Order Our New Yard Sign & help spread the word!
They hold up for months outside, and will be seen by those driving by for a long, long time before wearing out.
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New DDB Brochures
in Tribute to the Bullys
Support DDB, pay tribute to the misunderstood Bully Breeds & educate the public all with the new DDB Brochures.
Get yours HERE before they are all gone!!!
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Mobile Billboard
Show your support for the dogs with your very own mobile billboard.
So much more than a small vehicle magnet...let the public know where you stand!
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Get Your DDB Stickers
Pickup a supply of DDB Stickers to use for your letters to your legislators and even to your friends.
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Hollywood Hamilton Fan?
Sign Up NOW for The American Dog Magazine, DDB Gets the Proceeds
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DDB Poster Campaign
The
Dogs Deserve Better poster campaign hits five aspects of
our chained dog awareness efforts: physical needs, the generational
approach (passed down from generation to generation), legislation,
moral obligation and responsibility, and humane education
and emotional needs.
PLEASE
take action to educate in any way possible! We must help the
chained dogs and the penned dogs, because they cannot help themselves.
They deserve better than life on a chain/in a pen, and by placing
these posters near areas where chained dogs live, you make save
a life.
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The
Number One Way to make a difference in the lives of chained dogs
and penned dogs in the short term is to get educational information
into the hands of the caretakers.
Get your Door Hangers now!
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Dear Tammy,
Chained Cocker Reunites with Man who Loves Him! The Happiest-Ending Rescue Story of the Year.
A story of Man Loses Dog, DDB Rescues and
Returns Dog for Amazing Happy Ending Tale
Dogs
Deserve Better received an urgent e-mail from Zella Anderson of Central
Pennsylvania Animal Alliance, requesting help for Neal Brooks from the
Harrisburg, PA area. Seems
that Neal, a man who uses a wheelchair due to loss of one leg, had gone
to Tennessee with his dog to a relative's home, spent a couple of
months there, but was unable to get a ride home, having to take the bus
back. Read the full story and watch the Reunion Video, priceless!
Dogs
Deserve Better so RARELY gets caretakers who TRULY love their dogs,
that for us to get to pull a dog off a chain and reunite him with a man
who loves him is a very rare treat indeed. We're so pleased to share
this happy moment with all of you.
Speaking of Happy Ending Rescue Stories, Unchain My Heart is shipping from the printer tomorrow, and will start shipping to YOU on Monday!
Curl
up with your favorite companion for a night of reading by the fire.
Because dogs DO deserve better than life on a chain, and DDB reps are
making sure they get it!
Will ship beginning NOVEMBER 23, 2009! Order now.
Unchain My Heart is also available bundled with other DDB books Scream Like Banshee, Puddles on the Floor, and/or the DDB 2010 Calendar to Save between $5.00-$10.00 per Bundle!
View the Table of Contents
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Volunteer Feature:
Rocky Shepheard, artist
Rocky
is a long time friend of Dogs Deserve Better. He is a frequent
contributor of art, website and design services and has been a valued
member of Dogs Deserve Better for over five years now and hopefully for
many years more. He started his art education at the age of 8 with a 2
year correspondence course in graphic design from Famous Artists'
Schools and received a minor in medical illustration from Youngstown
State University. He has freelanced for over twenty years. Rocky
prefers to create art that is not only compelling visually but also
has political, animal rights or social importance. He's a very
skilled portrait artist as well. Rocky's online portfolio can be found
at http://www.shepheardillustration.com
 Rocky's latest creation for DDB: The 2009 Holiday Card Design!
We
are feeling particularly Angelic at DDB this year...no one got
arrested, we even caught a few bad guys ourselves...so we're
CELEBRATING with our angelic holiday greeting card! Release your Joy
this Holiday Season!
This year let's choose happiness, let's choose the vision that all dogs will be Set Free!
Get them in batches of 12, 25, 40, or 50, with price breaks as you order more. Send a humane message wrapped in a beautiful and fun greeting card this Holiday Season.
This beautiful art, donated by Rocky Shepheard, features a stained-glass look angel lovingly freeing a chained dog.
