Dear Tammy,
 Deserve Better celebrates every Valentine's Day by
asking guardians to pay special attention to their best friends. These friends are not like yours or mine,
because these friends live chained or penned every day of their lives, isolated
in backyards all across America and beyond. Here are some simple suggestions we
give to caretakers:
Just imagine what a Valentine's Day it would be if every 24/7
backyard dog received this treatment even just one day a year? Our hope is that caretakers will have a heart
and change they way they treat their best friends forever. Sadly, for many, dogs live chained/penned
24/7 rarely getting the food, water, shelter they need, let alone the attention that pack animals like
dogs crave from their pack leaders.
That's why with your help we are sending Valentines to
chained/penned dog caretakers along with educational materials and coupons in
hope that they will bring their dogs into their home and family.
Here's where you come in...
- Make
Valentine's for Chained/Penned Dogs
- Send
treat and food coupons with Valentines
- Send addresses of chained/penned dogs to us
- Donate
postage...we're sending 12,500 ♥ this year
- Send all to DDB, PO Box 23, Tipton, PA 16684
See One Valentine Party for Chained Dogs!
Why does your dog love you?
Tell me. Send me a picture and you may be find yourself in the next DDB E-news!
Dogs
Deserve Better will Hold Two Valentine Stuffing Parties For
all State College, Bellwood, Altoona, Pennsylvania volunteers:
PLEASE
try to make one of these two Valentine stuffing parties!
We hope to be totally swamped and overwhelmed with Valentines this
year, and need as much help as we can get.
Please forward to all
your dog-loving friends. We try to make this a very fun party, and
you're working for a great event: you could possibly save a life
with each Valentine you stuff!
Dogs
Deserve Better needs volunteers to stuff and ready for mailing as
many as 10,000 Valentines for dogs this year! Two stuffing parties,
one in State College and one in Bellwood, will be held to enable
more people to participate.
Party
#1
Bellwood Library
Bellwood, Pennsylvania
526 Main Street
Saturday, February 7, 2009, 9a.m.-4p.m.
Come Anytime, Stay as Long as You'd Like!
We will have Plenty of Food and Drink Available!
For more info, e-mail info@dogsdeservebetter.org
or call 814.941.7447
Party
#2
State College, Pennsylvania
State College High School Library
North building
Monday Feb. 9th from 5-10
For more info, e-mail Terri Bunge
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Love Comes In All Shapes and Sizes
Bella is one of more than a dozen stray dogs that have found
a home at the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald,
Tennessee. Most want nothing to
do with the elephants and vice versa, but not this odd couple, Tarra the 8,700
pound Asian elephant and Bella the dog are best friends.
"When it's time to eat they both eat together. They drink together. They
sleep together. They play together," Buckley says.
Tarra and Bella have been close for years -- but no one really knew how close
they were until recently. To find out
more watch http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4696315n
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SHARK Bites Pennsylvania
InJUSTICE
 SHARK Releases Video on DDB Founder's Arrest and Trial for
Saving Dying Dog
SHARK, Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, www.SHARKonline.org, and
Mike Kobliska, SHARK Investigator releases new video on Dogs Deserve Better
Founder's Arrest and conviction for saving a dying dog.
In a very compelling documentary SHARK tells the story of
one woman's fight for justice for man's best friend. Please watch:
Horribly Neglected Dog is Saved
Special thanks to Mike Kobliska and SHARK for telling this
story.
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Rescuers
Have A Heart For A Chained Dog
Ohio-
Meet Fox
He lives near Logan, Ohio. Fox has not had a very good life. He
has been in the same spot for at least four years in an area that is known for
extreme flooding. Jim and Beth have been working with Marla at Dogs
Deserve Better since January 17th. Fox has been chained to a log chain by
a tight choker collar that constantly rubs, pulls and chokes against his
neck. His paws are cold and tender from the freezing snow and ice.
