By:Matt Hogue

I met Michael OrapelloandRoxane M Shepherdsthrough a tag on their facebook post from a friend who follows their page where they were looking for a photographer for their pack of Shepherds and to say I stumbled upon a little hidden fairy tale story of some of the most bad ass people you could imagine… just doesn’t seem to really set the tone as good as I wish It could!

Michael ex-New York police officer turned Shepard of Shepherds, moved to Alabama with the idea that “I’ll move to Alabama where its quiet and retire” but what he found was everything but quiet!!!

He found one Shepherd after the next in dire need and he wasn’t going to just ignore them, he chose to act… So?? The pack continued to grow. Not only did his pack grow but he met Roxane through all of this. Someone who also has the heart the size of a German Shepherd herself! Someone who has now become pack mama or Queen of the pack if you will!!

Roxane was strong enough to share with me that she’s in recovery from alcoholism and how much the pack not only means to her but how grateful she is to them for being the anchor to her sobriety and how she chooses everyday, one day at a time to keep coming back and she does it not only for herself but for the pack as a whole and that to me is the mindset of a true Queen!

The energy of the pack itself is something to behold but the energy of Michael and Roxane intermingling within the pack as accepted members, saviors and leaders was something of an entirely different level of energy that just can’t be explained with words. That’s where I come in!!

So everyone, it is my honor to introduce you all to…my Two….. no…… EIGHTEEN of my newest friends! Michael, Roxane and 16 of the most beautiful and well behaved Rescued family members…. The PACK of Misfit Shepherds!!!!

Please share the heck outta this and go follow their page because they need all the love they can get so they can find better resources to care for all of these babies that so many others have given up on. They’ve proven time and time again that its not the dog, its the owner who makes a “bad” dog. The dogs just want to be loved and thats exactly what they’ve given them!

So please go show them how we roll at Nikon Ninja Photographyand go like their page! My followers are some of the most loving people and this is a page that deserves some of that love!!!