the same four
square feet of mud or dirt its entire life. Because chaining a dog is
a passive act of neglect and cruelty and not an active act of cruelty
such as beating a dog, some people have failed to see the abuse inherent
in this activity.
Unchain PA Dogs
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3 Yr Old Bitten, was Dog Illegally Chained
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APOPKA -- A 3-year-old boy is recovering from surgery after he was bitten by a dog belonging to his uncle Thursday night.
Investigators
said the dog, a German Shepherd, was chained to the front of a home on
Robinson Avenue, but for some reason went after the boy.
[They are investigating because they have a
tethering ordinance and they know that a chained dog is 3X more likely to bite.]
Read the rest of the story.
Video
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LAUGH BREAK
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Ever see a skateboarding dog?? Check it out here.
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DDB Area Rep Spotlight: Patricia Aldering
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When I was notified that I
had been accepted as an Area Representative for Dogs Deserve Better I decided
to hit the ground running, because I knew first hand that dogs were dying on
the end of their chains in my county. Damian was a chained dog that died. This
was extremely upsetting to me, and I found his death even more tragic when I
learned that local law enforcement had seen him shortly before his death. They
claimed nothing was wrong, even though a witness stated he was starving.
When I worked for a large
law enforcement agency in another state, we were very proactive in handling
animal cruelty cases. It was very unsettling to realize that my hometown was
still living in the dark ages, not taking these types of complaints seriously.
It was like a black eye on my community, and I vowed to work hard to make a
positive change. Read on...
In the three years that I
have been with Dogs Deserve Better, I have brought an awareness of the plight
of chained and penned dogs to my community by empowering others to speak up,
and educating the importance of becoming politically involved so they can work
for stricter animal cruelty laws. I have spoken before my county commissioners
on numerous occasions, insisting on better and ongoing training for law enforcement
in the handling of animal cruelty cases. More than once I have hit brick walls
with many of the officials, but I don't let it stop me. I feel the only way we
can save the lives of chained and penned dogs is to empower the community to
speak up for these voiceless victims, and to educate law enforcement on the
cruelty of the practice and insist they take action when they know our state or
local animal laws are being violated.
I have spent countless hours
educating police officers when I have called them to a home of a chained dog.
When they refuse to take action because they say their agency doesn't have the
time or money, I remind them they are mandated under the law to enforce animal
cruelty laws. In every chain dog that I have visited, there has always been a
violation of the cruelty laws. I send a strong message to law enforcement that
they need to be the voice for an animal victim, just as they do in child abuse
cases where an infant cannot speak for himself.
The media has contacted me
several times over the years and have aired several stories on chained dogs.
Last winter they visited chained dogs with me and aired the story that night.
Within minutes of the story being aired I started receiving tips on chained
dogs and donations to support my work, and many people contacted me just to say
thank you for the great work of Dogs Deserve Better. Most recently a story was
aired about a particular group of chained dogs that the owner was willing to
relinquish to Dogs Deserve Better, but we had run out of foster homes and we
were seeking help from the community to find good homes.
I monitor animal laws at the
state and local level, watching the actions of politicians to learn which ones
vote for better laws for animals. People value my opinion, calling to ask who
they should vote for, and that tells me that people in the state of Michigan
are becoming very serious about the treatment of animals and want their tax
dollars to be spent working to better the treatment of animals.
Twice I have asked the city
commissioners to pass an ordinance limiting the amount of time a dog can be
tethered, stressing the fact that chained dogs can become aggressive and
dangerous to children and elderly adults. They have yet to pass such an
ordinance, so I continue to get names on a petition, which will be hand
delivered to them.
Working with the Dogs
Deserve Better team has been a wonderful experience for me. We all have our
strengths and weaknesses and we utilize the skills and knowledge of each other
to reach a common goal: to end the cruel practice of chaining and penning dogs.
We throw ideas off each other, offer advice, and many times we contact each
other just to vent We are down in the trenches dealing with such an ugly
atrocity that we need the support system of each other. I am proud to be a part
of such a great team.
Kalamazoo DDB
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Interested in becoming a DDB rep in your area? Click here to find out how!
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Providing Service, Education & Compassion to SW Virginia
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Shannon Allen believes dogs belong indoors as part of the family and started a local chapter of Dogs Deserve Better.
News Story
DDB, according to Allen, is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to freeing the chained dog and bringing man's "best friend" into the
hoe and family. As a DDB representative
she wanted to be a voice for chained and penned dogs, whose sadness, according
to Allen, speaks only through their eyes.
Virginian Leader
DDB of Giles County VA
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Sincerely,
The Dogs Deserve Better Team
Dogs Deserve Better
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