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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79901076379718412992011-08-02T13:02:48.285+12:00Prisoners 2 Pets NZRaising awareness of the plight of chained and caged dogs in New ZealandPrisoners 2 Pets NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433486390525161016noreply@blogger.comBlogger121100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990107637971841299.post-63020945047720497732011-03-02T06:04:00.000+13:002011-03-02T06:04:57.123+13:00Dogs bark don’t they?

Well, yes they do, but a well cared for dog, kept indoors as part of your family, doesn’t bark for hours. If you are keeping your dog outside, on a chain or in a cage, and it barks or whines or howls for hours, it is trying to tell you something. It is trying to tell you that it is suffering from being kept in these cruel conditions. If you were kept in the same kind of conditions, wouldn’t you

Prisoners 2 Pets NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433486390525161016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990107637971841299.post-86679306704600098932011-01-15T11:55:00.000+13:002011-01-15T11:55:26.299+13:00The Christmas Puppy

The Christmas Puppy Two weeks before Christmas: "We'll get a cute puppy for Christmas. The kids will love it, and it can be our guard dog." Two weeks after Christmas: "That bad puppy is always chewing our stuff, and biting the kids. It's a nuisance. Perhaps we should keep it outside in a kennel and run when we can't watch it." Three weeks after Christmas: "Time to go back to work. Puppy

Prisoners 2 Pets NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433486390525161016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990107637971841299.post-14621708183285267832010-10-24T07:04:00.000+13:002010-10-24T07:04:41.824+13:00Good dog owners don't keep their dog in a dunny

People keep telling me the same sad story, that there are many 'good dog owners' who keep their dogs outside in a kennel and run. The kennel and run is essentially the equivalent of a bed in a tiny shed, and a toilet area. How can it possibly be good to keep a dog in such a tiny area where it has to sleep and sit so close to its latest doggy doo deposit for as long as it takes for the owner to

Prisoners 2 Pets NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433486390525161016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990107637971841299.post-42978243457991147662010-09-19T07:11:00.002+12:002010-09-19T07:13:01.167+12:00She waits, she waits and waits, no-one comes

She is desperately hungry, but no-one comes with food. She is desperately thirsty, but no-one comes with water. She is desperately cold, but no-one comes with even a blanket for her. Who is she? She is a 4 month old puppy on a chain in a suburban garden, somewhere in New Zealand. She is sporadically fed, her water bowl occasionally filled, her shelter, an old woodshed. She stares at the door

Prisoners 2 Pets NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433486390525161016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990107637971841299.post-46325641677668986982010-05-23T06:47:00.004+12:002010-05-23T06:50:02.483+12:00Dog Kennel and Sit

Many poor dogs in New Zealand spend their lives imprisoned in a cage, called, entirely inaccurately, a dog kennel and run. The average dog, indeed even the smallest dog, cannot possibly run in the space provided. Only the fleas would get a good run in such a small space. Often the cage is only three or four times the size of its imprisoned occupant. You would not see an animal as large as a dog

Prisoners 2 Pets NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433486390525161016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990107637971841299.post-61071722931693152742010-04-17T08:12:00.001+12:002010-04-17T08:12:43.319+12:00Chained dogs are more dangerous

The movement to unchain dogs in America keeps growing. The organisation 'Unchain Pennsylvania Dogs' now has a new website. Here is a quote from it's front page: 'A study by the Centers for Disease Control, "Which Dogs Bite?" found that chained dogs are 2.8 times more likely to bite. The dogs most likely to bite are male, unneutered, and chained.' This cruel treatment of dogs, keeping them

Prisoners 2 Pets NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433486390525161016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990107637971841299.post-85412593355813805492010-01-07T14:56:00.000+13:002010-01-07T14:56:10.158+13:00An invitation from 'Dogs Deserve Better'

Every February our organization does an education/advocacy blitz by organizing a “Have A Heart For A Chained Dog” campaign. Last year 12,113 Valentine cards were hand-made and mailed to chained dogs across the world. If you would like to read more about our February campaign you can visit http://www.dogsdeservebetter.org/vdaywrap2009.html This campaign is paramount in educating the community,

Prisoners 2 Pets NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433486390525161016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990107637971841299.post-44290130913892043712009-10-25T11:01:00.003+13:002009-10-25T11:10:21.595+13:00The sounds of suffering

How would you know whether there are dogs suffering from being kept in cruel conditions in your neighbourhood? Well, you might see them. Some dogs kept permanently on chains or in tiny cages, are kept in view of neighbours or passers-by, and if you see the same dog confined by a chain or in a cage, in the same place day after day, at all different hours, then you are looking at a dog kept in

Prisoners 2 Pets NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433486390525161016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990107637971841299.post-20840759579867075052009-08-10T06:37:00.003+12:002009-08-10T06:52:05.903+12:00Horrific News Story about a Chained Dog

A dog called Missy suffered horrific abuse on a chain, so severe that the Rotorua Daily Post considered the photos too graphic to publish.Missy has been healed and rehomed by the Rotorua SPCA, so her story has a happy ending, but even as you read this, there are thousands of other dogs in suburban gardens all over New Zealand who are suffering the cruelty of living tied on a chain. Dogs on chains

Prisoners 2 Pets NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433486390525161016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990107637971841299.post-26114854851119949372009-07-21T07:17:00.001+12:002009-07-21T07:25:19.760+12:00Your dog is too big to live in the garden

People say “My dog is too big to live in the house. He’s an outdoor dog. Then they keep him 24/7 in a tiny cage he can only just move around in. This doesn’t make sense. A big dog is too big to live in a tiny cage. If you made a cage the right size for him, you’d need a cage the size of your whole garden. Better still, make the prisoners 2 pets transition and bring your dog in to live in the

Prisoners 2 Pets NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433486390525161016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990107637971841299.post-31614372682097307722009-07-11T10:46:00.002+12:002009-07-11T10:56:50.589+12:00Registration. It’s worth doing.

Your children have to be ‘registered’, your car has to be registered, indeed even you yourself must be ‘registered’ in order to be part of society and enjoy all its benefits, so why not your dogs? Registration is a way to be included in society, without registration you, your children, and your dogs, are outcasts and many doors are closed to you, and many valuable resources denied to you. So

Prisoners 2 Pets NZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01433486390525161016noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7990107637971841299.post-16338851181281139942009-07-10T11:19:00.003+12:002009-07-10T11:31:30.296+12:00Bring your dog indoors tonight

The winter weather we have right now in New Zealand, with bitterly cold nights, is much too cold for a dog on a chain, or in a tiny, unheated cage. Left outside in such conditions, your dog will be suffering, so bring your dog indoors tonight, and every winter night.

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