Best Friends FOR LIFE

CandiCe White is a portrait photographer who says she is asked increasingly to shoot people’s pets. The snapshot she captured of her own pet, Clarence, late one night, portrays a proud cat with a rough-and-tumble lifestyle.

“He’s been in so many fights, his ears are battered, and most of his teeth are gone,” White says.

Clarence brings his master mice he kills, and he likes to sleep next to her in her bed at night. He likes being picked up, but he’s not fond of being petted.

White also has two old dogs, a 14-year-old Doberman named Jelly Bean and a 13-year-old lab named Daisy. She has a 15-year-old cat named Harley and a new one, an outside black-and-white cat she calls Catsby.

All of White’s pets have been found or rescued. She found Jelly Bean in Winnetka Heights when the dog was just 3 months old. She had distemper and rope marks around her neck from being tied up in someone’s yard.

“We nursed her back to health, and she’s been the best dog ever,” White says.

White volunteers at the Dallas Zoo and at spay and neuter clinics at Dallas Animal Services.

“I just love animals,” she says. “The unconditional love.”

Alice, the Catahoula mix

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Ryan Todd’s giRlfRiend wanTed a husky.

One day while he was working from home, his girlfriend, Liz Lampe, emailed him a picture of a husky she’d found in the Irving shelter.

He wasn’t that keen on the idea since huskies shed a lot, but he did want a “big dog” that he could take out in public, a pleasure he doesn’t get from his dachshund, Bear, who Todd says is “kind of a jerk. She only likes me.” oakcliff.advocatemag.com

So he went to the Irving shelter to get this husky for his girlfriend, but it already had been taken.

“I started walking around, and every dog was jumping up at the cage, either because they were excited to see me, or they seemed like they wanted to kill me,” he says.

Then he saw this blue merle dog lying in her cage, calm as a monk.

“I was like, ‘Oh, I can’t leave here without a dog,’ ” he says.

So he left with Alice, her “jail name,” and took her home.

Todd started skateboarding when he was about 14, and he still skated a couple of times a week for exercise. He read that Catahoula dogs are a working breed that needs an activity every day.

The first time he tried skating alongside her, it took about half a block before she was off and running.

“She just seemed to love it,” he says. “She gets so excited when it’s time to go. She almost screams as she goes down the street when we first get out.”

He started out skating from home in Winnetka Heights to Oddfellows for coffee. But now, Alice demands about two and a half miles a day.