Volunteer                  

Make a difference today!!  Below are some of volunteer opportunities.  Please complete this FORM so that we may match your needs with the needs of DDB.
 

1.  Get DDB brochures from your DDB Area Rep and put them out in your area, vets offices, restaurants, travel plazas or print our your own if you'd like, using this .pdf file.


2.  Get laws passed.


3.  Buy (very inexpensive!) and hang our 11x17 posters in your area. They will hold up well in the outdoors, in the rain and snow as they are high quality press run or print your own (to the left) 


4.  Become a corporate sponsor.


5.   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.   If the thought of face to face scares you, buy some doorhangers which you can hang on mailboxes or car or house doors. or contact your DDB Area Rep for doorhangers. You can also print them out and make your own, instructions on the doorhanger page. Also available, letter for  penned dogs.


6.  Fence a yard for a dog, get donated material, get others to help you put it in.


7.  Get donations or negotiate a free billboard in your local area with our billboard designs.


8.  Advocacy Group Leaders for each area of the NRV to be the eyes and ears of DDB.

Advocacy Group responsibilities:
- Recruit team members
- Hang posters
- Disperse brochures to local    businesses
- Disperse and manage collection can at local businesses
- Hand out/mail 'You've Been Spotted' cards. These cards are to thank people who are seen being good dog owners and asking them to join our cause.
- Report to DDB of Giles, VA chained, penned, abused, neglected dogs
- ONLY IF YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE, hang door hangers
- Spearhead letter writing campaigns. We will soon be sending packets to our Board of Supervisors and local law enforcement asking to adopt a limited chaining/penning ordinance. After the packets go out, we would like for you to organize a letter writing/email/phone call campaign in your area asking they support such an ordinance. In addition, the VA DDB reps will be meeting this fall. We will be organizing our state campaign at this time.
- Gather support for attendance at any board meetings where the limited chaining ordinance is being discussed.

**We will provide all supplies and postage

We would LOVE to have advocacy groups in every county of the NRV.

9.  Become a DDB Area Rep



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DOGS DESERVE BETTER is a nonprofit organization
dedicated to freeing the chained dog, and bringing
our 'best friend' into the home and family.

Dogs Deserve Better, 2003 First Place Winner of the ASPCA/Chase Pet Protector Award, is a voice for chained and penned dogs, whose sadness speaks only through the eyes. As the days become years, many of these dogs sit, lay, eat, and defecate within the same 10-foot radius. Chained by the neck, they exist without respect, love, exercise, social interaction, and sometimes even basic nourishment. They live as prisoners, yet long to be pets.


Our Sponsors




Tyrone, PA Dog Case

Other Opportunities

 Do you want to use your professional skills to help make a difference in the lives of chained dogs?

We are looking for talented and dedicated professional people to take on the following volunteer roles, as well as a volunteer coordinator for each category:


Public and Media Relations people - Help bring public attention to the chaining issue and DDB by being a public relations and/or media contact for us. You should have experience with soliciting media coverage, talking and writing to the media via press releases and personal interviews. Radio and/or television experience would be welcomed!

Legislative Lobbyers - Do you have connections in local government and/or knowledge of how to get laws passed in your community? Then, we need your help desperately! This is where we can make the most difference - in getting anti-chaining laws passed! Please help put DDB out of business forever!


Transporters - We need help with transporting rescued dogs. If you feel you can take on a leg of a journey and don't mind getting a little mud in your car, then please contact us! We sometimes transport dogs cross-country and really need volunteer drivers. Gas and mileage is tax deductible, so not only are you helping a dog on his way to a better life, you get to write it off!

Vet Care and Advice - Vet care is expensive and dogs rescued from the chain often need a lot of it! De-worming, shots, neutering and spaying, microchipping and taking care of wounds received from being outside 24/7 are just some of the vet services that we need donated. If you are a vet that that has seen one too many chains embedded in necks, or nails grown so long they curl, then please consider helping us get these dogs the care they so desperately need at a discounted or free rate.

Billboard and Bus Advertising Sponsorship - If you have contacts in this business and would like to help us by donating billboard or bus ad space, we would love to hear from you! Thousands of people a month will see the message that chaining or penning dogs 24/7 is wrong. This would also be a tax deductible donation and all artwork will be donated free of charge by the founder of DDB, Tamira Ci Thayne.

 
Shannon E. Allen, DDB Representative - NRV Virginia
SERVING PULASKI, GILES, MONTGOMERY, CRAIG, AND FLOYD