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An animal living chained that is not seen is doomed to that life for the remainder of its days.

This is a public tool to help these animals. It is probably true publicity discourages bad habits. But many of us are simply interested in bringing these animals some food and some company.

This database is designed to be self-managed by the community of users. We encourage everyone to contribute and make of this database something helpful.

Helpful for animals living chained in the middle of nowhere for years, to supposedly look after some property. Helpful for the ones who care about them. Helpful also to discourage land owners to continue with this heartless practice.

HOW TO USE IT

You can help these animals by reporting their location. You can also confirm other people's reports so anybody can see if those animals are still there. But also you can contribute to delete outdated reports if the animal was finally removed from that place.

Just load this web site in a mobile device with location services enabled, and follow the instructions you'll find there.

Basically in order to make a new report / confirm an existing one / or reject someone else's (because it doesn't exist anymore / you can't find it / it was a fake report) you'll have to go to that specific spot and then use the web site in your mobile device.

This service has been designed to work best in countryside and open areas. It can probably be used also in urban areas, but we don't expect it to work as well there. We'll see, it's a first step anyway.

The desktop version is at the moment for consultancy only.

WHY BETA

We've made this service public very recently and for the first few months we need to see what sort of welcome it has and if people find it useful.

Therefore we've included a number of very specific features for this testing time.

For example, there's no user login as we want to maximize people able to contribute and we feel anonymity will encourage them to be more active. We are aware of the issues around this but we believe it gives us more positive points at this stage as we want to grow now, and there's also the power of the community to assess the validity of all this data. We expect to be adding 'trusted users' at some point when (with your support) we get to the next phase.

There's also a good number of test reports in place partially for testing purposes but also to help the site take off. These are very easy to spot as they are painted in gray and follow a square pattern. Don't worry about these, they'll be removed when we move to the next stage. We expect this to happen as soon as possible. You can contribute to them however as part of the testing phase and if any of those happen to be real, it will stay.

HOW TO SUPPORT

Our aim is to keep the site going and the data available 24/7 but our resources are very limited.

You may find the site sometimes slow or some other times unresponsive. Think of that when you see some ads around: we're really on a budget.

We have our dayjobs but made this site because we wanted it to exist. But we can't invest in huge infrastructure to make it super available and fast responsive. Maybe we can only afford a budget hosting, but this service is still valuable to us and we'll look after this database for as long as we can.

You can help us improve things. You can help us make this site stronger and faster, more available everywhere and to everyone, and incorporate features you think may be useful. We expect to add soon channels of communication to allow more interaction.

Support us to make all that possible. Any help is greatly appreciated.

ABOUT US

We are very few at the moment. We want to be thousands.

We are crazy dreamers trying to make the world a bit better in our free time.

This doesn't mean we'll make it, but it makes us happy that at least we tried.

Please send us any comments, suggestions or issue reports to: hello@dogsinchains.com

Acknowledgements

By now it should be clear we don't have any artists at hand so we had to borrow some resources from here and there, that others with much better artistic skills and a lot of altruism made available for the public. But it is the right thing to mention them and thank them in this section.

Huge thanks to all of you!! and if anyone wants their resource out of this ugly looking site (understandably) plase write us to hello@dogsinchains.com.