DDB’s
Making Plans for a New Rehabilitation
and Training Center for
Chained Dogs
How
Can You Help Make our Dream a Reality?
One
possible Design Style, illustrated by Tracy Copes
Dogs
Deserve Better, now in our 7th year of advocating for chained
and penned dogs, has started planning for a Rescue, Rehabilitation,
and Training Center for formerly chained and penned dogs.
In our efforts for these
dogs, we are currently fostering and rehoming as many as 700-1000
dogs per year. When working with dogs who’ve spent
their lives outside, our biggest task is to train them to live
inside the home with the family. With that in mind, it is not
in the dog’s best interest for
us to build a typical shelter. We must be working to
housetrain the dogs and teach them the ways of inside living.
So we will build a more advanced facility with living areas,
training areas, humane education room.
To that end, we visualize a center
that will house 16-24 dogs at a time, in 2-3 separate living
areas. Each dog will have access to inside and outside areas,
and they will be trained with the other dogs and trainers each
day.
Current estimated budget is 1.9
million dollars, if we can get the land donated. We are open
to exploring options of building the center in any state in the
country, so if you have land which you think might suite our
purposes and you're willing to let us look at the possibility,
please contact us immediately at 814.941.7447.
We are seeking bequest
donations,
as well as donations of at least 10-20 acres of land, and are currently looking to relocate to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia or vicinity.
Interested in helping a project of this magnitude get off the
ground, even bear your name? Please call Tamira Thayne, DDB founder,
at 814.941.7447 if you can help.
All major donations toward this
center are welcome. If
you’re a financial supporter of our work here at Dogs Deserve
Better and you can’t
give a larger amount for the center, the best way you can help
to ensure we build the center and our dream is to continue your
financial support for our normal daily operations, which includes
vet care for rescued dogs, fencing for dogs brought into the
home to live, and education materials for our efforts....if we
cannot continue our normal daily operations we will not be here
to start a center; so, continuing to support our daily operation
budget is absolutely crucial and the best way to see our group
vision become a reality! Thank you. |
Give
dogs like Levi a place to call home!
The Importance of Membership
I'm
only just now realizing how important membership is to
Dogs Deserve Better as an organization. To you it may
add up to a donation with a few side benefits, but to us it provides
some measure of sway with the media and other organizations.
We’re frequently asked what our membership is, and our
immediate goal is to double our membership, from 3500 to 7000
(or 100,000, we don't want to limit ourselves)...the
greater numbers we show behind our efforts, the more seriously
our efforts will be taken.
Please
join today, and ask your family and friends to join, too.
Together we can show the world that we expect chaining to end!
Supporting
Memberships
Yes,
I want to be a supporting member of the Dogs Deserve Better team! Here is my annual donation to help rescue and shelter needy chained
and penned dogs, as well as to educate the public and push toward
legislative efforts to protect these dogs.
Student
Annual Membership $15.00*
You'll
Receive a Membership Card and our Quarterly Newsletter |
Senior
Annual Membership
$15.00*
You'll
Receive a Membership Card and our Quarterly Newsletter
Silver
Annual Membership
$25.00*
You'll
Receive a Membership Card,
our Quarterly Newsletter and a Bumper Sticker
Gold
Annual Membership
$50.00*
You'll
Receive a Membership Card, our Quarterly Newsletter,
a Bumper Sticker, and two Posters
Platinum
Annual Membership
$100.00*
You'll
Receive a Membership Card, our Quarterly Newsletter,
a Bumper Sticker and a Dogs Deserve Better T-Shirt
Diamond
Annual Membership
$500.00*
You'll
Receive a Membership Card, our Quarterly Newsletter,
a Car Magnet and a Dogs Deserve Better T-Shirt
Benefactor
Annual Membership
$1000.00*
You'll
Receive a Membership Card, our Quarterly Newsletter,
a Car Magnet, Certificate, and a Dogs Deserve Better T-Shirt
Printable
Membership form in .pdf
We
can now accept donations over the phone
using a major credit card at 1.877.636.1408. If
you'd like to donate via regular USPS mail, you may print
out this
form in .pdf
format, and send to P.O. Box 23, Tipton, PA 16684 |
