Role Models

It’s Your Turn!

I see a dog, and my heart breaks into a million tiny pieces that fall at my feet as teardrops. The dog is skin and bones, and his spirit is completely shattered. The dog has been beaten, tortured, and starved. The dog has been subjected to the bone-chilling cold, the scorching heat. The dog knows all too well the feeling of hunger, pain, and suffering.

 

Tamira Thayne

Dogs Deserve Better, a nonprofit dedicated to ending the chaining of dogs and bringing man’s best friend into the home and family, has been actively rescuing, fostering, and re-homing chained dogs nationwide since its inception in 2002.

 

NATALIA VILLAVECES

Natalia Villaveces—writer, producer, actress, and television host for the Telemundo series Nitido—miraculously finds time in her schedule to be a strong advocate for animals. Having grown up spending a great deal of time on her grandmother’s farm, feeding the resident cows, chickens, pigs, horses, and donkeys, she was always an animal lover. When other girls her age were playing with dolls, Natalia wanted nothing more than to be surrounded by animals.

 

MIKE ARMS

When I was growing up, I didn’t know that I had a deep love for animals, but I always knew that I liked them and would never dream of harming one. Right out of school, I found myself in New York where an employment agency convinced me that I should start my career working at an animal organization.

 

Ashley Owen Hill

Ashley Owen Hill has been rescuing dogs since she was five years old. Now, as President of Lucky Dog Rescue and the owner of Lucky Dog Retreat Boarding Kennel in Meridian, Mississippi, she looks back through the years at her natural affinity for helping animals...

 

JUSTICE FOR BELLA

In sociology, a tipping point is defined as an event in which a previously rare phenomenon becomes dramatically more common. In epidemiology, it is the concept that small changes will have little or no effect on a system until a critical mass is reached. Then a further small change “tips” the system and a large effect is observed.

 
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