Unchain Your Dog

This Web site was created by two volunteers--a husband and wife team in Little Rock, Arkansas. Our journey began when we rescued Boss, a.k.a. Lucky, from a yard where he was chained to a dilapidated doghouse. Lucky had thousands of fleas running all over his body. He was fed about twice a week and rarely had water.

Lucky's eyes were totally dead when we first saw him. I will never forget the spark of life that came to his eyes when I crouched down and started talking to him. His eyes just lit right up when he received his first bit of human kindness.

Really, it was watching Lucky's eyes come to life that inspired me to start this website and advocate on behalf of chained dogs everywhere. We rescued Lucky and other chained dogs at our own expense (see below). We also installed trolleys and built fences for chained dogs.

Then we started this Web site, raised money for a local billboard, successfully lobbied for a new city law prohibiting fixed-point chaining, and raised money for and designed a brochure about the law that was mailed to all city residents in their water bill.

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This Web site was created by two volunteers--a husband and wife team in Little Rock, Arkansas. Our journey began when we rescued Boss, a.k.a. Lucky, from a yard where he was chained to a dilapidated doghouse. Lucky had thousands of fleas running all over his body. He was fed about twice a week and rarely had water.

Lucky's eyes were totally dead when we first saw him. I will never forget the spark of life that came to his eyes when I crouched down and started talking to him. His eyes just lit right up when he received his first bit of human kindness.

Really, it was watching Lucky's eyes come to life that inspired me to start this website and advocate on behalf of chained dogs everywhere. We rescued Lucky and other chained dogs at our own expense (see below). We also installed trolleys and built fences for chained dogs.

Then we started this Web site, raised money for a local billboard, successfully lobbied for a new city law prohibiting fixed-point chaining, and raised money for and designed a brochure about the law that was mailed to all city residents in their water bill.

It haunts me to think of all of the loving dogs who are living their lives at the end of a chain with no comfort. But two people can only do so much! The only way lasting change will happen is if everyone reading this decides to take just one step to help a chained dog!

Because we both have stressful full-time jobs, we don't have time to answer tons of e-mail. However, everything we know about chaining is included on this site! Feel free to drop us a line or send success stories, which we will include on this site. It's kind of fun writing a real, old-fashioned letter!

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