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Welcome to some DOGONFUNNY® stories!
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 This page was created for you and for everyone who has ever loved a pet! We've never met any pet owner who doesn't have dozens of cute and funny stories about their dog, cat, bird, or other beloved family critter! We hope that you will help us to collect this treasury of "tails". Below you'll find a story from our cherished memories that we hope will get you started! Then, you can write your own wonderful story and send it to us! We will read all submissions and pick the best to post online. If we plan to use your story, we will contact you for your OK!
Please Note: The photos on this page were done by our own dogonfunny® photographer. The photos described in the story that follows are copyrighted images, and we have not sought permission to reproduce them! |
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The Photo Shoot
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 Lucky and Penny, the cocker spaniels, and Muffin, the cockapoo, are known around here as "The Originals" because they were our earliest pets. I have been a professional photographer for about 20 years, but long before I turned pro, I always incorporated photography into almost every aspect of our lives. My brother had given me my first camera when I was only six years old. Since then, I have taken most of the family photos, but back then, I went to a photographer in the local mall to do extra special portraits of Lucky, Penny, and Muffin. It was our second year in our house, and I had the perfect spot to hang this surprise Christmas gift for Bill! |
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 I made an appointment, and took the dogs in just prior to Thanksgiving. They were freshly bathed and they looked beautiful. At this time I knew nothing about professional studios or how photographers worked. I was still using my trusty $29. point-and-shoot camera and teaching sixth grade children in a middle school. I went in thinking that the photographer would pose all three dogs in one perfect shot and smoothly create an artistic image for one low price. The dogs had other ideas!
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The studio was a smallish room with a set-up of lights, a camera on a stand and a sturdy, waist high, box-shaped platform covered with carpet. The photographer was a very nice and incredibly patient man, but in no way was he a dog trainer, nor was he a magician. I quickly realized that it was actually my responsibility to get the dogs onto the platform and to get them to behave and pay attention. Again, I must reiterate that the dogs had another agenda. As soon as I had Lucky on the platform, he would jump off when I turned to get Penny. Whenever I got two up, one was down. Then the situation reversed itself with one up and two down! I blocked and lifted and chased, but at no time were there ever three dogs on that platform!
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Finally, I abandoned the idea of one photo and suggested that I would be happy with three separate portraits, and so we began! Up went Lucky, who looked just like an angel. He sat and smiled and looked at the camera while, out of the corner of my eye, I caught Penny wetting on the man’s carpet! Then it was Penny’s turn. She too looked like the picture of innocence, sitting and grinning while the ever-curious Lucky made his way into the storage closet. The photographer was either really intense or really tactful when he seemed not to hear the light stand in the closet crash to the floor! By the time Muffin was on the platform, I was ready for a stretcher! While I refereed the now-invigorated and playful cockers I couldn't wait to make our escape! I knew that anything that the man would charge me wouldn’t pay for what he and his studio had been through. I was wrong on that assumption as well!
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