Austin (KXAN) – wearing a button, rubber shoes and a good amount of clay, Cameron Shopk prepares its record in the iPhone and presses.
“Hi,” says on the screen, and it reaches a dog walking in the yard. Today, “Do you hang, we have Timothy. “
Timothy, a mixed, mixed, mixed dog with a flexible tongue and a shake tail, wanders-only to be clouded and “attached” to the air by Shopik.
He says: “O comrades you want this.
The post got dozens of shares and thousands of likes at the Shoppach Instagram account – username: doesitdangle. It is one of a series of similar videos on his page, as it raises large dogs, small puppies, cats and cats, then records their “hanging” ability.
As the assistant manager of the behavior team in Austin! Shoppach works with defensive or afraid animals to adjust the behavior to try to move them to a place where it can be adopted more easily. At the same time, spreading dogs on his popular personal account is often the exposure they need to find a permanent house.
He said: “It is a lot of just showing dogs that people look.”
The famous “Dangle” is starting as a joke.
“There is a mood test in cats. It has been exposed – it’s an old wives’ story – but there is a mood test in cats where you can capture them, and if they are sitting there and hanging, they have a good mood.” But I took one day, and I was somewhat attached there. And someone someone, “Oh my God, if you make Tiktok on this, you will go virus.” I am like, “well, whatever it was”, so I made a couple on Instagram – and ended with it with 50,000 followers in two months.
Despite its light origin, Schubik said that there are often a lot of invisible works that lead to the moment when a dog or feet of the cat is raised from the ground.
“By the time when you see a 20 -second length clip, or anything else, I sometimes spent months in building this relationship,” Schubach said.
The work resulted: It is estimated that the account raised tens of thousands of dollars and helped put dozens of dogs in permanent homes. While many content creators ignore the term “influential”, he said he loves it. His goal is to make people visit their local shelter to adopt, strengthen or volunteer.
“I changed my life”
Kate Duhon remembers the careful post that prompted her to register to volunteer at the Austin Animal Center.
“It was a dog wearing a cone in one of the lobby houses only asking for help, and the moment I said,” I must do something. “This is when I started giving my time. She laughs, looking at the bottom of the 95 -drilling rescue dog while sitting on her feet called Rick Ross.
It is known by the Rickrosssssssdawg username to approximately 30,000 followers at the Instagram account, which is run by Duhon. She shares videos about what looks like volunteering in Austin’s only open shelter-and of course, enjoying interesting updates to his new life with his family forever.
Duhon and Shoppach is just a network of volunteers and employees in the Austin region, where they were published about rescue animals and work to adopt them. Some work in caring for animals full time; Others – like Duhon – do it on the side.
As a mother of three children with a full -time job and a house full of dogs, Duhon insists that she is not a social media expert.
She said, “I just publish every day, in the hope of some positivity.” “Every dog has a story, and it is really important to highlight this story, because the shelter can be very overwhelming.”
Rick’s story fell in a notorious place: his face is printed on stickers on the water bottles in the neighborhood, and his publications got dozens of likes and comments. Duhon has allowed to help highlight the dogs that are more ignored: large dogs, black coats, and fatwa breeds.
Duhon said that she feels lucky to be able to stay in contact with some families that adopt these animals through social media.
She said, “I really changed my life in a positive way.”
“It deserves all this effort”
Not all content of these accounts are light -hearted.
One of the most virus ‘virus’ posts was distinguished by a dog called hazelnut, clearly drowned in the scenes and sounds of the shelter. Duhon’s video shows simply sitting with the puppy and relaxing it. It has more than 35,000 likes.
Shopik said that some of its best-performing videos have a multi-wheel-steering confidence process in a difficult situation-especially when an animal comes in the end. It is also open to how some of the heartfelt murder greeting facing compassionate murder causes his continued decline.
“This job is really difficult,” said Shubic, the passion fills his voice. “Yes … this function is really difficult. So, to know that you can make more than one person’s effect on a shelter that helps a handful of dogs – but instead it has an effect on hundreds of thousands of people and motivates them to do something – makes all this additional work worth it.”
He said in the end he wants to show the aspect of the welfare of the animals he experiences often: a happy dog jumps in his arms, with his tongue and his tail shake – hoping his story at a happy end.