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  • Matriarch of a western family has a ride along canine companion.
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  • Riverfront Canine Club members pause along the Dequindre Cut.
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  • A widow looks forward to the ritual of checking her mailbox daily. Her faithful canine companion Leica waits patiently along the snowy road in the Alps.
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  • A dog rides in the saddle on the back of a horse at the Extreme Mustang Makeover. The wild horse had bonded with the canine as a companion. Riders waited their turn to enter the ring.
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  • A U.S. Customs Service agent plays with a search dog near trucks crossing at the Mexican border.<br />
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The Canine Enfocement Program is used to combat terrorism, interdict narcotics, and other contraband while helping to facilitate and process legitimate trade and travel.
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  • A dog treat motivates a canine to exercise. Large pets dogs are illegal, so this woman exercises her pet inside on a treadmill in a pet spa.
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  • A hunter, carries a rifle bushmeat followed by his dogs. He provides monkey meat to the town and surrounding community. Estimates are that between 30 and 85% of daily protein intake of Africans comes from bushmeat. <br />
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Population growth and the commercialization of the trade in bushmeat creates hunting pressure upon wild animal populations. Wildlife numbers are rapidly declining, and there are concerns that animal diseases may be transmitted to humans.
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  • Children play on swings in the town park above the marina in Thorne Bay on Prince of Wales Island.
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  • A pet lover with her dog holds out a treat while a dog with big ears peers out from a television screen.
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  • Walking in Lummus Park along Ocean Drive in South Beach.
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  • Dot, a former wild horse, patiently waits under a guard dog's watchful eye as a sheepherder checks on the animals in his care.<br />
After the mustang was trained by prison inmates, the horse was sold at auction. He earned respect the first week on the ranch in the Wyoming range when he found his way back to the corral in a blizzard saving the life of his mount.
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  • A boy closes the gate when the family returns from a walk. Homesteaders have a rustic home and a rich life in Edna Bay on Kosciusko Island off of the northwestern side of Prince of Wales Island. Edna Bay started as a logging camp in the 1940s.
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  • Cross country skier glides along side his dog as snow falls on frozen Mendenhall Lake surrounded by trees at the base of the glacier in Alaska's Southeast.
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  • A Native Alaskan family crosses a stream while hiking with their dog through the woods. They are headed back to their fish camp on Lisianski Peninsula on the west coast of Baranof Island.
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  • A family sets up racks to dry salmon and prepares it for smoking at a Native Alaskan Tlingit fish camp at Dog Point near Sitka.
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  • Girlfriends cuddle puppies that bring them joy in a family's barn in the Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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  • Border collies are trained to help manage sheep.
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  • Border collies received affection on a ranch they help manage.
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  • Border collies on a ranch they help manage.
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  • A man on the porch gives a treat to his dog who performs a trick while a child and her grandmother sit in chairs on the lawn.
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  • Judy Bonds was an environmental activist that fought mountaintop removal mining in West Virginia. Daughter of a coal miner, Bonds was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her efforts to end contamination to drinking water and destruction of rivers and forests. Outside her home she cuddles her dog as a white-tailed deer grazes nearby.
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  • Dogs swim and retrieve balls in a designated area in Prospect Park's Dog Beach. Brooklyn, NY locals use the dog-friendly acres of green space for special off-leash hours at the Long Meadow, Nethermead, Peninsula Meadow and, during those hours, even a place to swim.
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  • Suri women building a hut in a village outside of Tulgit.
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  • Building a new hut in Tulgit for the village representative.
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  • Residents of a remote village  in Kamchatka rush to meet the supply helicopter. Original inhabitants Khailino are indigenous. Dogs run wild in the street and locals on board a motorcycle race to try to get a woman on board to be taken where she can get medical attention. <br />
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In Northern Kamchatka, indigenous Koryak people and Russians came for “Northern money” when the Soviet Union wanted to tame the area. Income paid was eight times more than a similar job in Moscow, so some people figured out how to get all the necessary permits to work. When default happened, no one in the remote outposts received salaries.  People made a living from salmon caviar and created fishing brigades with distribution systems. Living in a very small community of 700 residents, and the temperatures drop to –40° in the winter, everyone works hard to merely survive and are kind to each other.
