This was a project dealing with social issues of the non-humans and humans of a neighborhood located on the south part of Bogotá, Colombia.

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It consisted on searching and recognizing the canine population of Venecia (name of the neighborhood), those dogs that stayed all day on the streets but had a family or those that were good cared and well known by all the residents but did not had a specific owner. The dogs were followed two entirely months, every day, to see how their lives were; they were sketched, photographed and important events of their daily life were written down in a logbook. The project had four main venues:



1. Show:  With all the collected information a map was made in the exhibition space to visualize the daily life activities of the dogs.



2. Events with the community: A Dog-Show held on the park of the neighborhood; vaccinating against rabies, deworming and giving them prizes (toys, leashes, food,  etc.)



3. Pedagogical Workshops: Three sessions of history of art mixed with painting and drawing, all focused on how artists have being inspired, conceived, loved and represented dogs since ancient times, were held in one school of the neighborhood with children aged 10 to 12 years.



4. Identification of Dogs: By the end of the project, around 20 of these dogs, that were risking of being collected by the Zoonoses Center of Bogotá and euthanized, were identified with red collars and yellow acrylic ID plates so that they were recognized as part of the community.