Marla is working hard trying to find Fox a new home. Jim and Beth have made
several visits with Fox. Last Friday they went to tell him that everyone has
been working very hard to get him off of that chain and out of the mud and that
help is on the way. Soon he will be out of there and will never have to be on
another chain again. They petted him for quite a while. He was a very
good boy. He really loved the attention. Fox in Car Fox's guardian has agreed to surrender and Fox is searching for the ideal
foster or forever home. Fox Inside with Cat
More video clips of Fox
If you can help find this handsome, needy boy a home or foster, please
contact Marla Dakes 330.903.0039 or email crzylovindoglady@yahoo.com
Donate to help dogs like Fox
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Pennsylvania-
Another Child Killed by Chained Dog
 Chained animals often become vicious
Watch News Coverage
My heart broke to read about the dog mauling death of an 8-year-old Beaver County
girl Brianna Shanor ("Dog kills Beaver girl, 8," Jan. 20).
As the founder and director of a nonprofit dedicated to ending the brutal,
abusive practice of keeping dogs chained for their lives, I am compelled to
make clear that these tragedies, are not
isolated incidents.
Because they usually only make the local news, people fail to understand
that chained dogs often grow angry, neurotic and dangerous from their miserable
lives in solitary confinement. Consequently, many of them have seriously
injured or killed hundreds of children in the last several years.
Dogs Deserve Better has submitted a letter to the Beaver County
Commissioners urging them to follow the lead of many rural and urban areas and
to study how an anti-tether ordinance would protect the community's children
and dogs.
Dogs are highly social pack animals. They crave human companionship. When
kept chained by the neck for years on end, forced to suffer through brutal
winters and tormented by parasites and boredom, it should come as little
surprise that many of these "lawn ornament" animals become vicious.
Allowing people to keep chained dogs is not only inhumane, it is tantamount
to allowing people to keep loaded guns in their yards.
Hundreds of cities, counties and states are finally enacting reasonable laws
that tell people it is no longer appropriate to treat dogs in such a negligent
way. I urge Beaver
County to follow the lead
of so many other municipalities and consider enacting an anti-tethering law.
TAMIRA CI THAYNE
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Happy Valentine's Gift for 3 Dogs and a Family in Hobbs, New Mexico!
With the help of DDB New Mexico Rep Amanda Green, three dogs and
their caretaker got a treat last Saturday after their caretaker agreed to let
her dogs be part of her family and completed a DDB Fencing application.
After being approved, a group of volunteers and
family members worked to build a fence, put in a doggie door and removed these
dogs from their chains. Please take the time to
visit the slide show.
What a neat experience to see dogs go from being perpetually chained to family
pets again!
Success Stories
Donate to Help With Fencing Projects
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Scream Like Banshee
Tamira Ci Thayne, DDB founder and CEO, is publishing her first book in
February, entitled "Scream Like Banshee: 29 Days of Tips and Tales to
Keep your Sanity as a Doggie Foster Parent". She is now opening the
field to a limited number of book sponsorships. Each sponsorship will
get you: your logo or name/business name printed on the back cover and
listed as a sponsor, as well as either a 1/2 page (measured at 5"x4")
or full page ad (measured at 5"x8"). Books will be sold and available
at all online booksellers, as well as via the DDB website and at all
DDB booths and events. To learn more or grab one of the few
sponsorships available, contact Tamira at the following email address. Tami@littlegirllooking.com
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Dog's Life Magazine
Subscribe to Dog's Life today and 50%
of your subscription fee will be donated to Dogs Deserve
Better! Order Today
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The New Have a Heart for
Chained Dogs
The New Have a Heart for Chained Dogs
design features a starving pit bull looking pitiful at the end of her chain
and can be purchased on a variety of great items.
A portion of all purchases helps Dogs Deserve
Better and Chained/Penned dogs.
Order on a Ceramic Travel Mug or Denim Shirt!
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Love is...
Tamira Ci Thayne created this design for DDB's
" Have a Heart for Chained Dogs Campaign". This campaign is our best outreach
campaign of the year; it educates children and groups who make us Valentines as
well as those who are on the receiving end." A full 20% of the profits from sales of this piece will be donated to Dogs Deserve Better
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Our movement is growing, expanding, making HUGE strides, thanks to your help. Please stick with us, we really CAN change the world for chained and penned dogs.
Sincerely,
Dawn Ashby, Rescue & Public Liaison dawn@dogsdeservebetter.org
1.877.636.1408 · http://www.dogsdeservebetter.org
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Help Spread the Word, No More Backyard Dogs!
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