Does Dad really need another tie this year? Why go with conventional gifts when you can Sponsor a Dog for your Holiday Gift Giving? There are 25 + dogs  this year waiting for you to share some of your holiday cheer.  

Like Haddie...look at the difference between her on the chain and  off the chain. Now that's the look of a Dogs Deserve Better dog!

Can you imagine Haddie's face when she receives her first ever gift from her special sponsor? Picture the contrast between the other holidays she's spent cold, wet, lonely suffering on the end of a chain and the one you can help provide her this year!  Like many of our  holiday dogs, Haddie is waiting for someone to choose her to  sponsor and send her a gift package. Could it be you?

Please help us make this the best holiday ever and choose a dog to  sponsor for yourself, as a family, for your friends & coworkers.    It's easy and so much fun! Just Visit the Holiday Dog Sponsor page,  choose one or more dogs to sponsor & hit the donate button under  each dog.

After that you can indicate whom you want the gift  sponsorship to be mailed to by providing the name and address of  the recipient and your name and address as the sender. Then let us do all of the work...DDB will mail out a special gift letter to  the address you provide featuring your chosen sponsored dog! If  you'd like to mail packages directly to foster parents of a certain  dog, please contact Dawn@dogsdeservebetter.org for the foster  parent's address. If you want to know what dogs still need  gifts, just ask Dawn!

The alternative gift of philanthropy is a really hip present this year, whether for you or someone else.  This is by far one of the most enjoyable and interactive programs  we offer at DDB and will be one of the most important gifts you will give this year. Sponsor a Dog for your Holiday Gift Giving!

Meet Magnum, one of the fosters you can sponsor this holiday season! This is his third year in Dogs Deserve Better Sponsor a Dog for the Holiday's program.  Magnum's foster mom tells him he's a special boy, and it would take a special home for him, which is why he's still in foster care with his mom Tamira Ci Thayne. Maggie is asking Santa for a new collar and leash (a very short leash would be good, so he can stay close to mom), a ton of treats, and a new washable bed.

Dogs Deserve Better offers an easy and fun way to give to those less fortunate this holiday season.  Each year incredibly warm-hearted people pick a dog of their choosing to sponsor, donate funds to, and send care packages to a dog in need.  All of the dogs have been rescued from neglect and abuse cases and lived isolated and chained their entire lives before being surrendered to Dogs Deserve Better.  These fosters live all over the country.  It's incredibly touching when a dog receives a gift from a sponsor parent.  Sometimes the sponsors aren't people at all, but other dogs who live happily inside a forever home and want to share with a dog less fortunate.

Families with children have an especially fun time choosing a needy dog's picture, shopping for and sending gift packages. People also donate in the name of someone else for those friends and family members who have everything and DDB sends them a personalized gift letter with a picture of their sponsored holiday dog. Sponsor a dog for your child's classroom or as a gift for a teacher. Best of all, donors get to see pictures of the sponsored dogs with their gifts that they gave them!

A BIG THANK YOU FROM THE DDB AUCTION!

A big THANK YOU to everyone who sent in items, participated in bidding and congratulations to the winners of the DDB Ebay auction!  Our own little elves at DDB Headquarters are busy sorting through and mailing out to the winners.  If this picture gives any idea to what is going on at DDB headquarters right now, it gives a whole new meaning to "working dogs".  We had over 70 items for auction this year, which was phenomenal!

Like many charitable groups, Dogs Deserve Better was hit hard by our struggling economy. As a grassroots organization without a financial pillow to fall back on we appreciate each and every effort you make to keep us going.  And we will keep going, especially now that winter is here, people are snuggled up warm inside their homes while their dogs sit isolated and freezing outside in the yard.  As the first snowflakes begin to fall and stick to the ground, our DDB team can look around our homes and see our rescued foster dogs nestled all snug in their beds and know that because of your giving and through our devotion, hands-on work and education the time will come when dogs will look back and see NO MORE CHAINS. Thank you for helping us in our journey. Donate.