These gorgeous puppies certainly knew how to play up for the camera when photographer Shawn Smits visited them in Ballan this week.
The pups are part of the next generation of seeing eye dogs for the blind under a program run by Seeing Eye Dogs Australia.
With all costs covered by SEDA, people can care for a pup from eight weeks old to the first year of their life. More information at seda.visionaustralia.org/
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