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Street Dogs – Ronnie & Brigadier
Today I saw a post online from the super good dog charity ‘Dogs On The Streets’ (DOTS). I looked at the picture and then read the name and thought….’hang on a minute’.
I knew Omar and Brigadier about 4 or 5 years ago but lost touch when they suddenly moved on. One day they were just gone. Colin is still around.
We met Colin and Omar around 2014. It was a hot day and I was sitting in the sun outside the Gladstone Arms Pub and I saw these four walking down the street towards me. Ronnie the Mastiff was a strong dog and liked to exercise that strength by pulling poor Colin everywhere. As they past I offered them water and some dog treats from the pub and we got chatting.
Ronnie the mastiff was a puller and got very excited at life and sometimes people were nervous around him. Brigadier was fine with everyone and everything but seemed to have a skin complaint around his neck. We started regular meet ups to chat and we addressed both issues as best we could in the circumstances and course I became very fond of them all.
One day they both said they wished they had some nice photographs of their dogs.
Thanks to photographer Clara Blomqvist who very kindly arranged this shoot and took these pictures.
October 2016
“Ronnie sadly died shortly after these pictures were taken. Omar has moved on somewhere and I often hope him and ‘Brigsy’ are OK.
Two beautiful people and two beautiful dogs, all four dealt a shit hand.
These pictures were taken by Clara Blomqvist upstairs at The Gladstone Arms SE1.”
Dogs On The Streets
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