I actually knew a few days ago when Amy first mentioned that we would be making a digital story and to start thinking of ideas.....well, I knew that my love of animals, in particular dogs, would be the focus. I do alot of animal rescue work by helping transport dogs from shelters to rescues or forever homes or I even help by fostering dogs from shelters that are at capacity and need a place for the dog to go until adopted. Otherwise, many of these animals would be put to sleep without people willing to foster. So, I was thinking of doing a story about transporting animals from the shelter to a rescue or to an adopter......it is a pretty incredible process: emails go out from the person coordinating the effort and then people start signing up to drive a "leg" of the transport. Some of these transports take days and some only hours. Sometimes the transports take place and sometimes they do not have enough drivers and it starts over the following weekend. That is one idea of what I was thinking to do for my digital storytelling. My other idea involves a dog that was very special to me. He passed away about a year ago. I adopted him from a rescue that had saved him from a high kill shelter. He had been with this rescue for 6 months and no one had inquired about him until me. He was 8 years old and lived for 8 more years. He was deaf and he loved tennis balls!!
So, if I do the animal rescue transports I was thinking of a title like, "A Second Chance" and if I did one about my dog I would title it, "An Unfinished Life"........hmmmmm, decisions, decisions.
Pictures will not be a problem since most of us that participate in doing transports will take pictures of us doing our driving leg and then send to each other. And we usually have a pic of the dog and how pitiful, sad he or she looks in the shelter.....very heart-wrenching!! Of course, I have too many pictures to count of my dog so it will really be more about picking the pictures that say or communicate how special he was.......of course, I could get home and think of something completely different. times up....have to go!
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This is completely unrelated to classwork, but aren't rescue dogs just the most rewarding creatures on earth? Both of my babies are rescue dogs, one of which we believe to have been abused at one point or another. They're both very affectionate and loyal. If I knew my husband would let me back in the house, I'd come home with 50 rescue dogs!
ReplyDeleteI'm really excited about seeing this digital story. This is one my favorite causes. The dogs I've fostered have been transported from Alabama and Florida, and the one I'm getting this Saturday is being transported from West Virgina.
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