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TAMIRA THAYNE - An Amazing Advocate For Dogs!Founder of Dogs Deserve Better!
By Tamira Thayne
There comes a day when you say "Enough is Enough," and August 2, 2010 was that day for me, at least when it came to the Pennsylvania law for chained dogs we've been working to get passed for six years. Six years! During that time many dogs, including this precious white boy, have died while waiting for help, and the sense of urgency I felt was like none other. What could I do to dig up some chaos and get people excited and eager about calling their senators and house reps to demand chain-ge for chained dogs? I know if we don't get this law passed before the end of session, the dogs would be waiting another two years minimum while we started from scratch, and the frustration of knowing the fate of 'my' dogs-the chained ones-rested in the hands of lawmakers really stuck in my craw. Trouble was, nothing we'd done was working, and bills languished in both the House and the Senate committees, with the members feeling no compulsion to get them out onto the floor for a vote. So I pulled up my doghouse and chain to the front of the Capitol Building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and vowed to stay awhile. I will probably be chained over 50 days, ten hours a day, each and every Monday through Friday before we either win this law or go down in a blaze of glory. I have already endured torrential rains that flooded the city-sending fire engines scurrying about town- and me without an umbrella. I have endured a week of days so hot, that no day was below 90 and climbing to 99 degrees on other days. The heat became so unbearable I daren't sit on the cement, and I couldn't find a speck of shade to shield my body. I paced relentlessly to distract myself from the sweat pouring down my back and the misery of my very existence. I have been yelled at, cussed out, belittled. I've also been lauded, praised, and thanked. Yet the gratitude I most crave will be in the eyes of man's best friend when I bring him the gift of freedom. The last time I left home to return to Harrisburg for the week, my fosters Banshee and Miss Sugar followed me into the bathroom. I gave them both huge hugs, and told them I was sorry I had to leave again so soon, but I was doing it for all their brothers and sisters still stuck out there on chains and needing my help. They came to the fence and watched me go, a look of sadness in their eyes. I was sad too, because I missed them already. Yet I was determined that ALL Dogs Deserve Better than life on a chain. I went off to get that for them. Tamira Ci Thayne is the founder and CEO of Dogs Deserve Better, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to freeing Man's Best Friend from the life of misery on the end of a chain and bringing him into the home and family. For more information or to make a donation: |
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