These dogs with mustaches and eyebrows and beards make you think they are philosophers, essayists, art historians, etc., and you want to set them up in front of a library and photograph them there.

Unfortunately we don't have a library in the shelter. Anyway.

This is Ricky, and he's as wise as any dog out there, no more. At least not as far as we know.

He's a little scared at the moment, and he's a little wary, but he still approaches you to smell you very close to the face, walks you on a leash, and takes some more time to fully trust and become a happy dog.

He is very young and has his whole life ahead of him to learn and do all this, and much more.