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 Rocky,
Oh, My, My! Who went Shopping with $10,000 and bought 100 $100 Gift Cards? We did, that's who!
Santa
Paws matched all $100 sponsors from December 1 through the 15th...as a
result, we were able to give to EVERY SINGLE DOG in the DDB Foster
Program, 116 Dogs!
Make sure to Watch the New Story
of Tami Purchasing the Gift Cards
Thanks
to everyone who donated for another wonderful Holiday
Sponsor-A-Formerly-Chained-or-Penned-but-Now-Free-and-Lovin'-Life
Program! What a year we've had! More successes with law changes, fences
built, dogs rescued, people and society educated...and much more you
can read about all over our site...and of course, another successful
Holiday Event! And...A Very,
Very Special Thanks to "Santa Paws," an anonymous Texas donor who
matched every donor of $100 or more from Dec 1st to Dec 15th! We are so
grateful to her for her wonderful generosity. As a result, we
were able to provide three times as many gift cards as the previous
year! Here's to you "Santa Paws." Bless you, and everyone who stepped
up to the challenge and sponsored $100! Don't
forget to get your Calendar and Unchain My Heart Packages as your
Holiday gift to YOURSELF and provide for chained dogs with the proceeds!
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!We're already getting rave reviews from our readers, so Order now. Unchain My Heart is also available bundled with other DDB books Scream Like Banshee, Puddles on the Floor, and/or the D DB 2010 Calendar to Save between $5.00-$10.00 per Bundle! View the Table of Contents
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DDB's "Forgotten"
Revised, with an Awesome Video Compilation by Isaiah Allen
Stats from a 12-state tour by Dogs Deserve Betters Tamira Thayne
and Dawn Ashby indicate there are as many as 6,000,000 chained and
penned dogs nationwide in America. This video compilation by Isaiah
Allen speaks to the issue and what Dogs Deserve Better is doing to help
bring man's best friend out of the backyard and into the home and
family. This video can be purchased as part of an educational DVD for
sale on the Dogs Deserve Better site at http://www.dogsdeservebetter.org/forg...
Special
thanks to Aden Ryan for consulting and media work, and Susan Hartland
for project oversight. Extra special thanks to Isaiah Allen for all the
volunteer hours put into this production for you.
Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhoYSP9UDmI
Revised video also features Closer, by Aubrie Kavanaugh, watch it on the web here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcd3Nj1Db9Q
Includes all of the following:
1.
A broad overview of the issue, what DDB does to help and what
you can do for the chained dogs near you.
2.
Footage and overview of the 12-state tour
in April 2008 completed by DDB's Ashby and Thayne. Professional level
editing and graphics by Isaiah Allen with Aden Ryan. Project management
by Susan Hartland.
3.
Footage of the 2009 Chain Off.
4.
The Doogie Story.
5.
A 3-minutes song compilation.
6.
Buster Goes Home story and footage.
7. Closer, by Aubrie Kavanaugh.
8. 6 Million Dogs PSA.
Approximately
37 minutes total, our presentation will be perfect for humane
education (grades 4 and up), booths and shows, and group programs. Buy it at: http://www.dogsdeservebetter.org/forgottendvd.html
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The Dogs Deserve Better Credit Card is Continuing to Give Back for our Efforts!
You've raised $969 by choosing your DDB Credit Card this year! Thank you to all who've started using it, and allowing your cash back to go to the dogs. We appreciate you greatly.
Get Yours Now!
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Make a Difference for a Chained Dog
DDB makes a Guidepost Blog on chaining:
http://www.guideposts.com/blog/woof-chained-dogs-unhappy
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Hi All,
I
am an American living in a rural pueblo in Mexico, and I have been on
your mailing list for a couple years now. I have two wonderful,
cherished well-cared for dogs of my own and it saddens me deeply to see
that the Mexican idea of animal care is far sub-standard to that in the
U.S. (If you think things are bad there, you should try visiting here.)
I try to do what I can in terms of talking with my neighbors and people
I meet who have dogs and illustrating daily examples of caring for my
own dogs - walking them on the neighborhood streets, letting them run
free in the yard, demonstrating affection and obedience, etc.
My
next-door neighbor is a machinist who has a shop adjacent to his home.
He has a three-year old German Shepherd and a younger Mexican mutt that
have been chained up since they were very small puppies. I have made
many advances towards my neighbor in hopes of educating him, such as
offering him a bag of treats for his dogs and mentioning how important
it is for dogs that they exercise. (The dogs were very aggressive, so I
never offered to walk them myself.) I avoided any judgmental
statements, as he is a Mexican man and I am a gringa (American) woman,
and I know the culture here does not promote treating animals well. We
have maintained a cordial relationship, but I always felt sad that he
wasn't doing the right thing for his dogs. (He also had a pregnant
horse that was penned in a tiny space barely big enough for her to turn
around, and I encouraged him to put her in a bigger space where she
could roam free, which he actually did do.)
Basically, I had
given up that the situation for the dogs would ever change, but I
thought of them often and would constantly send them love, affection
and freedom in their hearts. My mind was completely blown away today
when I returned home and there was a brand new fence around his machine
shop area, and the dogs were inside, roaming free unchained. I screamed
out my window (in Spanish, of course), "It's fantastic that your dogs
are outside - my heart feels much, much better!" and he smiled and
nodded at me. The next time I go to town, I am going to get a big bag
of dog treats (and some baked goods for him and his family) and
reiterate how tremendous it is that he has made such a change.
Regardless of why he did the right thing, the important thing is that
he did it.
If it hadn't been for you all, especially Tamira, I
never would have had the courage to speak up or hope that I could make
a difference in this situation. I am too poor monetarily to donate to
your organization, but I want you to know that I support what you do
with every fiber of my being. (I also vote for you every day on the
Animal Rescue Site Shelter Challenge.)
Blessings and Love,
Lisa Williamson
Higuera Blanca, Nayarit, Mexico
(1+ hour north of Puerto Vallarta)
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Laws in the Works or Recently Passed
Huntington
City Council (WV) just passed an ordinance that prohibits dog tethering
unless the guardian directly supervises his or her dog!!!-Capri
Holderby, DDB West Virginia Area Representative
Pecos Dog Owners Debate No Chaining Proposalhttp://www.newswest9.com/Global/story.asp?S=11659829
Anti-tethering ordinance wins approval from Salt Lake County Council
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=9043867
Could dog-control laws avert future tragedy?http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/could-dog-control-laws-avert-future-tragedy/1060125
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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!
Order Yours NOW!
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