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Homeless in colour by ~CatchMe-22:iconCatchMe-22:

Categories Photography > Animals, Plants & Nature > Domesticated Animals

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©2009 ~CatchMe-22
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Model: The orphan dog tentatively (and forever) named Nacho
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The millions of stray dogs (perros vagos) in Chile form a distinctive aspect of its urban landscape. They are everywhere -- In the streets, outside shops, lazing in the parks, begging in the town squares...

I once asked a Chilean friend why there are so many homeless dogs in the streets, to which he replied jokingly,

"It's to keep all the homeless people warm at night."

I found something heartachingly sad, yet strangely poetic in that answer...



Valparaiso, Chile

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*dareme Jun 29, 2009, 3:57:18 AM
My favourite picture of Nacho.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
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*dareme Jun 29, 2009, 3:59:14 AM
(I think it's because of the puddles. In them bits of heaven mingle with dirt and despair and - on sunny days - hope.)

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
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=lovexjunkie Jun 29, 2009, 4:37:56 AM
i want to keep this dog. I dont get how people could pass him on the street and not want to take him in :(

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Is utterly broke again. Fuck it all.
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~CatchMe-22 Jun 30, 2009, 8:31:51 PM
Yeah... I seriously contemplated taking him home. Would've been a bitch (hah) taking him all over south america though, not to mention the quarantine nightmare

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"Imagination is intelligence with an erection."
--Victor Hugo
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~CatchMe-22 Jun 30, 2009, 8:39:28 PM
Me too! Funny how I think the same in terms of the Nacho pictures, but the ';popularity' of them is reversed! :)

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"Imagination is intelligence with an erection."
--Victor Hugo
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~CatchMe-22 Jun 30, 2009, 8:39:52 PM
"bits of heaven mingle with dirt and despair and - on sunny days - hope"... lovely words my dear. I love it

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"Imagination is intelligence with an erection."
--Victor Hugo
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=lovexjunkie Jul 1, 2009, 5:55:17 AM
ugh yeah...you're right. Quarantine...

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Is utterly broke again. Fuck it all.
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May 26, 2009, 6:32:43 AM

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