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Art Gone to the Dogs…and Cats

You might remember the big cow statues that were seen around Houston years back. They were eventually auctioned off for charity. Well, a new art exhibit is borrowing the idea on a larger scale — or smaller depending on how you look at it. PAWS for a PURRpose features more than 40 mostly life-sized dog […]

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cats-wideYou might remember the big cow statues that were seen around Houston years back. They were eventually auctioned off for charity.

Well, a new art exhibit is borrowing the idea on a larger scale — or smaller depending on how you look at it.

PAWS for a PURRpose features more than 40 mostly life-sized dog and cat sculptures decorated by Texas artists. They’re on display through Aug. 31 at South Texas College of Law downtown, and they’ll be auctioned off at an event Nov. 7, with proceeds benefitting the Texas Humane Legislation Network and South Texas College of Law Animal Clinic. Michael Hagerty took a tour of the exhibit.

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Michael Hagerty is the senior producer for Houston Matters. He's spent more than 20 years in public radio and television and dabbled in minor league baseball, spending four seasons as the public address announcer for the Reno Aces, the Triple-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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