This Is Me…Humphrey
Taney County, Missouri
9/23/2026
VERIFIED REAL by 2 Traveling Dogs | THIS IS…ME
This is a real dog. A real photo. A real story. Not an Al-generated dog or rescue story. Our new “This Is…Me” verification project exists because real rescue dogs deserve to be seen, believed and rescued. Every dog we verify has a real life behind the picture-and that life matters.
This is Humphrey. I know what you’re thinking. I know I’m a big boy and you wonder if you can handle me. I know you can, because I’m big on love. I may not have always believed that because in my short time on this earth, people seem to be afraid of my size. But I don’t let it get me down. I hope the right person will come for me soon, because I would like a big couch to lay on. I think I have big things to accomplish in life. And I hope that someone sees who I am and who I can be.
Humphrey is a male German Shepherd mix who is approximately 1 year and 6 months old. He is listed as medium-sized with a brown coat. His housetraining status is currently unknown. His Animal ID is 61754886, and he arrived at the shelter on September 18, 2026. He is currently listed as AVAILABLE.
When contacting the shelter, please have the dog’s name and animal ID number available so the staff can help you with current availability and adoption information.
📍 Taney County Animal Control
255 Critter Trail
Hollister, MO 65672
📞 Phone: (417) 332-0172
📠 Fax: (417) 332-2672
🕐 Hours: Monday–Saturday, 12:00 PM–4:00 PM
Closed Sundays and holidays.
ARE YOU A SHELTER OR RESCUE?
We want to hear from you. Shelters and rescue organizations can submit a real animal who needs more eyes on them for This Is…Me at rachael@2travelingdogs.com with the subject line THIS IS ME: [ANIMAL’S NAME]. Please include the animal’s name, photos or original post, location, shelter or rescue name, current adoption/contact information and, most importantly, something about who that animal really is beyond what is written on the kennel card. Tell us what makes them funny, special, ridiculous, loving or completely unforgettable. There is no charge to shelters or rescues to submit an animal. We’ll do our best to verify the information and help tell their story to our audience.
This is exactly why we created This Is…Me — Seen. Believed. Rescued. Somewhere in a shelter today is a real dog like Beauty waiting for a real person to notice them. At a time when AI-generated animals, stolen photographs and recycled rescue stories can make it difficult to know what is real online, we want to help real shelter animals be seen, believed and given the chance to go home.
Every This Is…Me story takes time to research, verify, write and share. You can help us keep doing that by sponsoring a rescue dog for $35. You can choose the state, and your name, your dog’s name, your family or an In Memory Of name can be included with the dog’s story as the person who made it possible.
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And if you cannot help financially, you can still do something incredibly important: share Beauty. Share her story. Share her face. Help us put a real shelter dog in front of one more real person who might be the person she has been waiting for.
Beauty is real. Her story matters. And somewhere out there may be the family who needs to see her today.
THIS IS…ME.
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