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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- BF_030604_043.JPG: Best Friends Animal Shelter in Utah
- BF_030604_065.JPG: This was regarded as a problem cat. The staff tried to stay away from it because it got violent a lot. He sat still for pictures though.
- BF_030604_084.JPG: The dogs had color-coded collars. A green collar meant people could try to pet him. A different color (white?) meant you could pet him but there might be issues (he might pee all over you or something). Another color (red?) meant don't bother trying to pet him because he might try to kill you. They also had to worry about pack structures with dogs -- alpha, beta, and omega dogs had to be balanced in each pack. And some packs got too comfortable and wouldn't accept any new members.
- BF_030604_106.JPG: The hoods were on the horses to keep the bugs off them. This particular one had lost part of his tail so they had tied some rope on to fill in for it.
- BF_030604_117.JPG: The Disney company had come out and filmed a movie here. The barn was created for the set. The movie apparently didn't do too well but the barn was a hit with the animals.
- BF_030604_129.JPG: The next several pictures are from the pet cemetery
- BF_030604_166.JPG: Here's the entrance to the pet cemetery (named "Angels Rest")
- Description of Subject Matter: Best Friends Animal Sanctuary is the nation's largest sanctuary for abused and abandoned companion and domestic animals. According to their Web site at http://www.bestfriends.org, "The sanctuary is home on any given day to roughly 1,500 animals. About 1,200 of these are dogs and cats; the rest include horses, burros, wild birds, rabbits, goats, farm animals, and an assortment of other creatures." It's a no-kill shelter which means that the animals they can adopt, they do. The rest (which includes the crippled) end up staying with the shelter until they die naturally. They offer tours of the facility (which owns 23,000 acres in the red canyon area near Bryce and Zion) in exchange for a contribution to the group and I managed to time my arrival just in time to go on it. My cat was still in Silver Spring and I was having cat-withdrawal so it was great to pet and snuggle with a few of theirs. Of course I'm allergic to cats so I sneezed and itched the rest of the day.
Dogs are pack animals so they need special shelters and they have to take the alpha males into account when they plan things. Cats are a heck of a lot easier to house.
Dogs also use a four-color collar system to identify them. The four colors:
- Red = staff only (typically they bite)
- Green = volunteer friendly
- Purple = no children
- Yellow = no walks for medical reasons
The also have a pet cemetery called Angels Rest, which includes a lot of wind chimes and different types of markers.
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