What Is Your Dream Pet?

Our favorite Portland looks this week.

(Sam Gehrke)
(Sam Gehrke)

"Mine would be a Lapras from Pokémon."

(Sam Gehrke)

"A dingo."

(Sam Gehrke)

(Left) "I'd want a fluffy little cow. I think they call them woodland cows." (Right) "My dream pet is a teacup piglet."

(Sam Gehrke)

"Falkor from The Neverending Story, the flying dog that the kid rides around on."

(Sam Gehrke)

"Probably a leopard."

(Sam Gehrke)

"I've already got my dream pet right here!"

(Sam Gehrke)

"Man, I'd want a PaRappa the Rapper dog. And if he's not available, then a Yoshi."

(Sam Gehrke)

(Left) "You'd need to know Harry Potter, but I'd want a Pygmy Puff." (Right) "I'd want something I could fly around on, like a griffin. Since we're talking Harry Potter, let's say a Hippogriff."

Sam Gehrke

Sam Gehrke is a photographer born in Milwaukee, WI in 1990 and raised in Eugene, OR. He moved to Portland in 2016 to pursue photography, quitting his full time job and diving head first into an independent career. His work has since appeared in Vice Magazine, OPB, The Fader, Vortex Music Magazine and Premier Guitar Magazine.

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