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,
Unchain My Heart: Dogs Deserve Better Rescue Stories of Courage, Compassion, and Caring Debuts!
40 Happy-Ending Stories from Dogs Deserve Better Reps, edited by DDB Founder Tamira Ci Thayne and Illinois Rep Dawn Ashby
Dogs Deserve Better, an award-winning nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing Man's Best Friend into the home and family, brings you 40 of its best stories, written by our own area reps, and edited by DDB founder Tamira Ci Thayne and Illinois rep Dawn Ashby.
Love
Thayne's rescue of Doogie, chained and unable to walk? Read more of the
quest for justice, in these pages. Love Rotties, Labs, Pitties, and
Beagles? German Shepherds, Heinz 57s, Chihuahuas, and Border Collies?
All these breeds and more are tucked between these pages, winning the
happy endings they deserve and the loving families they long for.
Love a book that combines dogs, courage, a willingness to fight abuse and a passion for going the extra mile? You've come to the right place.
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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DDB's "We're So Angelic" Holiday Cards 2009!
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
Do you have items valued at $10 or more to contribute?
We could use your help! Send them ASAP to:
P.O. Box 23, Tipton, PA 16684
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. |
Want to participate in our Holiday Sponsor a Dog Program?
Every
year, you all play Santa to our formerly chained or penned foster dogs.
This year, we will again take the first 30 applicants to the program,
one dog per foster parent, who will receive toys and treats from our
supporters, as well as gift cards and gifts of paid vet bills. If you
are fostering a formerly chained or penned foster dog, send your before
and after pics along with a description and your contact information to
info@dogsdeservebetter.org.
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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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Rep Spotlight · Shari Strader
I
first started with DDB when I moved to North Carolina from Atlanta
about 5 years ago. I worked with my good friend and fellow DDB Rep
Heidi in Atlanta, and after seeing the conditions here in NC--and
discovering there were no reps here in my area--I came on board.
Shari, pictured here with Dawn Ashby and Tamira Thayne, working a DDB booth.
I
work in an area where there are chained dogs everywhere. Some areas I'm
surprised if there's NOT a chained dog in the yard. So many people I
talk to say, "I can't get rid of my dog. I love my dog."
LOVE?.......what kind of love is that? How can you leave someone you
love outside in a dirt circle to live, neglected, 24 hours a day in
freezing and scorching temperatures, chained by the neck? If that's
love then I want no part of it.
This is a cause I am passionate
about and will continue to champion forever. Right now, my focus is on
changing laws because I feel that's the way to help the most animals. I
won't give up...as long as there are chained dogs out there, I'll be
there doing whatever I can to set them free.
Shari has two rescue stories featured in Unchain My Heart! They are: Donte: Breaking Chains and Breaking Curses and Wendy Fights for Wendell.
Folks Fighting for Freedom for Chained & Penned Dogs
Dear AKC:
Since
I haven't heard from you regarding my recent e-mails (I just won't go
away, will I?), I thought I'd let you know of a recent situation I just
encountered a few miles from my home where two labs are kept in a
fenced enclosure 8 feet by 8 feet. The cement floor is covered
with feces and urine, some so old there is mold growing on the
feces. The water buckets contain about 3 inches of "green"
water. When the humane officer visited, there was nothing she
could do but write a warning because there was a dog house in each pen
and "water" available. Can you believe that? Now, here's
where you come in. You see, the labs are being used as breeding
machines. One lab had teats so low they almost touched the
ground. The puppies are sold for $400-600 each making a tidy
profit for the owners who care nothing about the adult labs.
These puppies are then registered with AKC (you!) which is how you make
money off of these "miniature" puppy mills. Now we can see why
you oppose PA's proposed anti-tethering bill. You care more about
money than the dogs used as breeding machines and the unbelievable
cruelty they endure in the process! These adult labs will never
swim or feel green grass on the bottom of their feet. But you
don't care because you make money off of their inhumane conditions!!
