Waltonpets Furtography Blog: Blitzen

Waltonpets Furtography is an animal shelter pet adoption and rescue photography blog highlighting the dogs and cats of the Walton County Animal Control shelter in Monroe, Georgia.

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Male black and tan German Shepherd dog outside on leash. Dog adoption pet rescue photo for animal control humane society shelter. German Shepherds are used for police, military, search and rescue, airport customs, drug enforcement.

From a small puppy I wanted to be a police dog… well, what German Shepherd doesn’t want to be a police dog? So anyway, it was bit embarrassing to end of up the wrong side of the law. Instead of loyally trotting alongside a SWAT officer on exciting missions, I found myself behind bars at the dog pound.  I was simply out for a bit of a joy run when the animal control officer spotted me. I tried to duck under a car but he coaxed me out with some irresistible bacon-flavored treats. Then it was off to doggy jail.

I was a bit down in the dumps when they slammed shut that chain-link kennel door on all my dreams. All those aspirations of being a police K9, a military dog, or even a just an airport customs agent vanished into thin air as the charges of violating the leash law were stacked against me. And I sunk deeper into depression as the days passed and nobody came to bail me out.

But things took a bit of a turn for the good while I was at the animal shelter. A photographer showed up. Not only was I excited to get out of the kennel to stretch my legs and “do my business”, but I was going to have a better photo than the crappy mug shot I got at booking.

Male black and tan German Shepherd dog outside on leash. Dog adoption pet rescue photo for animal control humane society shelter. German Shepherds are used for police, military, search and rescue, airport customs, drug enforcement.

At first the depression showed on my face as my head hung low to the ground (or maybe it was just me sniffing the dog that had been here before me). But the photographer really got my attention. “Hey,” he said, “if you’ll strike a good pose, I can get you out of here.”

​He told me my dreams of being a police dog weren’t over. He told me that if I performed well during the photo session, I might get adopted by a family with a 9-year-old boy who also dreams of being a police officer. We’d be able to play cops-and-robbers together all day long, pretend to stop thieves as they flee from the imaginary bank, and even foil bomb plots by crazed terrorists together. What a deal! And the best part is that imaginary bullets wouldn’t hurt me!
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With that new dream of being a life-long imaginary police dog companion to a young boy with an overactive imagination, I struck the best hero-dog pose I could muster. Once the photographer had worked his magic, it was off to the internet adoption websites to find my young adopter! 

"Blitzen" was picked up stray by a Walton County Animal Control officer on December 6, 2019. No owner came forward to claim him and he was...

Male black and tan German Shepherd dog outside on leash. Dog adoption pet rescue photo for animal control humane society shelter. German Shepherds are used for police, military, search and rescue, airport customs, drug enforcement.

Male black and tan German Shepherd dog outside on leash. Dog adoption pet rescue photo for animal control humane society shelter. German Shepherds are used for police, military, search and rescue, airport customs, drug enforcement.