2. Animals & Love

Hello once again!
It is now time for my next photo. J And as I said in my first post, it is not professional photography that you will see in the images to follow. Even though the desire is plenty, there’s not much skill there… The photo is a simple moment captured in a frame.

This photo is about Animals and Love. If this was a topic about animals & hate, I should have probably done a vox pop about the stray dogs on campus and how the guards kick them around… But no. It is about love. It took me some time to decide what to do about this but then I remembered I had an amazing photo for the occasion. I took this photo when I was on a trip to the Netherlands a year ago (exactly a year). These two beautiful dogs, Choco and Daisy, were the pets of my friends’ parents. When you look at them, you might get the willies but once you approach to pad them, you will see they are the most polite and caring dogs. Unfortunately, during the summer Daisy had to be put to sleep. Even I felt sad when I heard about that…

I decided to dedicate this post to two of my college roommates – one of them gave me the topic of this post, and the other one is the reason I managed to take this photo. Thank you, Sashka & Laura! J

Choco & Daisy, March 2013

Now, when I talk about dogs, I can’t neglect the most recent hustle about the puppy and the horse from the Budweiser’s Super Bowl commercial. I heard someone say that when advertisers can’t think of anything smart, they create a commercial with people’s all-time favorite symbols – babies, puppies or sex (love, no?). Well, as true as this might be, I must say that in my mind Budweiser’s commercial is brilliant. It shows the love between Buds! Ok, I’ll admit, I had tears in my eyes when I saw it… If there is anyone who has not seen the ad yet (really?), here it is:

 /you can read more about the ad in Elena Parangoni's blog post/

 We all know all of this is intention, and the ad is directed and all that but you can’t say no to the truth – animals love purely and more deeply than humans. Even researches found out that animals feel emotions such as joy, love and grief… 

And in case the photo and the ad haven’t touched you yet, take a look at baby Beau and puppy Theo sleeping together – photos taken by a loving mother which lead to a new nap ritual in the house. J