For the Love of Animals

Everyone loves a dog, or their cat, or a fuzzy koala bear. I can't imagine my home without a dog at hand. And most of them came to me as a shelter animal; some critter that had fallen into the wrong hands and ended up in a pen with sad eyes. They are all broken in some way. Poor Riff was just too much of a handful for a family and needed some good coaching & structure. Waylon is an unknown, but I'm pretty sure that he was a hurricane or storm victim from Oklahoma and went wayward from a good home and never found his way back. He just wants a safe space to share.

This entry is a video feature via 60SecondDocs. The photographer is Alex from Australia and her calling is to showcase disabled animals. Damaged ones who still have an incredible sense of dignity and charm that translates into photos. They are misfits in the animal kingdom who might be blind, missing a leg or have scars from humans themselves. Like any good photographer she finds character in each and you can see a joy and a resilience in their eyes.