By purchasing your "Release Me" holiday cards with our message, you too will spread the word about chained dogs in a feel-good way, shining your own light this holiday season.
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The DDB Holiday Auction Will Run November 19th through November 29th
Auction
begins promptly at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the 19th, and runs through
5 p.m. Eastern Time on the 29th. Let's kick off the holidays this year
with a rocking great fundraiser! Bid often and bid high! We start all
items at $1.00 and below, just to make it funner for all to participate!
We
will roll it out before Thanksgiving, have a fun and fundraising
bidding war through the 29th, then get your winnings sent out to you in
plenty of time for your Holiday gift-giving! Questions? Call us at
814.941.7447.
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Sponsor a Fostered Formerly Chained or Penned Dog for the Holidays!
Starting
November 19th, you will be able to sponsor Formerly Chained or Penned
Foster Dogs for the Holidays. You can mail them packages, or sponsor
them online and we will provide veterinary care, and gift cards to each
dog in the program.
Each of our sponsors is in need of many
things, but toys, treats, balls, collars and leashes, and beds are
always needed by our foster parents. Get together with your student
classes, your family, your group and foster one of our dogs, you will
be glad you did!
You can also foster as holiday gifts, and we will mail a photo of your sponsored dog to your gift recipient.
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Rescue Success: Murray
The
e-mail read as such: "I am in need of someone to take a Beagle......he
is about 3 yrs old. We can no longer take care of him. The box we had
for him rotted out and we cannot afford to build/purchase a new one. We
have a canopy shelter for him for now while he was outside but we had a
humane officer here today who issued a warning for no shelter. She gave
me info for the PSPCA in Center Hall and they have a 3 week waiting
list. We have tried numerous times to get him to a shelter or humane
society and there's always a waiting list. This has been going on for
months...please help us find him a place...Read More, and see Murray's foster mom's photo blog of his first night, and his letter to his rescuers.
Make a Difference for a Chained Dog
Dear Friends,
Several months ago, Dogs Deserve Better announced the launch of their new website: unchainpadogs.com,
a site dedicated solely to promoting PA legislation to end the widely
tolerated practice of chaining dogs for life or for extended periods of
time.
More importantly, the website was created to share
information about PA House Bill 1254 and offer advocates a way to get
involved and to help move this bill forward.
Today we are asking
organizations and individuals to join the Pennsylvania Coalition to End
Tethering and help us end this inhumane practice.
We can not do this without your support and your direct involvement.
Click HERE to access the Coalition Sign Up page.
As
a coalition member, you will receive e-mail updates of legislative
activity on PA HB1254 (anti-tethering legislation) and Action Alerts
when your immediate response is needed.
Please share this e-mail with your network/cross post and help us build support.
Thank You.
Kathleen Slagle
PA Advocacy Chair
Dogs Deserve Better
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Thayne to speak in Orlando at the 11th Annual Holiday Dinner for the Animals
We are excited about this year's speaker!! Mark your calendars!
Each
year animal advocates gather for an evening of delicious Vegan food,
camaraderie, some of the best nationally known animal rights speakers,
and of course those raffle prizes!! Do not miss out on the event
that some call a "holiday tradition" in central Florida. For the 11th
anniversary celebration dinner we have some exciting things planned you
will not want to miss! This year's speaker is Tamira Thayne, founder and CEO of Dogs Deserve Better.
With
Orange county having already adopted an ordinance, and with Seminole
county adopting one very soon, we couldn't think of a more timley
speaker to speak on behalf of chained dogs in central Florida. If you
want to learn how you can help chained dogs in your community, you
won't want to miss this dinner and fundraiser for Dogs Deserve Better.
WHAT: 11th annual Holiday Dinner for the Animals
WHEN: Saturday December 12th, beginning at 6:00 PM
WHERE: Garden Café, located at 810 West Colonial Drive in downtown Orlando
COST: Tickets are $25 in advance or $35 at the door. *For reduced fee, payments must be received by December 10th.
Price includes dinner selections from 8 Vegan dishes and iced or hot tea.
All proceeds will benefit Dogs Deservfe Better.
