Some images from the last couple of months as I’ve traveled the country researching my next book, about dogs and humans.
I helped Randy Grim from Stray Rescue of St. Louis rescue eight puppies from an abandoned house in East St. Louis. (For my previous post about the city, which is one of the poorest and most dangerous in the country, click here.) The mother is feral and wouldn’t let us near her. But the puppies had just learned how to walk, so they weren’t much of a flight risk. It’s a miracle they survived a recent freezing spell in the city. Many other puppies didn’t. Puppies aren’t hard to find homes for, so these kids will go fast.
The abandoned house where we rescued the puppies. We heard one yelping as we walked by.
The puppies, seconds after they arrive at the vet’s. They’re scared, but they’ll come around.
Randy with a pit bull we rescued.
Me and Gurl, a greyhound/boxer mix we rescued.
The couch in the abandoned house where Gurl spent her nights alone before we rescued her. She spent her days in a park, scavenging for food and trying very hard not to let us near her. Now that she’s in a foster home, she likes being petted. A lot.
And now, changing gears completely…
Two celebrity dogs (Bella Starlet and a skateboarding boxer bulldog) at a pet industry event in Las Vegas.
Uga, the University of Georgia mascot, feeling lucky.
Carla Meeske, a Shamanic animal communicator, speaking to spirits in a trance about my dog.
Dear Benoit, you are a genius. From sex addiction to adorable addiction of puppies. You are an original thinker in an unoriginal world. And, you have a very cute boy friend.
good job foe your rescues
I’m concerned that the Pit bull wants a exclusive kind of proprietor…these dogs, no matter how ‘supportive’ still have teeth, are nevertheless creatures not having moral concepts and if they DO bite, won’t let go. As in all creatures…some tend to be far more suseptable to instinctual habits and time and time again, this breed tends to try and do just that.
That is pretty instresting. I think that pitbulls are just very misunderstood
my deaf pitbull and american staffordshire are love bugs and body waggers and very careful not to play bite even. one loves tug of war with a sock or toy, one doesn’t. the one who does likes to shake his head back and forth with a sock or toy after a tug. if you stop playing, he stops playing. neither of them want anything more than a hug and to be in the same room, they follow everywhere. the bite pressure and release of four or five other dogs is way before pitties. what’s instctual about a pit is loyalty. look at those thousands of old cdvs and cabinet photos, many of them with children. what is ‘bred’ into them is a myth. they are loyal and that’s why that bad guys try to change their brains to do as they’re told in bad ways. both my dogs are rescues.