Shelter Dogs (10 page)

Authors: Peg Kehret

Peg and her husband, Carl, live in a log house in Washington State. They have two grown children and four grandchildren.

They found their dog Daisy at the Humane Society when Daisy was six months old. Peg and Carl were working as volunteers that day, not looking for an animal to adopt.

Then they saw Daisy, and their hearts melted. The staff told them that Daisy was a Cairn terrier, the same as Toto in
The Wizard of Oz
. Peg and Carl, who already had a dog and a cat, agreed to go home and talk it over.

They never made it home. They sat in the Humane Society parking lot for a few minutes, then went back inside to sign the adoption papers. Daisy got spayed the next morning and went home with the Kehrets that afternoon. She is now chief squirrel watcher on their fenced ten acres of forest.

Every night at bedtime, Daisy gets in her basket and Peg sings her a doggie lullaby. It is a ritual they both love.

About the Photographer

Greg Farrar is from Seattle, Washington. His parents gave him his first camera when he was ten years old. He learned to use a darkroom in high school and took school yearbook photos. Then he went to the University of Washington, received a degree in communications, and started working for newspapers. About the same time he met Peg Kehret and began taking pictures of shelter dogs and cats for her monthly newspaper article about animals who needed new homes.

Greg now works for the
Issaquah Press
, a large weekly newspaper that is one hundred years old. He takes photographs for stories about current events, schools, sports, and interesting people.

Greg and his wife, Judi, live in Mountlake Terrace, Washington. They have three dogs and two cats, all adopted from animal shelters.

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