Fresh tears-of-joy dispatch — May 21, 2026
This soul-punching, adoption-inspiring duo recently exploded across social media, nailing the heartbreaking reality faced by countless unwanted dogs languishing in shelters all over the globe.
UK artist Amber Fossey — better known to the internet as Zeppelinmoon — reveals that ‘Waiting’ and ‘Chosen’ form a kind of two-part story. ‘I first drew Waiting to raise awareness that greyhounds and black dogs were the most likely to be rejected at animal shelters and so wait the longest,’ she says. ‘The response was enormous, with people begging for a happy ending — that’s why I created Chosen. Since then, so many kind souls have shared their rescue-dog stories with me, and again and again it turns out the dogs actually saved THEM.’
ceremonial paw — Fingers crossed for a flood of happy endings for all the good dogs still out there, waiting.
Zeppelinmoon, aka Amber Fossey
Fossey’s road to art is anything but ordinary. She trained as a medical doctor at UCL and once worked in forensic psychiatry before, in 2017, pivoting to tuck themes of radical compassion for every creature into her whimsical paintings. She crafts watercolours of gloriously ‘badass’ animals and illustrates her own stories, insisting all life forms are sentient and fiercely championing the rejected and endangered. Hunting for her? You’ll likely spot her up a tree somewhere in South-East England, pretending to be a sloth and gossiping with the crows. Catch her atzeppelinmoon.com.
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