An RSVP is required
For information please call 407-968-2400
*
IMPORTANT: Many of you know from attending past dinners that dinner is
served first and then we have the speaker. This year the speaker
will speak first and then dinner will be served. Tamira will
speak promptly at 6:30 PM. That said, we advise that you arrive
in plenty of time to get seated and checked in. Paying in advance
will also help to reserve and guarantee your spot.
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From Area Rep Amanda Barnett Green
SUCCESS!!!
The City of Hobbs, New Mexico now has a ban on fixed point chaining and
have now set the standards for more "humane" tethering systems. They
also have a tiered system set up to reclaim an animal which includes
people paying a reclaim fee of $250 if you want to get your dog back
intact or you can pay $60 and ...they
will spay and neuter it for you. IF your animal is picked up and it is
spayed or neutered, has a city license, vaccinated, and microchipped,
then you can reclaim it the first time for free.
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Giving dogs their rightful freedom chain free
by Ginnie Maurer
"For
to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way
that respects and enhances the freedom of others." (Nelson Mandela)
Dogs
don't chain themselves to trees, rusted-out cars, stakes in the ground.
Nor can they cast off these chains by themselves. We chained them; we
must free them. Not to roam aimlessly on their own. After all, we
humans domesticated them over 15,000 years ago; therefore, we are
responsible for their safety and well-being. We must unchain them and
bring them into our homes and hearts if we are to be their true
guardians.
http://www.journal-news.net/page/content.detail/id/527364.html
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From Nebraska Area Rep Gayla Hausman
After feeling so isolated in this poor, uneducated little corner of
southeast Nebraska, I'm finally getting the BEST connections. I'm
starting a campaign to "Unchain Wymore". The dogs in this town are
almost all chained and penned. I'm not kidding. I bet four out of every
five houses have chained dogs. I'm getting a swarm of volunteers and we
are going to go door to door, hand out DDB information, spay and neuter
information, offer dog food to those in need, and try to get a look at
their pets so we can identify cruelty cases, and pets in serious need
of vetting. This is a very very poor community. They desperately need
educated. I am asking the newspapers to come out and take photo's of
our efforts and run a story. I know they will do it.
So,
I sent out this information and asked some rescue people to cross post
it for me, and OMG....it has been incredible. I immediately got a call
from a gal that started a pet food bank in Lincoln, NE who offered dog
food for our cause. Yesterday I picked up at least 2100 lbs. of food!
I've also been contacted by a guy who volunteers for Hearts United. I'm
sure you have heard of them. They are national, but based about an hour
and a half from me. He is going to a meeting on Thursday and asking for
their support!!! Unreal. I've had citizens write and say they
want to help go door to door, and then another wonderful thing
happened. A woman is trying to get Cause for Paws to support me /us
financially. This woman retired and wanted to devote her life to
helping animals. So she opened a used clothing store in Lincoln, NE and
sends all proceeds to a handful of organizations. She wants to meet me
and learn about DDB!!
After feeling so isolated, and not even
being able to get someone to man my tabling events, I feel like I have
finally broke into the animal welfare association and am getting the
help I so desperately needed.
We are going to move mountains. I
now have the backing I need to move into the bigger areas like Omaha
and Nebraska. I'm so proud of what we do, and others are too. I'm so
happy to be able to finally educate and share our mission.
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The 2010 DDB Calendar is just TOO HOT for Words this Year!
Welcome to the Fifth Annual Dogs Deserve Better Calendar,
which gets rave reviews by everyone who buys or reads it. This year
we've outdone ourselves, or shall we say you've outdone yourselves! You
submitted your rescued, formerly chained or penned dogs for our
consideration, and we made every effort to get as many of their stories
and photos into our calendar as possible. And we brought on ace
designer Tracy Copes of Daft Generation to breathe new life into our calendar pages.
We've
compiled 28 dog rescue stories for you-all Happy Ending of course-and
you'll come to know the dogs in a new way as you read their touching
stories each month!
Calendars start shipping November 1, 2009. Special bulk order pricing.Makes superb holiday gifts. Order Yours NOW!
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