Perfect imperfection-pictures of handicapped pets

[Catherine]

These pet pictures are beautiful. All of the pets shown are damaged, some from birth and some from injury/illness, but all are much loved.
Their owners see them as beautiful so the photographer worked to show that beauty. I think he did an amazing job.

http://news.google.ca/news/url?sr=1&ct2=...t=2&at=dt0

When I think of the damaged pets I have lived with, all of them were beautiful. Their weaknesses made them more special. It is beautiful to see a photographer celebrate that. I am not alone in seeing my damaged pets as perfect. When you love something you see it as beautiful and somehow what you see becomes a reality through the power of love.

[Tobi]

Oh, every single one is beautiful! There is a time in the past when these lovely animals wouldn't have been given a second chance and would have been put to sleep for those imperfections....

Little Pip... he is my favourite!

[Catherine]

I liked little Pip. They were all beautiful and so happy to be alive.
I like the fact that their people love them and see them as perfect and wanted them to be photographed.

I had a picture of myself and my little handicapped guinea pig, Pigbert,
sent up on the last space shuttle mission. I was really proud of him for trying so hard all his life and always being so happy. It was our big imaginary journey together.

[Tobi]

You and dear Pigbert on the last space shuttle mission! That is very special indeed! A very beautiful thought, that you are both in space looking down on us! And little Pigbert might have been handicapped in THIS world, but he surely isn't in another!

[Catherine]

Pigbert's body wasn't much, but he had a brave heart and a strong spirit. I think it is his loving influence that keeps my piggies loving each other even after all these years. He has been gone 5 years.

I never saw him as broken(he couldn't walk). All I ever saw was the happy smile and the pretty face. In space it wouldn't matter that he couldn't walk. I didn't see Frodo's crossed eyes either. Love sees differently than the eyes.