The Dog Files: 5/5 Milkbones!

A few weeks back, a fellow member of the TWiT Forums posted a new thread, asking for opinions about his new podcast, The Dog Files. Although I've been in a sans canine home for too many years, I love dogs and anything about them piques my interest. The Dog Files is probably one of the best video podcasts I've ever seen; from both a production and a content standpoint.

The video is extremely well produced, it hits all of the right technical notes - lighting, audio, storyline, use of CG. More importantly, it scores big on content - the first episode, about a doggie ice cream social was delightfully whimsical, particularly the completely unscripted comments by an elderly lady and her companion who came to play with the dogs because they're "very old now."

The most recent edition, about the rescue efforts of Rawhide Rescue, a shelterless dog rescue operation in New Jersey, is heartwarming without being sappy or sentimental. The video tells the story of a group of volunteers who works with P.E.T.S., another rescue group that brings unwanted puppies and full grown dogs up from the South (where, apparently, spaying and neutering are not accepted practices). Rawhide Rescue takes some of these dogs, and working with a local kennel, gets them ready for adoption.

Rawhide Rescue is a self-funded operation and it can use all the help it can get. Same with The Dog Files - the content is free, but content creation is not. Skip a few lattes this week and donate $5 to each group, please.