Artist immortalizes 5,500 Shelter Dogs by Painting Each Of Their Portraits Before They Are Put Down

Mark Barone of Louisville, Kentucky hopes to spread awareness about the no-kill shelter alternative using the sad faces of euthanized dogs Barone was inspired to do the project after learning that 5,500 dogs are put to sleep in the U.S. every day He paints 10 portraits per day and is 3,500 paintings into the project he hopes to make into a museum dailymail