Dogs Deserve Better
Dogs have lived alongside humans for thousands of years, yet too many continue to experience preventable suffering because of outdated practices, inadequate protections, and systems that fail to fully account for their physical, behavioral, and emotional wellbeing.
For generations, enormous effort has gone into responding once dogs are already in crisis. Rescue, sheltering, adoption, and enforcement against serious cruelty all play important roles. But responding to individual cases alone cannot resolve the conditions that allow these problem to persist.
Dogs Deserve Better is Defend Them All’s effort to examine the laws, policies, institutional practices, human behaviors, incentives, and resource gaps that contribute to poor welfare in the first place, and identify practical ways to improve the wellbeing of dogs.
About the Dogs Deserve Better Initiative
Dogs Deserve Better starts from the premise that better human decisions can lead to better lives for dogs.
Rather than assume that one solution will work everywhere, we look at the particular challenges dogs face and the human choices, policies, practices, and systems that influence their wellbeing.