Over the years LOST GALLERY has acquired lots of photographs with pets and farm animals in them. Most often the photo will include the pet owner or a child or just someone holding the animal. For this Back Page the feature will be mostly photographs of the pets all by themselves. What characters they are when posing before the camera.
Squirrel!
Who's that coming up the drive?
Here are three more typical snaps with someone accompanying the pet.
On reverse:
Me and one
of my pals.
Janice had no idea that the parrot had been talking about her.
On Reverse:
Poochie 1944
Roy, the ghost cat.
Tickle fight. 
Oh. I was just looking for my um...ball. Yeah, that's it.
Pork chop? No. No, I haven't seen any pork chop.
Doggie Dreams
This is "Blame" the dog, as a pup.
Sitting in a canvas director's chair, foretelling his own future, Blame was to become friends with many movie directors, including Tim Burton and the Coen Brothers (one at a time).
But not Mel Gibson.
Puppy in a lawn chair.
It's very confusing.
Some chairs they let me sit on and others they don't. It's very confusing.
Sitting in the snow, pretending he likes it.
Scooter didn't know what was going on. And he didn't care much. He just knew they were getting awfully close to that pork rib he buried last week just a few feet from here.
"Yeah? Well, I ain't to pleased with the size of things either!"
"Are you going to bed anytime soon?
I what to examine some of those things on that indoor tree."
I was taking a nap you know. 
Go away.
A goose for a pet?
There are those that would say "ALL sheep are pets."
Goat pets.
Go on. Tell me this isn't a pet.
How do they drink this stuff?
Can't get enough?
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THE KIDS 
It is always a mystery
how a photograph of any
of these precious children
could end up lost
or abandoned.
Here are a few.
You will probably say
"Ooh..." at least once.
Dee and the Business School 
The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?
WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
"What are they doing?"
You have some classics here. So often the animal shots you find in a box of ephemera and better off left in the box, but these are great because the animal's personality comes through. Animals doin' animal stuff. I especially like the dog and cat playing.
ReplyDeleteI was just sorting through a box at an antique store today and there were rabbits rabbits rabbits! I didn't buy any. They didn't "speak" to me.
Yes, I noticed that too. So often the pet is with someone. Not often does one find the pet alone in a snapshot. I decided to make a page just for these characters.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean. When sorting through old photographs I find ones that seem to be just waiting for me to see it. It is full of stories and questions and activity. They do indeed speak!