The Christmas period can be pretty quiet for businesses and pet photography is no exception. It’s a great opportunity to read some books, relax at home……and make an enormous mess outside with a DIY photography project. I’ve had a mild obsession with the www.instructables.com website for a few years, if you’ve never been there before …
Stray is a documentary by Elizabeth Lo, covering the lives of stray dogs living in Istanbul, Turkey. There is no narration and the low camera angles allow you to see experience things close to a dog’s level. While it’s primarily about street dogs, what this movie was really about to me was the connection between …
With the exception of an Afghan Hound, I’m not sure that the dog world contains a more beautiful breed than the Rough Collie. I just want to brush them and pat them and bury my face in their fur! These 2 handsome gentlemen are Newton (tan and white) and Galileo (tri-colour). We spent some time …
Everyone says or thinks this at some point in their dog’s life (or all the way through it) and sometimes this is enough for them to give up on ever having successful professional photos taken. My own dogs are a bag of nuttiness a large amount of the time; we had to give up on …
If there was one way to sum up In Defence of Dogs it is this: Dogs are not wolves. If there was one more it would be that wolves are wildly misunderstood. It’s not necessarily an easy read as it’s heavy on the science, but anthrozoologist and author Dr John Bradshaw has a lot of …
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Earlier this month the always fascinating podcast Ologies hosted Christina Hunger, a speech pathologist from California, and what she had to say about dog communication was inspiring! She had observed parallels between her young speech pathology patients and Stella the puppy’s communication to the point where she decided to begin her own communication experiments with …
