“Saving Fantasia” sounds like a Disney movie in the making.
Fantasia the dog was inside the Rebury Farm Animal Shelter in western Sydney and due to be put down when a photoseries was uploaded to Facebook that changed the path of her life.
In a photo shared on a local photographer's Facebook, Fantasia (left) was shown playing with another dog, Frankie, through a fence at the kennel. The photo also included information on Fantasia's situation and stated how important it was that she be adopted as soon as possible.
Fantasia was rejected from several prospective adopters once Frankie (pictured right) was adopted, as she developed reactive behaviour to other dogs because of the stress of the pound environment.
Shannon Maguire saw the photo of Fantasia and immediately started campaigning to have her saved.
"I run a separate Facebook page," Shannon told BuzzFeed News, "and it has over 1800 followers. I'm using it to help dogs that go missing, and through it was able to get a lot of attention for Fantasia."
Shannon said that it was only a few hours before Fantasia was set to be killed that a relative stranger, Michael Marsellos, responded to her campaign and offered his house as temporary accommodation for Fantasia.
The Renbury Pound appreciated the efforts made to get Fantasia adopted, and pushed the date Fantasia was to be killed back two days.
“If Michael hadn’t come along to offer the possibility of foster care, she wouldn’t be with us," she said.
A Facebook page was set up, with a video and various updates showing how the campaign was going.
Shannon said it was thanks to her friend, Jo, whose Facebook page is dedicated to taking photos of rescue dogs to increase the chance they get adopted, that Fantasia was able to be saved.
"Jo dedicated one day a week to take photos of rescue dogs and she takes photos of the dogs there to get them a much better chance of being adopted," she said.
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