Not all dogs at the city shelter are strays. Not all are runaways or surrendered by owners. Not all are available for adoption. One group of dogs is never seen by the public. They are the dogs in custody, required by the courts to be held until their legal situation is resolved – a period lasting weeks, months, even a year.

Give a Dog a Bone is a quality of life program for these long-term shelter dogs held at San Francisco's Animal Care & Control - the city's municipal shelter. GADAB is changing the bleak existence of these dogs every day, one chew toy, one play session, one belly rub at a time. Find out more details about this unique program and the people who make it possible.

There are lots of ways you can help this donation-driven program, from giving money to volunteering your time to simply spreading the word. GADAB is currently the only program of its kind but we hope to make the same services available at shelters nationwide. We'll be keeping you posted on this as we learn more.

For more information on Give a Dog a Bone, please download our brochure. Click here to download PDF file(880KB).

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