We dedicate our lives to chained dog awareness
The Chained Dog Awareness NZ Charitable Trust (CDANZ) is a registered organization (CC37098) built to educate the owners of chained dogs and to re-home and rehabilitate those that are rescued..
We are small group of volunteers who are working hard to end the life-chaining of dogs in NZ by creating awareness, working with dog-owners, advocating for changes to welfare legislation and basically helping the animals we come across in any way we can!
What is a chained dog?
- Water is rarely provided
- The dog has little suitable shelter
- Food is provided when and if the “owner” remembers
- The dog is never de-fleaed or de-wormed
- The dog is not registered, vaccinated, microchipped or de-sexed due to lack of funds therefore it is chained or locked out of sight.
- Faeces are rarely removed from underfoot
- They have little or no human interaction
- They are never exercised and the owners have no collars or leads to do so
- Generation after generation see chaining as “normal”
- There is total ignorance of what a dog needs
Building chain dog awareness in NZ:
As a result the average chained dog’s lifespan is approx. 18 months due to a combination of things such as long-term dehydration, malnutrition, pest infestation, blood poisoning, multiple pregnancies, lack of exercise and no medical attention or care.
Every breed of dog from big dogs to tiny lap dogs are chained; behind garages, under hedges, on rubbish heaps, scraps of wood, concrete or on dirt, locked under houses never to see daylight, walk on grass or experience human company ever again.
They are silent, they never bark and without seeing them you would never know they are there. Some are used as breeding machines and there are literally thousands of them.
