Mark Sypher

Editorial: Stories: Chained Dogs

On Christmas Eve David Braun and Hilleary Bogley, the founder of the Middle Humane Foundation, packed a van with donated pet food and gifts for residents of Fauquier County who are known to have animals kept outside. Bogley calls it the Chained Dog Assistance Program.

An anxious dog on Christmas Eve will soon get a bag of food and a cleaned pen. Hilleary Bogley insisted that the owner clean the pen while she was there.Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
   
Hilleary Bogley begins to load a van full of pet food. All of the food was donated to the Middleburg Humane Foundation.Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
   
Bogley feeds a dog while at a residents house near Marshall, Va.Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
     
  
A and chain that will be forever connected to a dog near Marshall, Va..Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
   
Bogley sees that a dog is fed on the spot, as the owner often takes a new bag of food and throws it atop a pile of garbage somewhere in the yard.Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
   
Hilleary Bogley and David Braun bid "farewell" to a dog and pet owner at their first stop of what would be an all day affair.Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
     
  
Bogley, right, and Braun scope the known houses on Haiti Street in Warrenton, Va. that have outside dogs living in the backyards.Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
   
A chain that a chow chow would live connected to in Warrenton, Va..Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
   
Braun runs from a chow chow after attempting to replace the dogs shelter with a new one.Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
     
  
Bogley waits at a front door after hearing residents inside. After assuring the residents that she was not an undercover police officer Bogley left cat food and proceeded into the backyard to check on the dog.Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
   
A pit bull terrier cowers in a shelter. The dog was later taken for neutering and shots, then returned to the owner.Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
   
A pet owner cleans his pets pen of the debris and foam from destroyed couch cusions. Bogley insisted that the owner clean the pen while she was there as the foam posed health hazzards if ingested.Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
     
  
A bowl from a rabbit cage that was defecated in.Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
   
David Braun carries a bag of pet food and human goodies to a resident in The Plains, Va. on Christmas Eve. The recipient was not in good enough health to regularly feed and maintain his outdoor rabbit cages.Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
   
Chad Wise, 11, tears into a gift bag given to him by Braun and Bogley as his mother Gwen watches.Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
     
  
After telling Hilleary that Chad had gotten another dog, Gwen agrees that it should be taken and adopted by people that are in a better position to care of the animal.Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
   
Hilleary Bogley and Chad Wise, 11, agree that the puppy could live a happier life in someone else's care.Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat
   
Chad's dog "Casper" watches as his companion is loaded into a crate and driven away. Photo by Mark F. Sypher for the Fauquier Times-Democrat