Her nickname is “The Cookie Monster” (include the: The) which is often shortened to “The Cookie”. I forgot to write down her real name.

The Cookie only works when she’s being paid. She has to be paid before and after the work. She need to have a cookie before going for the walk and she also wants to be paid when coming home… Another cookie down …

Some dogs have it and some dogs don’t.

Some dogs are born for agility competition, some dogs are not. The most obvious candidates for agility competitions are the Border Collies (they win the most often) and the Pitbulls. The Chinese Crested are not born for this kind of life.

This Chinese Crested wasn’t rushing during his agility race, to the great dismay of his owner …

This is an agility competition.

By now, most of the dogs in that agility understand that they have to go through those obstacles and their owners are happy when they go through them. If they rush through these obstacles, their owners are even happier.

What the dog doesn’t understand is the order of these obstacles. The order changes every time they run. In fact, the …

Some dogs do nothing the whole day: they wait, they sleep, they wait and wait… Dogs are hunters and therefore they are supposed to be patient and wait until the prey, the owner or the meal comes.

Some dogs have to work for a living, they are earn their meal. I’m talking about these service dogs for the blind, seizures… Some have to work rounding …

In agility competition, the dogs run in various categories, mostly according the weight/size of the dog and they raise the size of the obstacles according to the dog’s category.

The fastest dogs where the Border Collies and the Pitbulls. They are always the fastest. They get the speed because they are not too big or too small and they have the agility to make …

This is my dog, walking around, at the beach in West Vancouver, BC. His name is Dodoïte (pronounced: Dodo ïte).

Sometimes, magical moments happen, in life and in photography. For customers, I usually take a few hundred photos and then I show them 20 to 30 photos, sometimes I even show 50 photos.

This photos is just one of a sequence of about 9 photographs. And …

This is my dog, walking around, in the snow in Whistler, BC. His name is Dodoïte (pronounced: Dodo ïte). He’s a furry Basset Hound. He’s basically a Basset Hound with longer legs and in the forest, in the woods, in the mountains he becomes a “real dog”.

Normally, in town (I live in Vancouver, BC), he’s afraid of everything. Every …

Blue is an older beagle. She’s a very interesting character. Her name Blue is because it’s the preferred colour of his owner. She has all kind of blue things, including a blue car, some blue flowers…

Normally, Beagles howl. They howl because it’s a sound that carries very well in the thick of the forest. Beagle howl to let us know that they …

This black Labrador was walking all by himself. Not really by herself, but I didn’t see her owner. Her owner must have been there. This dog was too calm and just strolling by herself.

If her owner was far away at the front, she would be rushing. Maybe her owner should behind around the corner.

Technical

Camera: Pentax K20D ISO 200 and 1/1000 …

Whenever I point my camera “into somebody’s face” people become afraid. It’s almost like pointing a weapon at them. They always ask themselves:

• How do I look?
• How’s my clothes?
• I never look good in photos…
• Why is he taking a photo of me?
• Is this legal?
• What he is going to do with these photos?

Dogs don’t care.

• Dogs do not pretend …

This 5 or 6 years old girl was waiting for her grandmother to go for a bike ride. The grandmother told me that it was some Terrier mix with a Maltese but I wasn’t paying attention, I was too busy making the photographs.