"It's sad that they don't have a home."
Samuël, on why he wants to do thisIn every country Samuël cycles through he stops at a local animal shelter, and in some cities at more than one. Seventy seven along the whole route. He films one dog, learns their name, and tells their story in his own words.
Donations are not the point. Adoptions are. Samuël hopes that every dog he films ends up somewhere warm with people who wanted them. Money helps a shelter keep going. A home changes everything.
No money ever passes through us. Whatever anyone gives goes straight to the people looking after that dog, in their own country and their own currency.
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The first shelter is right here in Málaga, weeks before the journey starts. Samuël will walk in, find one dog, learn their name and hear how long they have been waiting.
We do not know yet who that dog will be. Neither does he.
Every story about shelter dogs ends the same way. You see the dog behind the fence, you feel something, and then it stops. You never find out what happened.
Did you adopt a dog you first saw in one of these films? Send us a photo. Where they sleep now, what they are like once they stop being scared, what you ended up calling them. By then we will be three countries further down the road, so we cannot come and see for ourselves.
We will share it with everyone who watched that dog wait. One photo from a living room says more than anything we could film ourselves.
Every dog also gets a place on The Dogs, a page that starts empty on 15 November and fills up one dog at a time. Adopted ones get their sofa photo next to the shelter photo. The rest keep waiting there until somebody turns up.
A healthy dog gets noticed. A noticed dog gets adopted. That is the chain, and it starts with somebody seeing them at all.
We are riding from Málaga through Morocco, Europe, Turkey, Asia and beyond, looking for shelters along that road. Not the biggest ones. The ones nobody films.
If you look after dogs somewhere on that route, write to us. Tell us where you are. If we can reach you, we will come.