2005
Acrylic on canvas
24" x 30"

In the collection of Deborah Barr

This is a picture of Timbo, my friend's Dobie that died in 2005. He was a rescue dog that we got when I lived with her. Real sweetheart. Was a complete stray when Animal Services picked him up. She tried for a week to get him out, but they were insistent on putting him down since he was injured. She finally got the head of Orange County Animal Control to get him out for her. He had had a broken leg and hip that had healed bad. The joints in his knee and ankle were fused so he couldn't bend them. His hip muscles had grown all wonky and backwards, but he ran as fast as any other dog. Used the stiff leg for a rudder to turn. He had pellets and buckshot in him. In spite of all that he was the gentlest, sweetest dog I've ever known.

© Guy Gondron

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