category Dogs • hashtags Dog Photography, Canada, BC, Vancouver • 1 min read
Guarding the Land Rover: Vancouver, BC
This Border Collie is NOT guarding the Land Rover. Not once did s/he bark.
Often dogs, in cars, will show courage and bark at people that are close to the car, especially if people walk by with their own dog, like I did. I circled (almost) the car, front, back and side. The Border Collie kept on looking at me, but not a …
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Lizzy: Vancouver, BC
Lizzy, is the short for Elizabeth. She’s a 9 month puppy and she’s already a ‘terror’.
She doesn’t look like a terror right now. It’s only because there are strangers around (like me) but then she quickly forgets… After that she starts ripping things, chewing branches, furniture, books… Who knows what she’ll destroy next. There are two big problems:
category Dogs • hashtags Dog Photography, Canada, BC, Vancouver, B&W • 1 min read
Charlie is always trying to be higher up
Charlie, a mostly a mini pittbull. She’s small and short. She loves jumping. Always trying to be higher than the ground. The only reason that she’s not on the top stair is because of her owner.
In spite of her size, she can jump and is very athletic. Her owner told me that she can easily run 5 kilometers (around …
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Puppy Labrador in Training
This black puppy Lab, Marnie, is in training to become a guide dog. Will she succeed and graduate?
Right now, she’s not doing well. She pulls too hard on the walk and she has to wear a haltie over her nose because of the pulling.
She only has 3 month to stop pulling. She’s only in the first part of the training. She doesn …
category Dogs • hashtags Dog Photography, Canada, BC, Vancouver, B&W • 2 min read
Black Dog
It’s never been easy being a black dog. Most people do not like black dogs. Light colored dogs get adopted at the rate of the 3 to 1 compared to the black dogs.
One of the reason that black dogs are badly viewed is because of Hollywood. But it didn’t start with Hollywood, we had Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskerville…
Whenever they need …
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Older Greyhound With Foot Injury
Lisa is an older Greyhound from a racing track in Mexico. She’s had a foot injury during one of her races and that ended her ‘racing career’. She was transferred from Tijuana to Los Angeles for adoption, then from the US to Canada where she went through Edmonton Alberta and finally, she came to Vancouver BC.
Most of her transformation from a caged dog …
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Man Risking his Beagle’s Life
Camera: Canon 7D ISO 100 and 1/100s
Lens: Canon 70-200 f/4L IS @75mm and f/4.5
Processed with ART 1.9.3: https://bitbucket.org/agriggio/art/wiki/Home/
category Dogs • hashtags Dog Photography, Canada, BC, Vancouver, B&W • 1 min read
Bichon running like crazy to catch the ball and she did
She was running like crazy to catch the ball and she did. She was so proud of herself bringing back the ball. She wasn’t running back, she was walking back with her head high.
In French, there’s the expression ‘tricotter’, that would be “knitting” in English, which is the expression when somebody with very short legs tries …