Category: Chaining

After citizens in Weldon, North Carolina, expressed concerns about the suffering of chained dogs in their community, town officials took decisive action.

You’ll never guess who was left out in this winter’s record-breaking cold: the tiniest dogs. And here are three who survived.

It was a long time coming, but a neglected Doberman mix finally got a happy ending.

Ride along with a PETA fieldworker as she delivers straw to keep a sweet momma dog warm and rescues a puppy named JoJo. Warning: extreme cuteness ahead!

PETA’s social media team went out into the field to help some of the saddest animals in the world: forgotten “backyard dogs.”

Based on evidence provided by PETA, a judge has forbidden the owner of a starving pit bull from having another dog—ever again.

Whether it’s Christmas, New Year’s Day, or a Saturday when the temperatures have dipped below freezing, PETA staffers and volunteers are outside delivering dry, fluffy straw bedding and warm wooden doghouses to “backyard dogs” who are forced to spend the holidays—and every day in between—outside and alone. In 2021, we delivered 160 doghouses and almost … Read more »

Turning their backs on Black Friday deals, a group of PETA volunteers decided to spend their day on the lookout for cold, lonely, and forgotten “backyard dogs.”

A shocking case of alleged child abuse inspires a PETA anti-chaining campaign.

Rain, snow, hurricanes, sweltering summer heat waves, sub-freezing temperatures during winter cold snaps, and floodsyou name it, and Itchy has survived it all.

A simple dog biscuit was all it took to make Sparkles wiggle with joy.

You don’t have to have the magic of Santa Claus to help a chained dog. PETA offers a