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  • Hyena cubs and other animals are becoming used to tourists.
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  • Refugee Pygmy children and sleeping puppies surround a charred campfire.
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  • The Mbuti ferry the portable details of their lives from camp to camp. The semi-nomadic tribe hunts and gathers in the Ituri Forest to survive.
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  • Winged bulls and lions with human faces stand guard at the Gates of Nimrud.
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  • Local people try to extract their truck stuck in the monsoon mud.
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  • A coyote snarls in this close view.
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  • A black lab named Cooper with a turtle in his mouth.
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  • A white, miniature poodle gets a bath in a small blue bucket by a worker at a pet spa.
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  • A pet lover grooms one of her dogs and sits in her apartment with a friend.
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  • China's only full-time pet photographer kisses one of three Chow Chows wearing hats and scarves..
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  • This couple is training their pet on their friend’s treadmill because they fear if they take the dog outside for a walk, they risk having it beaten to death in front of them by a policeman. Beijing at the time of this photo had a "one dog policy." The dog on the treadmill is a Siberian Husky and police cracked down on large dog ownership. <br />
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Owners of big dogs that live within the sixth ring in Beijing and have an illegal pet have purchased treadmills after the crackdown began. Pets were pulled out of the hands of their crying owners. A group protested in front of the zoo because there was suspicion that some of the dogs were being fed to the tigers. The activists claim dog owners tried to take policemen to dinner to bribe them, but it did not work. They believe the policemen sold some of the nice animals and sent the rest to the zoo.
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  • Suwannee Cafe is a hub of activity day and night in the small community on the Gulf of Mexico.
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  • A horse cart on a road passing an abandoned granary and church.
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  • The religious community of Georgian Dukhobors relocated near Tambov.
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  • A couple at at a table visit with a friend and his dog.
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  • Two Pyrenees guard dogs herd sheep on the Wyoming range at sunrise.
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  • A former wild horse, adopted and trained, now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder and his dog. Owners find that mustangs are sure-footed on a trail and spook less than domesticated horses.
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  • Swede, a float house owner, bows farewell to guests as they leave for the evening near Prince of Wales Island.
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  • Cradling his puppy, “Meatball,” a youth hangs out on the dock of the float house. The family built their home off the coast of Prince of Wales Island which is only accessible by float plane or by boat. The houses are characteristic of Southeast Alaska, tied down with ropes and floating on the water in an isolated bay.<br />
Life in remote Alaska offers adventures and an atypical lifestyle rich in experiences.
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  • A man and his dogs drive by in a pickup truck to check out strangers in Coffman Cove. The community is located in Prince of Wales, Hyder County in Alaska with a 2020 population of 168. It is the 110th largest city in Alaska and the 17,162nd largest city in the United States.
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  • Japanese tourists view the Matterhorn and pose for photos with the iconic St. Bernard dogs in the Alps. Around two million tourists visit annually to Switzerland's most popular destination nearby Zermatt.
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  • Beloved icons, St. Bernard dogs were once indispensable for their abilities to save people buried by avalanches. Although replaced by modern equipment, traditions die hard and the dogs are maintained as a tourist attraction.  200 years ago St Bernard dogs saved 45 of Napoleon’s soldiers buried in an avalanche—the dog was bayoneted to death when one soldier thought he was being attacked by a bear.  St. Bernards are cared for by a foundation in Martigny, France.
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  • A coyote stares from leafy cover.
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  • Border collies received affection on a ranch they help manage.
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  • A rancher moves cattle with the help of a herding border collie.
