This guy’s ex-wife left him with nothing but a dog. So this is what he did…

by pawbuzz on in Dogs 418

Rafael Mantesso’s wife left him on his 30th birthday. She took everything with her: the cookware, the furniture and furnishings, all their photos — everything. The only thing she left Rafael was the dog, a bull terrier named Jimmy Choo.

’With only Jimmy for company, I found inspiration in my blank walls and my best friend and started snapping photos of Jimmy Choo as he trotted and cavorted around the house in glee.

When Jimmy collapsed in happy exhaustion next to the white wall, I grabbed a marker and drew a new world around my ginger-eared pup. Suddenly, I felt this long-dormant inspiration for drawing — for art, for life — returning,’ recounts Rafael.

Soon, he’d made a whole series of photographs depicting various funny scenes with Jimmy. Now Rafael and his best friend have over 200,000 followers on Instagram, and in October a book is set to come out featuring the best photos of Jimmy.

You can’t help but be inspired by Rafael’s inexhaustible optimism — and his dog’s!

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  14. Brad Cohn

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    I was overseas in the Air Force when I got divorced. We were kids and she wasn’t ready to be married, so no hate. I did however get to keep my long hair dachshund (Bridgette) and she was my world for those two years I had left to serve in Turkey (I loved that assignment, the people were wonderful). Then I brought her home and we enjoyed another 12 years together with my new wife and my son (really her son, but I raised him with his mom, so he is my son and he really loved Bridgette) .

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