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Capitol in Chains: 54 Days of the Doghouse Blues
In August 2010, one woman got up the guts to carry a doghouse and chain to the Pennsylvania Capitol steps and chain herself in support of a law for chained dogs.
Not knowing if she'd be arrested, ignored, or ridiculed, she did it anyway—for the dogs who have no voice and whose needs are neglected by those with the power to make chain-ge in their lives.
This is her story, and the story of the 54 days she and others who stood beside her spent chained at the bottom of the Capitol steps in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. May you be inspired, entertained, and educated about the needs of Man's Best Friend, and how these needs continue to be ignored in today's society.
Tamira Thayne is founder and CEO of Dogs Deserve Better, a national nonprofit organization which advocates solely on behalf of chained and penned dogs.
Not knowing if she'd be arrested, ignored, or ridiculed, she did it anyway—for the dogs who have no voice and whose needs are neglected by those with the power to make chain-ge in their lives.
This is her story, and the story of the 54 days she and others who stood beside her spent chained at the bottom of the Capitol steps in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. May you be inspired, entertained, and educated about the needs of Man's Best Friend, and how these needs continue to be ignored in today's society.
Tamira Thayne is founder and CEO of Dogs Deserve Better, a national nonprofit organization which advocates solely on behalf of chained and penned dogs.
248 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 30, 2011
About the author
Tamira Ci Thayne
11 books8 followersTamira Thayne is the author of The Wrath of Dog, The King’s Tether, Foster Doggie Insanity, and Capitol in Chains, and the co-editor of Unchain My Heart and Rescue Smiles.
Tamira pioneered the anti-tethering movement in America, forming and leading the nonprofit Dogs Deserve Better for 13 years. During her time on the front lines of animal activism and rescue she took on plenty of bad guys (often failing miserably); her swan song culminated in the purchase and transformation of Michael Vick’s dogfighting compound to a chained-dog rescue and rehabilitation center.
Tamira’s spent 878 hours chained to a doghouse on behalf of the voiceless in front of state capitol buildings nationwide, and worked with her daughter to take on a school system’s cat dissection program, garnering over 100,000 signatures against the practice.
In 2016 she founded Who Chains You, publishing books by and for animal activists and rescuers.
Tamira pioneered the anti-tethering movement in America, forming and leading the nonprofit Dogs Deserve Better for 13 years. During her time on the front lines of animal activism and rescue she took on plenty of bad guys (often failing miserably); her swan song culminated in the purchase and transformation of Michael Vick’s dogfighting compound to a chained-dog rescue and rehabilitation center.
Tamira’s spent 878 hours chained to a doghouse on behalf of the voiceless in front of state capitol buildings nationwide, and worked with her daughter to take on a school system’s cat dissection program, garnering over 100,000 signatures against the practice.
In 2016 she founded Who Chains You, publishing books by and for animal activists and rescuers.
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July 20, 2019
I think she convinced me we need chaining laws. Was well written.
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