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  • A man walking his dogs stops to talk to one on Gapstow Bridge which crosses The Pond in Manhattan's Central Park.
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  • Young puppies learn to associate the horn with food as Rhoda Hopkins uses condi tioning to train the future fox hunters for the Old Chatham Hunt Club.
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  • Procession of the Old Chatham Hunt Club to the village square for the blessing of the hounds.
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  • Nuns walk through a cobblestone passage inside Santa Catalina Convent. They are  followed by a dog that greets them while wandering freely the convent.
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  • .A dog watches over as Russian fishermen pull in the nets from a fishing brigade on the Bolshaya River. Strict work hours at the mouth of the river allow some of the salmon can pass through to Kanchatka’s indigenous camps further upstream. <br />
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The fish have gone into a dormant state because they have been in the net so long. This was the first great push of salmon—the storm had just passed, the tide was out and the water had cleared enough that all salmon make a mad dash upriver.
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  • A dog relaxes in a motorcycle's sidecar.<br />
Kamchatka has remote village life where during the summer, locals race around in ancient former Soviet motorbikes with sidecars. It is normal to see the family dog tagging along.
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  • The commercial Fishing Brigade outside of Sobolevo, Russia, fish the Vorovskaya River, ironically, the same river from which they offload supplies for the pipeline that will eventually destroy their salmon runs.  But at the end of the first big push, their nets are so full of salmon that they can’t immediately load them onto the trucks.  So while fish are in the holding pen, the truck driver has time to play with his dog. <br />
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Commercial fishing is allowed 40 to 60 percent of the fish run every year in Kamchatka.  Poaching can take nearly as much, so on a good year only 20 percent of they fish escape to breed again.
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  • Hyenas on the Serengeti, twilight view.
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  • Warm, well-dressed dogs and tourist families wait for a race to begin on frozen Lake Saint Moritz. The Engadine valley hosts winter competitions such as skijoring where a skier is pulled by horses or dogs and a cross country or Nordic skiing marathon race.
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  • Two men with dogs sitting in mud along a road as a storm approaches.
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  • A truck stuck in a muddy road with people standing about watching.
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  • A group of Australians cooling off in a patch of flooded road.
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  • Shark-hunting dogs help control the local shark population on Palmyra.
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  • Eugene Miller takes his hunting dogs to a fox pen where he lets them run all ni ght, Thomasville, Missouri, Ozark Mountains area.
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  • This is the Ust Bolsheretsk area at the height of fishing season along the Bolshaya river.  These fishing brigades use tractors to tow one end of the net and then bring it around full circle in the river to cinch in the fish. The net is then dumped into small boats that have nets laid in them that the crane uses to pick them up and dump them into trucks that go to the processing plants in Ust Bolsheretsk.  This brigade is working in this area that is south of Oktyabrski.
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  • Koryak residents of Khailino, Kamchatka, Russia, rush to get their mother to the poacher's helicopter so she can get medical treatment in Petropavlovsk. The poaching situation in these areas allows some individuals to pay for helicopter time and on return trips the helicopter is often empty. If you know poachers it's possible, in this case, to get medical care.
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  • An adopted former wild horse now works the Wyoming range with a sheepherder and dogs.<br />
Dot, white mustang, was trained by prison inmates and then bought by rancher owners at a public auction. The docile horse earned his keep one week later when he saved the life of a shepherd who was lost in a blinding snow storm. The rider dropped the reins trusting the horse to find his way back home in spite of the blizzard.
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  • Campers and canine soak off springtime heat at Indian Creek Canyon, south of Moab, Utah. A magnet for climbers, the area is famous for its climbing routes, especially slit-like "cracks." But the canyon hosts few of the crowds that nearby Canyonlands National Park receives as tourists visit the American Southwest.
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  • A rancher on horseback accompanied by his dog drives a herd a sheep through the open range and grasses of the high desert in Oregon's Steens Mountain.
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