Helping Both Species Find Love One Picture at A Time

By Gabby Morales

Ginger Monteleone is a photographer from Miami who has a very important story behind her work. She shoots high priced condos, fancy yachts for sale, and mansions in Miami, but her most important work came when she found a pit bull stray named Cali. When Ginger realized that she could not keep Cali, she took it upon herself to find her a home by doing something she had done as a professional, take pictures. These were no ordinary pictures that showed Cali in distress or a state of deep sadness. These were pictures that showed happiness, playfulness and unconditional love. Ginger decided to make it her mission to find Cali a good home and posted Cali’s pictures on Facebook. The rest seemed to happen by magic. Right after Ginger posted the pictures of Cali, a family contacted her and asked to take Cali in and give her a home. They had fallen in love with Cali with just one picture.

Now, this has happened to hundreds of dogs that are in need of a home and Ginger has offered her services to the Animal Rescue in order to get both dogs and humans alike that unconditional love that bonds both species together.


Ginger presents to us what it is to, again, think outside the box and create a simple change in order to help both animals and humans. She had the skills and she put them to good use in a situation where life is always at stake. She’s brought change to those who cannot speak for themselves and has been acting in a way which follows the PD approach in order to help not one, but two species. She made a decision to help breeds that have the most difficultly finding homes. Big dogs are usually not adopted and as a consequence are left behind. While Ginger’s focus is on larger dogs, that does not mean that small dogs don’t get their picture taken, but people usually tend to adopt smaller dogs than large ones. She has also worked to save pit bulls which are banned in Miami. With her photography skills they have been able to rescue 30 pit bulls dogs and people have adopted 19 of them.


Ginger’s influence has hit other photography groups like MRyan Hollowell Photography from Rossford, Ohio and DogStreet Pet Photography in Sarasota, Florida. This idea is spreading and is helping animals that only want a chance at a happy life. The same goes for people. This way of photographing these furry creatures has led to many happy endings.


Ideas spread and these PDs are making a difference in everyone’s lives because after all, what is life without love?