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Cause is Pack N Pounce Animal Rescue located in Ogden, UT

 Their website......PackNPounce Animal Rescue
 
Pack N Pounce Animal Rescue is not your typical animal shelter. Yes, they have dogs and cats... puppies and kittens... but they also have rabbits, birds, snakes, a rat, cows, horses...? OH! but wait! they don't have cages. They have foster families that take in the animals that the rescue accepts. They only accept animals that are non aggressive, friendly and trainable. Brenda Gordon screens each animal before they are placed with a foster family. The screening process involves so "manners" training; basic things like sit, stay, wait, don't pull on the leash and don't jump on people. All things that help the animal be adopted easier and have a better chance of staying with the adoptive family for a forever home.  
It all started with horses back in 1980. Brenda started rescuing young horses that were starving and had been rounded up. 
 These are some of the horses they have right now....

                                                 Jack

                                           BellaDonna

 Jack and BellaDonna good buddies!

The pony

Pretty soon she was taking in all kinds of farm animals, getting them healthy and finding them new homes. When she moved to UT in 2002 there wasn't as big of a need for farm animals to be rescued but there were plenty of other animals that needed someone to care about them. 2007 was a turning point; In December 2007 she heard the news about 13 puppies that had been dumped in a business’s dumpster in Riverdale Utah. Only one of the 5 week old healer mix puppies survived. The owner had wrapped 13 puppies in a sheet, then in a large plastic bag & tied it shut leaving them overnight to freeze to death. The next day they were thrown into the stores dumpster where they were found by an employee taking out the trash. Brenda's husband was almost as angry as Brenda was and told her she could quit her job and open the animal rescue thrift store she had always wanted to open so she could help more animals.

They still take in all kinds of animals....

How can you NOT love those little faces?!?

 This is Goliath, he is only 8 months old and HUGE! He ate a teddy bear head and it got stuck in his intestine. The vet saved his life with surgery but it cost $1000. The rescue is taking donations to help pay for his surgery, hospital stay and food.

Another thing that makes this organization different from any other animal rescue that I have heard about is their community involvement. The thrift store functions in multiple ways; brings in income, gives them an office, a place for people to volunteer, a place to drop off pets (when they have enough foster places), a staging area for showing pets to potential adoptive families. There  are 2 Easter Seals people who come 20 hours a week to work in the thrift store. There are also Proctor kids who come to work off community service hours. Brenda will bring specific animals to the thrift store on days that they have the volunteers, ones she knows each volunteer may respond to and connect with.

This is Brenda... she gets paid a whopping $1 a YEAR!!
In addition to rescuing and placing animals with an adoptive family they also help to educate people about getting their animal spayed or neutered, some of whom qualify to get the procedure done for free or $1. They have helped almost 2000 pets get fixed with grant money and partnering with "Best Friends Animal society".
The volunteers and some of the animals....

This is Becky, Brenda's sister and Cooper. Cooper is a peekapoo breed. He is part Pekingese and part Poodle and only a year old full of energy and personality (smiles all the time). Becky volunteers full time plus some to help with the thrift store, the animals and going to adoption events. 

This is Renee, she is one of the Easter seals workers with Snoopy a yellow lab. Snoopy's owner died in a car accident and the wife of the owner had to move into her children's house due to the accident and couldn't take Snoopy.

This is Mike holding 2 of the girls out of the litter of 7 American Bulldog puppies that came in on the "puppy transport". Below is one of their brothers.

                                                                                  

This little Chihuahua mix was taken from a shelter. The poor little guy has a broken rib that healed wrong and sticks out and an ear that flops, but he is a happy guy.

These 2 feral cats were brought in and will be kept in a barn for a few days and then released in a neighborhood to catch mice and rats. They will be fixed and have their ears clipped ears to identify that they have been fixed and if they are caught in a trap or picked up by animal control they are to be released back into their neighborhood.

One of the sources of donations each year is the Utah Renaissance and Fantasy Fair. This snake was taking a tour of the fair and was also up for adoption a couple years ago. 
 You may remember a couple years ago the story of an Ogden, UT man who called a shelter saying he had 60 dogs and needed some help. He really had A LOT MORE! The news reported that there were 149 but there were more then that even.
Amazingly Brenda and Becky remember all the animals they have helped. Brenda showed me pictures and videos of animals on her phone telling me the name of each one and where they had been adopted to!! In 2012 they did 370 adoptions and last year they did 388, so far this year as of April 6th they have done 110 adoptions. Here are some pictures that Brenda gave me:

This is Ivan, he is one of the 149 dogs... he needed surgery but is happily adopted now

 

Another of the 149... adopted to a family in CA

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Process

My process is bowling...

