Sorry this post is late, Gentle Readers. I've been having a glyphosate reaction with narcolepsy, so aren't we all glad I wasn't driving.
Snoopy, America's best known cartoon dog, was awfully anthropomorphic. His doghouse was full of treasures real dogs don't have, or want, like a Van Gogh painting. He daydreamed not about running and hunting, as real dogs do, but about being a World War I flying ace; the doghouse was not just a generic plane but a Sopwith Camel. But he was True To His Roots and proud to identify as a dog.
America's best loved cartoon animals, like Snoopy, or Pogo (who looked like a small boy but told people he was "a possum by trade"), seem to have guessed what Koko the gorilla would tell us about being "almost human." Fine animal gorilla. They're not trying to be human. They are what they are.
Here are three of America's most photogenic shelter dogs. They are not "almost human." They are canine. They are surplus puppies, born in homes where nobody wanted them because somebody did not make the time to have simple veterinary surgery done.
Youall know what to do with these pictures. If you can, adopt the dogs. If not, share the pictures with as many people as possible until somebody else rescues them. If you miss the chance to rescue those individual dogs, try to meet others at the shelter. There's always an element of chance in photos. Animals who didn't photograph well can be just as appealing, in real life, as the ones who did.
1. Zipcode 10101: Chip and Cocoa from Ozone Park
His web page: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/chip-65685987/ny/ozone-park/heavenly-angels-animal-rescue-ny1047/
The picture and link come from Chip's web page. If you see Chip's and Cocoa's photos together on the Petfinder home page for beagle puppies near New York City, they illustrate what I've said about animals in these photo contests. Both the brother and the sister are adorable. When photographed they were two months old. They don't have stories yet. Adopt them and be part of their stories.
2. Zipcode 20202: Popsicle from Falls Church
There are seven pups in the litter so I can see why the shelter staff have set up one web page for each pup, but part of what makes Popsicle's picture so cute is that the seven siblings look so much alike.
3. Zipcode 30303: Scrappy from Waverly (Alabama)
His web page: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/scrappy-of-the-5-puppies-65364329/al/waverly/orr-farm-rescue-sanctuary-inc-al505/
There are five of these beagle-mix pups. Some of the photos are just short of greatness, like this one where the camera exaggerates the effect of distance, and one is among the memorably bad pictures that make me think, at first glance, "What's that supposed to be? Surely not a living animal?" One of the pups is mostly black and it can be hard to take a recognizable photo of a black animal. The dogs, well, they're all beagle puppies. Some personalities and social relationships of their own, just as baby dogs in their den. Some natural interest in pleasing and bonding with you. May be noisy, may suffer from delusions about their singing talents, may whine or misbehave for attention, but they're intelligent (as dogs go) and should be great fun to know for ten or fifteen years.
In Georgia, at least, people don't seem to let beagles languish in shelters, but further north there are literally hundreds of these puppies. Every one has the potential to be a great pet.
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