Shore Gallery

Bild 1–4, 7–8: Courtesy Shore Gallery Bild 5: Courtesy of Robert Lund Bild 6: Courtesy the artist and Deborah Schamoni To love an animal is to admit defeat and welcome heartbreak with open arms. That’s why I mourned your death the day I met you. I was looking for a service dog and considering buying an already-trained golden retriever with a pedigree when a local rescue group got back to me. They wanted to let me know that, while they didn’t have the cute puppy I had enquired about, a female German shepherd named Barbie, they did have another dog available: a mutt who, as I had requested,…