This body of work examines the bond between animals and their owners below the poverty line. Using field sketching, interviews with animal welfare clients, and hands-on collaboration with the Portland Animal Welfare (PAW) Team, I illustrated a series of drawings centered not only on the impoverished struggle, but also on anecdotes depicting day-to-day events and life prior to and after homelessness. In addition, I produced a supplementary book of developmental work that features resources for the poverty-stricken, as well as textual arcs from the interviewees. This is but a small start of a growing attempt to illuminate a group whose circumstances have eluded concrete statistics.