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Dodie

Sad news for Elaine. She lost Dodie to cancer on Saturday. She turned 12 years old on January 19th.

Dodie began competing in agility late in life, at the age of 9, and very quickly earned Q after Q to attain her ATChC in July 2008. She finished 2009 just 6 standard runs away from her Lifetime Achievement Award, in less than 3 years of competing, which was quite incredible. Dodie adored working with Elaine and was always happy running agility with her.

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January 27, 2010 - 3:49 pm Kathy Hodgson - That's terrible news.

January 26, 2010 - 1:35 pm Marian Baurenschmidt - Oh how sad for Elaine and Merlin - she will be missed. Marian

Website image update

Happy to report that my image has been taken down from the website in question and replaced by an image from  iStock.

For the record, I have no objections to my photos being used on websites as long as permission is asked, the image has been purchased and photo credit is given. Not too much to ask is it!

Just for fun, here’s the photo of Madge which caused the fuss in the first place. She was such a pretty and flamboyant dog.

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EDIT: The owner of the facility called me today to let me know that it had been taken care of, which was much appreciated.

I still don’t know where their website admin got the picture from, I may never know.

Image Theft

I was recently alerted to the fact that a doggie daycare in the GTA was using one of my photos on their website with no photo credit, and worse still – NO PERMISSION!

Contact info leaves much to be desired – no names of any of the staff on their website and just an “info@” email address. Sent an e-mail last week, no reply, so sent a second e-mail today.

The photo has obviously been lifted from one of my websites, as opposed to being scanned from a magazine as the exif is still intact with MY information included.

I would have still been oblivious if it wasn’t for a sharp-eyed friend alerting me to the image.

The moral of this story is – if you don`t want people using your images, don`t post them on the internet AT ALL. Or – if you do post them on the internet – watermark the heck out of them!

January 20, 2010 - 3:36 pm admin - I edited this post to remove the photo showing the website with my image in place as it has now been removed.

Happy New Year!

2010 is here and I’d like to wish everyone the best for the coming year!

January 15, 2010 - 7:16 pm Marian Baurenschmidt - Great shot Wendy.. Happy New Year! Marian

January 10, 2010 - 10:22 pm admin - Indy, Ivan, Tyra, Marco, Tanja

January 9, 2010 - 10:33 pm Michelle - Who are they all, I know Tanja at the end but I am confused with the rest of them.

Merry Christmas!

Twenty Below

What does one do when it’s minus 20 degrees celcius outdoors? One takes advantage of the sun and the snow – and takes photographs!

It’s hard to stay outside for long when it’s that cold. Especially when you’re as low to the ground as Clicker the Cairn Terrier is.

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Two Cattle Dogs and a Poodle

We had fun on Sunday when Louie, Skye and Blue came to vist.

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Schnauzers!

Saturday was a busy day, with 6 dogs coming to visit. Here’s Rebel, one of three schnauzers who came for a photo session.

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Christmas Cards

Decmber 3rd is the last date to order Christmas Cards and guarantee they’ll arrive back in time for you to mail them!

These two designs are available as 5×7 2-sided postcards, printed on Euro Art Silk card stock. They come in packs of 25, including envelopes and cost $50 per set. Text is fully customizable.

Cards can also be produced as folded 5×7 with photo design front and back and optional text inside the cards. They are also available in sets of 25 and cost $75.

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Jasmine

Pretty little Jasmine came over for a photo session today. Here’s a sneak peek for Lyne.

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