Posted on 08/07/2012 3:48:40 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
photo may be worth 1,000 words, but professional photographer Hannah Stonehouse Hudson has learned it can also be worth 2.2 million views, 191,162 likes, 108,766 shares and 21,936 comments (and counting) on Facebook.
"My specialty is documenting relationships, whether it's a wedding or a man and his dog," says the Bayfield, Wis., photographer. "I have known my friend John and his dog, Schoep, for six years. I have seen Schoep age -- he's 19 now. John lives his life in a kind way. He rescued this dog as a puppy, they have gone everywhere together ever since. Schoep has arthritis now, and John finds that the water is therapeutic. He is the kind of person who wants his animals to be comfortable. I wanted to capture their relationship. I told John, 'I really need to get photos of you and your dog.'
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I was one of those like and share people....that picture spoke volumes and brought a tear to my eye......thank you for posting and we can share it even more with all of the animal loving FReepers....
doggie ping
The only word I have is awwwwwwwww.
The tenderness is amazing.
12 years is pretty old for a Norweigan Elkhound.
(yeah, I cried like a baby)
Great picture. Shows the love...
Dang monitor must be going out on me. Got blurry. (*sniff, sniff*)
I had to put my two greyhounds down within a year of each other...one was 12, one was 14. My wife and I got the 14 yo a month after we were married. She was literally our first child. Took me 3 years before I could get another greyhound.
Nothing smells worse than a wet dog. Except a wet hippie.
Dang monitor must be going out on me. Got blurry. (*sniff, sniff*)
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Mine too—it must be Free Republic’s servers.
Yes, but would you smell like a wet hippie, and a wet dog, just to replicate that photo? I would, in a heartbeat.
Here, too.
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Dang monitor must be going out on me. Got blurry. (*sniff, sniff*)Ditto. What an extraordinary image.
I’ve had one dog in my life as a boy, until my daughter got a dog and then had to move away for work.
I have the dog now. I swore up and down I wouldn’t have a dog again, the walks, the poop scooping and vets and then the hardest decision...
the dog Tootsie is an amazing canine. Smart, knows what I say, is getting more obedient (she’s almost 4 years old now).
I’ve learned / she’s taught me her vocalizations and what she means now, so we communicate better. She is learning to love her baths and is coming around to toe nail clipping...very slowly.
Tootsie is a rescue from Salt Lake, UT that somehow made her way to Denver as nothing more than skin and bones after having a litter somewhere...
She’s so much improved her muscles and is the second fastest doggie at the dog park, she loves to run and smiles a mile wide.
If you haven’t read “The Art of Racing in the Rain” you should get it asap.
The outside of a dog is good for the inside of a man...Churchill??
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I thought some nut shot that guy on a stoop in New York City thirty years ago?
In older dogs there is something called “Vestibular Syndrome” that can mimic the signs of a stroke. It happened to one of my elderly basenji’s. He was fine in a day or so (although it can take longer), the important thing is to keep him hydrated, as the vertigo effect can interfere with them being able to drink.
Hope your pup does better.
FYI, my other basenji (almost 17) went blind some time ago. It seemed to adapt pretty well. Of course you have to adapt too.
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