Send your love to a chained dog for Valentine's Day

We've all seen it - a neighborhood dog spending all of it's time chained outside without any company and sometimes barely even access to water. It's so sad. Well now you can help without any confrontation.

February 7th-14th is "Have a heart for chained dogs" week, and there's a group called Dogs Deserve Better that send out valentine's to owners of these dogs, hoping to educate them on why a dog shouldn't be chained. Yes, most people won't pay attention to this, but if the effort makes even a few dog's lives better it is worth it!

If you go to their Website it will give a detailed explanation but here's the basics. They want folks to send in mailing addresses of homes where dogs are chained. Then they will send Valentines cards along with a brochure about the problems of chaining a dog. Kids around the country volunteer to make these cards and then the group sends them out to the addresses that have been collected.

Last year 10,435 cards were sent out and this year their goal is 12,500. Either E-mail them an address at info@dogsdeservebetter.org or link to their Website and fill out an online form.

The above photo is from the Dogs Deserve Better group.