AllThingsPets
Off the CHAIN Denver charity helps owners help their dogs by Aaron Garcia photography courtesy of volunteers of Heart of the Carolinas Unitarian Universalist Animal Ministry
JULY 2019
48 LAKE NORMAN CURRENTS
Heart of the Carolinas Unitarian Universalist Animal Ministry helps provide better lives for dogs.
hose that benefit from Heart of the Carolinas Unitarian Universalist Animal Ministry can expect a new fence, doghouse, water bucket, pooper scooper, toys, a tarp for shade and some straw. What they won’t get? Judgment. Rather, says spokesperson/ publicist/fence builder Julie Rohe, the group’s mission is to provide a better life for area dogs that are chained up, and to do so by helping their owners.
“We all don’t think the same. We all haven’t grown up the same way with animals being part of the family and stuff like that,” says Rohe. “We don’t judge.” Instead, they build. The group began in 2016 as an offshoot of Holly’s Hope, a Huntersvillebased charity with the same goal. In the first two years it erected two fences total before jumping to seven in 2018. As of June 2019, the group has already built 16 fences and untethered 35 dogs thanks to an influx of volunteers