When I think about it, the possibilities are endless. I have unknowingly stumbled upon an important new thing for me, for those of you with dogs, for my writing and my blog: Dog Sharing.

We all know how much dog lovers like to brag and talk about their dogs, I’ve often fled those conversations, but this is an exciting and valuable way to do it.

I am surprised and thrilled by the thousands of people who have responded to my request to share images of their dogs with me on Facebook and on my blog. I’m going to jump aboard this train. I’ve read just about everyone of these posts.

Today I’m asking to share images of our rescue dogs. I went first, with Bud.

Next week and beyond, our older dogs, our puppies, or working dogs and herding dogs, our therapy dogs and Helldog dogs, our lifetime dogs and dead dogs, our funny dogs and loony dogs, rescue dogs and purebred dogs. I’m just beginning to grasp the potential here.

Everyone is welcome in this Dog Sharing World, no cliques, lessons, squabbles or pious judgments permitted.

This is not just fun, it is important. For years, I’ve shared the stories and lives of my dogs with you, but you have not been able to share your dogs with me. I have looked at everyone one of these dogs and the comments about them, I’ve learned more about dogs in two posts than in years of research.

This is, I think, good for you and good for me. This began with my posting a photo of what I thought were Fate and Red and Bud “pleading” to go out. I asked for “pleading” images got nearly 600 images sent to me within hours.

I am a huge fan of what I call non-invasive interactivity. This is it, at last!

I don’t want the blog to only be about dogs, but I do want it to often be about dogs.

This new technology can be hatful and intrusive, or wonderful and connecting.

On the dog-sharing posts, there is no “left” or “right.” We are all human beings who love dogs, and who love to talk about them, write about them, and show them to other people. Every time I heard someone talk about their dog, I ask if they have photos, and of course, they all do, they pull out their phones and show them to me.

It is valuable to me to see these images, I learn from what the dogs look like, what people say about them. I’ve rarely struck so deep and uplifting a nerve, people by the scores are thanking me, so I want to keep it going, weekly, or even daily, if the traffic supports it.

I start today with an image of Bud, our newest rescue dog.

This is, I believe, a healthy, loving, healing in our fractious time. Please don’t e-mail me your images ( I am drowning in e-mail and can’t read them all, plus Facebook comments), Facebook is the only easily accessible way for me to do this, I can’t do it on all platforms, I am sorry.)

My blog feeds onto Facebook, the Jon Katz page, you can see them the posts there. I so understand that some of you aren’t on Facebook, and others don’t like Facebook. But I can’t help it.

One thing I can and will do is instantly delete and ban anyone who posts a nasty or angry message of any kind. I love doing that, it helps clean the muck out of the Internet.

So far, there hasn’t been one nasty post, which is remarkable in itself.

So let’s see if we can create a new reality with our Dog Sharing Experiment, I want to see how far it can go. I’m in.