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Advocate chains herself to a dog house at the Capitol to urge lawmakers to limit dog tethering [PA]
pennlive ^ | August 3, 2010 | KARI ANDREN

Posted on 08/04/2010 9:22:56 AM PDT by JoeProBono

Dog advocate Tamira Ci Thayne said she's tried for six years to get a law passed that bans chaining dogs "the nicey-nice way" and it hasn't worked. So she's taken her message to the state Capitol steps and tethered herself to a dog house to make her point.

Thayne is the head of Operation Fido's Freedom, a campaign by the advocacy organization Dogs Deserve Better, and is supporting a bill before a state Senate committee that would ban chaining dogs from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

(Excerpt) Read more at pennlive.com ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: dog; pennsylvania; tethering
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21 posted on 08/04/2010 10:45:44 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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To loosely paraphrase Forest Gump: “I’m not a smart man... but I know what ridiculous is”.


22 posted on 08/04/2010 11:24:45 AM PDT by ken in texas
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23 posted on 08/04/2010 11:27:26 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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