Art Has Gone to the Dogs

No, that’s not just a tired cliche, either.

The owner of a fledgling dog-training academy in Salisbury has come up with a bizarre money-raising scheme.

Mary Stadelbacher figured that if she could teach dogs to become service animals for the disabled, why couldn’t she teach them to hold a paintbrush and swab a piece of art? Two years later, the owner of Shore Service Dogs has a collection of abstract paintings created by her three service dogs in training. Twenty of the works are being shown this month at a gallery at Salisbury University.

The doggie DaVincis also have a line of greeting cards that has sold out as word spreads about the unusual works of art. One of the original works has sold for 350 dollars.

No, sorry, it’s not “abstract art”, it’s random art. It’s just a matter of time until someone claims that the dogs are supposedly saying something with their art, likely having to do with climate change or nuclear war.

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