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6 Comments to “Pogo - Portuguese Podengo mix”

  1. Deva says:

    These are such beautiful photos! Photographer Melissa McDaniel has used photographs of rescued dogs for the Photo Book project, which has become a major fund raiser for numerous organisations. I realise this requires a lot of time and energy, but maybe at some point it's something you might think about for Canadian dogs. Your photos are aesthetically beautiful, but also clearly reveal the personalities of your subjects, and speaking for myself, I'd be only too pleased to have a book of them!

    The Photo Book project site is here: http://melissashouse.typepad.com/shelterstories/preorder.html

  2. Fred says:

    Hi Deva, thanks for the link. Sounds like a good idea. I'll check it out.

  3. Anonymous says:

    i simply cannot believe that I found this guy upon googling podengo puppy pics. his expressive face and the way his ears sit caught my eye, it all seemed so famiiar, but it couldn't be. so i decided to open the page and see where he was located. This came even more to my surprise, it's my puppy, Pogo (now Bentley). We adopted him April 2nd. I was blown away that there was a twin to my Bentley, cause i never thought it could really be him. This dog is fantastic, and, to whomever took these two pics, thank you, they are awesome... i now have them saved, and LOVE them!!!!
    Cheers to all,
    Dixie and Bentley

  4. Fred says:

    It's always great to hear from adoptive parents! Glad you like the pics. If you've got any recent photos of Bentley you'd like me to put up for an update on Pogo post, just e-mail them to me.

  5. Anonymous says:

    Fred I would Love to email you pics for an update, but i cannot find an email address anywhere!!!!!!!!
    dixie

  6. Fred says:

    Hi Dixie, my email is iwantapounddog @ gmail . com. Looking forward to the pics!

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A request

The reason for this blog is to help get specific dogs adopted from TAS but equally important is to try to normalize the idea of shelter dogs being just as good and just as desirable as any other dogs including those which are regularly merchandised by backyard breeders, puppy millers and those few remaining pet store owners who still feel a need to sell live animals. The single greatest stigma shelter animals still face is the belief that shelter animals are substandard animals. Anyone who has had enough experience with shelter animals knows this is untrue but the general public hasn't had the same experiences you've had. They see a nice dog photo in a glossy magazine and too many of them would never think of associating that dog with a dog from a shelter. After all, no one abandons perfectly good dogs, right? Unfortunately, as we all know, perfectly good dogs are abandoned all the time.

The public still too often associates shelter dogs with images of beat up, sick, dirty, severely traumatized animals and while we definitely sometimes see victims such as these, they are certainly not the majority and, regardless, even the most abused animals can very often be saved and made whole again.

Pound Dogs sometimes discusses the sad histories some of the dogs have suffered. For the most part, though, it tries to present the dogs not as victims but as great potential family members. The goal is to raise the profiles of animals in adoption centers so that a potential pet owner sees them as the best choice, not just as the charity choice.

So, here's the favour I'm asking. Whenever you see a dog picture on these pages you think is decent enough, I'd like you to consider sharing it on Facebook or any other social media sites you're using (I know many of you do this already and thank you for that). And when you share it, please mention that the dog in the photo is a shelter dog like so many other shelter dogs waiting for a home. If we can get even five percent of the pet buying public to see shelter dogs differently, to see how beautiful they are and how wonderful they are, and to consider shelter dogs as their first choice for a new family member, we can end the suffering of homeless pets in this country.
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