Now,
I'll ask you once again as I have so many times before. Is there
anyone involved with AKC who reads this e-mail who has a conscience
that will respond and explain why AKC believes PA has tethering laws
that are "adequate"? Anyone at all? I'll be waiting ...
Mark Ritke
Titusville, PA 16354
What, the AKC opposes tethering laws? Oh, yeah, wait, read this article.
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On
February 2, 2009, the Cumberland County, North Caroliina, Board of
Commissioners voted unanimously for an anti-tethering ordinance, which
allows no tethering at all. Our group provides free fences, food,
shelter, rabies shots, spay and neuter to the pets of low-income
families in Cumberland County. Now that we have unchained our furry
friends, we are working to provide subsidized spay and neuter for all
who ask. (We love kitties, too.) UCC is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charity.
Our next big event is "Santa Paws". We will "adopt" twenty-five
pets and their families this Christmas. Many other animals will receive
gift bags of treats, blankets, toys and food. Our priority is Backyard
dogs.
Whatever it takes...
Shelby Townsend, Founder and Director
unchaincc.angelfire.com
910 425-0967
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Nevada: Legal changes put limits on chaining dogs
If you chain or pen your dog, a new law going into effect Thursday will affect you.One group is worried more restrictive animal laws are on the horizon.
Read more...
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Pennsylvania
Resident? We're gearing up for a grassroots legislation
campaign...please sign up for our alerts at the yellow box on our law
page:
Sign up here at the Join our PA1254 Email list...
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McKinney, TX getting onboard with anti-tethering
Unattended tethering of an animal could soon be a
finable offense in McKinney, as making that practice unlawful, except
under certain circumstances, was just one of several amendments to
McKinney's Animal Services Ordinance discussed during Tuesday's City
Council Work Session.
Read more...
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I
wanted to share a "last minute" presentation that I gave at a school in
Upstate New York. I went to visit friends and family last weekend
when my best friend from high school asked me to do a DDB presentation
for her "special needs" class. "Thanks for the notice, I
stated"!! I did not have any brochures, pamplets, or anything, so
I literally winged it! I was not going to pass up an opportunity
to educate the next generation. I had to be a little careful
because these children have "sensory" issues, so I did not want them to
break out in tears over some of the situations that we see. I
relied completely on the DDB website, I explained what we do to "help"
people make lives better for dogs that are left out on chains and in
pens, etc, etc. They were all very attentive and
responsive. I asked each and every one of them if they had
dog(s), what kind of dog, where the dog spends most of their time
etc. I then went through the website showing them the list of
Reps and that there are people all over the entire country willing to
help with situations, I then turned to the 90 dogs in 90 days and
explained the rescue of some of my situations that were posted. I
scrolled to the "mud puppies" and asked, can you tell me what you see
wrong in this picture? They all noticed the mud, how thin the
dogs were, no shelter, no water, no food, no love and that they were
isolated!!!! It felt so good to know that I connected with these
kids and they will forward their concerns to other members of their
family and community!!! If anyone knows a teacher, be it grade
school, high school, or special education, do a presentation! It
was a great feeling!
Just thought I'd share!
Melody Whitworth
DDB Rep - Columbia, Missouri
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Petition for Anti-tethering PENSACOLA, FL Please Sign, especially send to your Pensacola friends or family!
Ashley
Paige has set up a petition and hopefully before the Nov. 17 meeting we
can get lots of signatures. Please take a moment to sign this.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/help-pass-law-in-pensacola-to-stop-cruel-dog-tethering
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Asheville, NC Passes their new Law!
Check out our site for the language of the law -- we think it is one of the best in the country! www.chainfreeasheville.org.
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Nothing better than a good uprising. Let's make chain-ge for Chained Dogs!
Sincerely,
The Dogs Deserve Better Team
Dogs Deserve Better
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