I saw chained dogs all around me, and there was nothing I could do about it. I couldn’t believe this kind of treatment for our ‘best friends’ was legal, but it was.
I decided I would take a stand against it, even if that stand was alone.
Now, 15 years later, enough people in Pennsylvania have stood together to convince lawmakers that chaining a dog for life is not only cruel and inhumane, but needs to be against the law.
Honestly, I’m not sure I ever thought I’d see this day.
And I don’t think it has quite sunk in yet.
But what so many of us have fought for has come to pass.
Sonny, freed from a PA chain, attended my wedding on the Capitol Steps, June 20, 2011.
Today is the Sixth Anniversary of the day I persuaded my husband to marry me while chained to a doghouse on the Pennsylvania State Capitol Steps, and I couldn’t have asked for a better Anniversary gift:
I just learned that Pennsylvania chained dogs are set to be the recipients of an anti-tethering law as part of Libre’s Law, HB 1238! Someone pinch, me, please.
Today HB 1238 passed the full Senate, after passing the House back in April. Now it’s on to the Governor’s Desk, where it’s rumored the bill will be signed into law.
Mojo, one of hundreds of chained dogs I was blessed to free as part of my work with DDB.
Our Doghouse Wedding on the PA Capitol Steps, June 20, 2011
Most of the folks who worked so hard to…
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