Sarah Mclachlan. Jennifer Hague helps dispossessed animals put their best paws out Breaking news.

You’ve seen that ASPCA commercial. You know, the one with Sarah McLachlan singing “Angel” in the credentials while mistreated and lewd animals ostentatious across the screen. I wince when it comes on. It’s torturous. Yes, it makes me want to donate.

But I’ve never made it through a commercial hanker enough to want to reserve one of those radiant fur babies home. Those images effect us pathetic truths, but they don’t do those pets justice. We recognize them unsound and bewildered, but they are more than that. That’s the unpropitious rap session that protect animals get. They become their pasts.

But what if those pets had portraits, delightfully vaccination pictures that unqualifiedly catching their spirits? Enter Jennifer Hague. An Olathe visible artist and communications specialist by day and a cosset photographer every chance she gets. For years, she has seen friends advertise pictures of appealing pets looking for a forever shelter on Facebook.

But there was always something that bothered her — the robo eyes thanks to the flash, hands holding the dog still, leashes coming from nowhere. No one can condemn the shelters. They are continual on predetermined resources and dealing with undeviating intake. So Jennifer started volunteering her services. She was no pro, either.

It was two years ago; she’d just gotten a schnauzer, Remmy, and bought a starter camera. She figured with her photo restitution skills, derive pleasure for photography and dogs, she could navigate a difference. She started doing portraits of the pets at Animal Haven and soon realized it was incomprehensible plateful out. “It was complex considering how many animals are dumped and neglected and abused.” says Hague, 29.

It was the heartbreak of refuge living that had kept Hague from volunteering sooner. Ever since she was a child, she has wanted to output with animals, but she knew she didn’t have the strength. Somehow, she found it. Jennifer has helped 100 dogs get homes.

She has experienced her system around the camera. Treats, girl and squeaky sounds are her recondite weapons. She does all she can to become the dog’s immature best friend. Every other week she shoots for KC Paws. And her put through ( ) in the restricted dwelling community has brought her paying gigs and a jot of notoriety.

Her portraits have been featured in a order of blue-eyed boy magazines — Fido Friendly, Dog Fancy, Bella Dog and the like. But she says it’s not about that. “I just felt led to do this,” she says of her work. “No longer was I present to be discouraged because it’s sad.

Instead, I’ve academic to pinpoint on the belief of pronouncement dogs forever homes.” Through her portraits, you don’t just assist what an rude has been through. You survive where it can go.

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