Dogs usually fetch newspapers or get trained on them.

But Will Kurtz has taken the medium much further — by recycling old papers to make life-size sculptures of real dogs seeking forever homes.

The artist’s new show, “Every Dog Has Its Day,” opens Thursday night at the Avant Gallery in Hudson Yards. Three of his doggie models, all of them up for adoption at the Humane Society of New York, will be there that night from 6 to 8.

“It was his idea,” Sandra DeFeo, the rescue organization’s executive director, told The Post. She says he went to the Humane Society last week, photographed and measured several dogs who are up for adoption.

“After going through adoption agencies and shelters to find my dog, I realized how many dogs and cats there are out there that need a home,” the Brooklyn-based artist told The Post.

A former landscape architect, Kurtz found Abbie, a chihuahua terrier mix he says looks like “a gremlin,” at another shelter.

He developed a technique that involves making a wood and wire armature to which he tapes old newspaper. Rather than paint his sculptures, he uses colorful newspaper ads he affixes with a hot-glue gun.

One of Kurtz’s canine models is Bob, a 3-year-old dachshund someone rescued from Brazil and brought to New York for medical attention. “He’s a wonderful, friendly, housebroken fellow but he’s missing some hair,” DeFeo says.

Also up for adoption is Einstein, a 4-year-old schnauzer-poodle mix whose wiry hair suggests he’s part terrier. That, DeFeo says, and the fact that he’s “really fun, energetic, but needs to go with someone who has the time to play with him.”

And then there’s Maria, an 8-year-old mini-pinscher left behind when her family moved but couldn’t take her, who just needs to lose “a pound or two,” DeFeo says, to be perfect.

Kurtz’s sculptures, priced from $5,000 to $35,000, are for sale, with part of the proceeds going to the Humane Society of New York.

The real dogs can be adopted for about $350.