First up is new retire Booley,

Obviously having too much fun

  Next is old man Rex

Playful Jack-jack

  And Dax, who was featured before

Looks like they mean serious business eh? Lucky for me they were just softies inside.. we started by warming up indoors. Left to right – Grumpy, Dippy, Muffin and Droopy

Given how they were food motivated the following two shots will give you an idea of how I worked with “Mommy J” to get them in place And I must say for a ChowChow Muffin does a mean ballet pose

Muffin was most willing to post.. provided you had something of interest to him

Getting them to pose together did prove quite a challenge..

With many outtakes resulting .. decided to keep this one though Thats Dippy and Grumpy.

I was kinda hard to tell them apart but Dippy on the left is the only female and Droopy on the right is the biggest of the lot

And of course there was Grumpy with his slightly lop sided jowls

He also had this “look” which I cannot really put to words..

Soon after they did get tired of posing..

After that last picture I figured they had had enough of me for one day Thanks J for the wonderful time spent with your furry pals!

First up we have Hunter the Husky who is still in the isolation kennels as he was a recent arrival..

Being a husky, he was most interested in the cats nearby and could not keep still for most of the shoot

Next up was the adroably sweet Toto

And some kittens (forgot to take down names! ) some annoyed at being woken from the nap..

Kitty kisses?

aaand its back to the nap

As a bonus for making it this far, here is one non-adoptable doggy but still always adorable Yes its thier ‘mascot’ Yellow!

Yellow and Nerus having a Father/adopted son moment with Nerus annoying the heck out of him.

Boy (left) and Twiggy getting excited about meeting more people/potential adopters

Volunteers getting a brief from one of the more experienced adopters

Setting up stalls..

Notice how Yellow is paying alot of attention to the Ice Cream sellers

The crowd was good that day with a good flow of people in and out..

The three “chief adopterers”  sorting though the applications.

The Ice cream from Scoop and Shake was sold out too!

Even Spud (a short term boarding resident) got to enjoy some

Yellow, being the food motivated lab that he his, will never let you eat your lunch in peace =p

Colleen, one of the volunteer photogs there had a little surpise birthday too! (she says she is still 1 =p )

There were simply too many cats/dogs to photograph that day so here are a few highlights

These few cats were rescued by the Cat Welfare Society (CWS) from a hoarder. They were sevrely under nourished but under thier care have recovered nicely!

This pretty girl was rescued from the area near Elias Mall

Had some fun shooting this fiesty lot (look at those claws)..

We end off with this ridiculously cute puppy called Beatus. He was rescued from a construction site and has 6 siblings also looking for homes!

If you wanna see more do check out the full set over on flickr or at the Facebook Album

The full set of pictures can be found at over at this gallery.

First up Rosie the therapy dog.

Then there was Ubin the dog whose foot was trapped in a boar trap. Sadly it had to be amputated but he has bounced back tremendously! Rescued and now in a loving home!

Cookie and Baloo and adorable duo.

Of course some dogs choose not to walk..

but to talk instead

Ozzy looking good with her new shoes..and who can resist a pug?

The dogs seemed to have a great time there depsite the rain early on. To see more you can check out the flickr album

First up is Rotty who was abandoned and found she was very friendly and playful but will need proper training to make sure she behaves properly.

A little bit of abstract rottie

She was quite interested in the lens at first but quickly got bored of it. Still she is quite a poser too

Next up a mastiff called Gong-Gong(means slow-witted). While he does look like his name he is no slouch on the love department

Who can resist that smooshed and silly face

Still he can look dignified if required.

But of course he really is just a big goof ball eh?

And now sweet Delphi. The first thing she does is flop down and ask for belly rubs..

And if you stop she will ask for more in her special way..

Its hard to say no to her Especially when she does her Corgi imitation

After you rub her belly long enough she will go into a that natural dog high..

Finally managed to get her to sit up for her money shot

Hope she finds a forever home soon!

Holly a boarding resident that hung around the reception area. He decided to retire after a few treats.

Then I also met Missy who is now very happy wither her new parents

Out behind there was Nereus garding the table.

I also met Cookie who is looking for his forever home! If you think you can commit the time and love or know somone who can do drop by the shelter to find out more

Cheers and hope your 2010 is off to a great start!

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2 cats??

Of course after that it was time to give the dogs some attention!

Wally the ball-crazy JRT

Good Ol’ Nerus

After that I found some familiar dogs using the pool!

Not the most graceful of entries..

And of course the obligatory shaking shots..

Hope you all had a great X’mas. This will be my last post for the year. See ya in 2010!

The flag off!

It was a hot day..

And some dogs preferred to be ‘walked’. Those little booties are too cute!

Resting after the walk.

Thanks for viewing. Hope you all ahve a great weekend ahead!

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