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.

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.

Madge

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.

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!

I hope the owners are as pleased as I am with the result.

There’s still time to order a portrait as a Christmas gift, or book a mini session for Christmas cards, but time is running out!