Paws Around the World

The Dogs

At every shelter he films one dog and tells their story. Fifty-six on the route, and one before he leaves. It started with Pandora, three months before departure. Watching this page fill up is the whole point.
1Filmed
0Adopted
56Still waiting
Every dog he meets

It started with one

Waiting
Málaga, Spain · Dog zero

Pandora

Two years in a shelter. Four years old. Three legs. She still runs.
Pandora was rescued from the pound two years ago. Her front leg could not be saved. Everything else about her works: she runs, she plays, she brings the ball back.

She has been waiting two years for someone to take her home. She can be adopted from anywhere in the world.
Adopt Pandora →

Fifty-six still to come

If you follow along, you meet each dog on the day he does. This page always runs behind.

Every dog here is one Samuel stood in front of, in a shelter that exists. The first one was Pandora, in Málaga, before he left. The rest come one country at a time.

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Want to adopt?

How to give a dog
a home

Watch

The films go out on Instagram and YouTube, and every dog lands on this page.
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Contact the shelter

Follow the link on the card. It takes you to the shelter, not to us.
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Take them home

If it works out, a dog who was behind a fence in the morning is asleep on your floor by the evening.

Samuel films a dog and points you at the people who look after them. Everything after that, the rules, the paperwork and the decision, happens between you and the shelter.

Happy ending

Did you adopt one
of these dogs?

Send us a photo of them at home and it goes straight onto their card, right next to the shelter photo. Same dog, different life.

That is the only way this page ever gets to say adopted instead of still waiting.

Send us your photo →

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Two pots.
Never mixed.

There are two ways to help here, and they are kept completely separate. Nothing crosses over.
Pot one · The dogs
Money for a dog goes straight to the shelter that feeds them, through the link on their card. It never passes through our hands and we never touch a cent of it.
Support a shelter →
Pot two · The road
Every dog on this page lives somewhere Samuel still has to reach by bike. This pot buys food, beds and visas for 594 days. It is what gets him to the next shelter.
Support the road →