Thayne's rescue dog Miss Sugar, huddled in her doghouse in -11 wind chills, trying to survive

Miss Sugar running in the stream near her house, full of joy and brambles

Woman Undertakes 4-Day Silent Fast While Chained to Doghouse on Harrisburg Capitol Steps

Thayne endures a pounding rain on Day 9

Vigil for Law for Chained Dogs Reaches 250 Hours

Tamira Thayne, founder of the anti-chaining nonprofit organization Dogs Deserve Better, has spent 25 days—250 hours—chained to a doghouse in front of the State Capitol Building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to pass SB1435, a law which would help chained dogs.

On Day 26, Labor Day, Thayne plans to go mobile with her doghouse to reach Kipona crowds, a huge riverfront festival lasting all weekend, since the state Capitol will be quiet.

Then she will spend four days in a silent vigil and fast while chained to her doghouse at the Capitol steps. She has daily blogged, twittered, and facebooked from her chain, but internet communications, as well as speech and all food and drink except water will be cut off during those four days.

"I feel we need a spark of the divine in this mission," Thayne explains, adding that she really wants to focus her energies on bringing some Higher Help for Pennsylvania's 'Forgotten' dogs.

"Every session we fail to get legislative help for chained and abused dogs is another two years of hell they must endure. I believe that God sent me on this mission to bring help for Man's Best Friend, and I'm asking all dog lovers in Pennsylvania to join me in silence, prayer, meditation, or fasting so resolution can come quickly for these helpless creatures."

Thayne is fed up with Pennsylvania's stance when it comes to a law limiting the suffering of both the chained dogs and caring neighbors who are forced to watch the abuse without any recourse. She knows people that have moved just so they don't have to watch the suffering any longer, and questions why those who abuse their dogs have more rights than the caring neighbor next door?

She quotes a supporter, Samantha Devine, who wrote, "Why lawmakers would not pass such a law is beyond me; either they care so little as to be considered heartless or wish to appease the lowest of humanity, for no person who has known the love of a pet would willingly allow such cruelty to continue."

Thayne hopes that Pennsylvania dog lovers will continue to call members of the Senate Ag Committee during her vigil, and make plans to attend a dog rally on the steps of the Capitol September 13, 2010 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in support of anti-chaining legislation, the gas chamber bill, and puppy mill laws.

She also asks supporters to attend Mike Brubaker's town hall meeting with her September 15, 2010, from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at the Witmer Fire Protection Association, 455 Mount Sidney Rd., Witmer, PA 17585 to urge him to allow the bill out of the Ag Committee so it may go to the Senate Floor for a vote.

Contact Dogs Deserve Better at: 814.941.7447, info@dogsdeservebetter.org

Find your Senator and House Rep at: http://www.legis.state.pa.us/
Please contact them TODAY and tell them “I’m here for their law.”
Remember, they work FOR us. Insist that they support SB1435.

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Can you donate for this campaign which aims to save tens of thousands of dogs from life at the end of the chain? To donate by phone, call 814.941.7447.

Dogs Deserve Better is a 501c3 nonprofit organization.
To donate by mail, send check made out to Dogs Deserve Better,
P.O. Box 23, Tipton, PA 16684