First step to bowling is to find a bowling alley. Some times they have special times that cost less or when the lanes are full with people playing league play; that is a specific group of people who get together weekly and play against each other.

After you arrive you pay for how many games you want to play, they tell you which lane to play on and then hand you shoes.

The shoes are special because you can't use regular shoes on the floors they use to make the lanes.

Next you find a ball that your fingers will fit in and isn't too heavy or too light, then take it to the lane where your going to be playing.

Enter the names of players so the computer can keep track of the score and whose turn is next.

First person rolls the ball down the lane toward the bowling pins at the end of the lane. You get 2 chances to try and knock over all the pins. 

When you roll it down to the end of the lane the bar comes down so no more balls can be thrown and then a machine picks up the pins that are still standing and sweeps away the ones that have been knocked over. It counts the ones knocked over and marks the score accordingly. 

The ball is returned to you through a machine under the floor.

There is one instance where you would only get 1 turn to throw the ball, that would be if you knock over all the pins with your first ball. That is called a strike. If you get all the pins knocked down but it takes you both balls to do it then it is called a spare.

After you throw your second ball it is the next person's turn. Play goes on alternating between players until everyone has had 10 turns, each turn is called a frame. On the 10th turn it is possible to get to throw 3 balls in one turn. If you get a strike or a spare in that 10th turn, then you get to throw 1 more ball so that the scoring can be completed. If you are playing more then 1 game then play continues in this fashion until you have finished all the games for which you have paid.

9th step, put your own shoes back on and take the borrowed ones back up to the desk and put the ball back on the rack.

All the shoes are sprayed after each time they have been used. 

A mom letting her little guy pick out a ball.

 

This little guy was ecstatic with his role. Didn't matter that he didn't knock them all down, just that he hit some and made them fall.

The balls come in all sorts of colors and with different kinds of swirls and sparkles to them. Some are even glow in the dark for when playing special games under black lights.

Walk out the door cuz it's time to go home!!

Magnum Photographer ALESSANDRA SANGUINETTI !!!!Updated!!!!

I picked Alessandra Sanguinetti. She photographed a lot of kids and animals especially in funny  positions but I really liked the way she documented 2 cousins' relationship over the course of their critical growing up years.
http://alessandrasanguinetti.com/index.php/project/the-adventures-of-guille-and-belinda/

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Specific Group of People

My project was to find a narrow group of people who have something in common, the more narrow the better. I had already decided that I was going to have my group be tall women with large shoe sizes.

I work for Sports Imaging Photography of Utah taking pictures of kids sports teams. When one of the teams came through with a female coach who was tall, now granted, since I am only 5'4, a large portion of the female population are taller then me; I gathered up my courage and asked her what size shoe she wore. When she told me that it was a size 12, I knew that I had found the narrow group I was searching for; tall women who are mothers of children who play Jr Jazz BB, have a large shoe size and are or have been coaches. I pushed myself to go into the crowd and ask tall women what size shoe they wore. After establishing that they had a large enough shoe size I asked if they had any coaching experience and then if I could photograph them. I didn't have a lot of time since I was at work, so I grabbed my personal camera and snapped a few pictures before the next group came. 

My second group of women coaches also had the same things in common... they are women who have children playing Jr Jazz BB, they are taller then I am, they have coached something, and have a size 9 or larger shoe.

This is Gretchen Polhemus Jensen and she wears a size 9.5-10 shoe. She is a former Miss USA, worked for ESPN and is now a host on ABC's Good Things Utah. I am so excited to have met her and been able to take her picture!

 This is Heather Carlson. She is 5'10 and wears a size 10.

 

Amalia Andrews is 5'10 and wears size 11

 Valorie Draper coaches 3rd and 4th grade girl's Jr Jazz BB for Pleasant Grove. She has been coaching since college and loves helping kids of all ages learn the techniques of playing sports. She is taller then I (I forgot to ask) and wears a size 9 shoe.

 

  Erica Valgardson has a daughter playing Jr Jazz BB for Pleasant Grove. She has coached volleyball and basketball for about 5 years and loves to coach the younger girls teams. She is 6' tall and wears size 11 shoe. — with Erica Valgardson.