How You Can Help

• Volunteer your time   
   
• Foster a formerly chained or penned dog
   
• Be a Rep for Dogs Deserve Better in your area
   
• Become a member and help us prove there is strength in numbers
   
• Help with community awareness by hanging posters or showing the chained dog video
   
• Wear one of our colorful t-shirts
   
• Apply a sticker or magnet to your window/car to educate and provoke thought in others  
   
• Place brochures and doorhangers throughout the community
   
• Take a stand when you see dogs living chained or penned. Speak gently to the caretakers, sharing your convictions and information about Dogs Deserve Better and ways they can improve life for their companion. Print out this chained dog flyer or .pdf letter in which we request that they rethink their decision. (Please, do NOT put letters directly in mailboxes, it is a violation of US Postal Code. Instead, check out our door hangers which can be hung over mailbox flags.) Now available for penned dogs, and in Spanish as a Spanish flyer and Spanish letter.
   
• If you are not comfortable approaching caretakers of chained dogs or penned dogs, use the doorhangers or email us with the names and addresses of the caretakers (as well as any other information you have about the dog's breed, weight, age, temperment, etc.), and we will send information in the mail. You will remain anonymous.
   
• Donate to our cause. Help us eliminate chaining, and substitute a kinder, more loving life for our best friends!   Simply click here to donate at the DDB National Site. Please specify "For use of Dogs Deserve Better NOVA" to keep your donation local.
   
• You can also donate by sending a check to:

I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
--Edward Everett Hale