Slice of Nice

  This is Maggie the working Schnauzer.  She works at the Powell Chiropractic Clinic in Phoenix, AZ.  Her Mom takes her to work and she visits the patients with her on a daily basis. They used a picture from this photo shoot for their Christmas Card this year!

I just loved Oshi’s bandana that she brought to her photo shoot!  Fleas Navidad, it’s the dog’s version of Feliz Navidad!  You can find the full lyrics right here, as sung by Celine Dion!  (LOL)

 The story of the Pirate Elf is a fine one to see.  One of my favorite clients calls me up and wants some pictures of her Dad’s dogs to give to him for Christmas.  They were out of town and the girls were taking care of them, so they invited me over.  The trio of dogs so didn’t know what to make of me and then there was the Psycho Kitty.  Also involved in the days mischief were Judy’s two dogs who know that when I come over, there is some dressing up that needs to be done.

We got all set up and took some nice portraits of the three little ones while the other two looked on.  Then as we moved to change the background to a Christmas theme is when all Hell broke loose.  Psycho Kitty was flushed out from under the couch and she went up and over the railing where the two big dogs were waiting to chase.  So, Judy, her sister and I all went over the railing after the dogs to save Psycho Kitty.  As it turns out Psycho Kitty didn’t need saving, she bounced all around the house with dogs in tow and then hopped back over into the living room where she originally was.  This time she sat in the window panting very loudly for the remainder of the time I was there.

With the panting in the back ground we decided to dress the dogs in Christmas garments.  The other two little ones wanted nothing to do with that, but this one, she loved the elf ears and they loved her.  So, I did my typical - I hit the screaming monkey on the ground so it would start and then I threw it in order to get the little dogs ears up. Well, when the ears go up, PIRATE Elf comes out!  A Yo Ho Ho and Pirate Elf is ready to go!  One of us noticed the similarity and the laughter didn’t stop for the rest of the photo shoot!

Being a Dog Photographer, there’s nothing like it!!

And on to the start of Chanukah!  Daisy and Zeke are our Jewish Golden Retrievers and they would like to wish everyone a Happy Chanukah!

Stuff knows how to pick his tree!

Toni Drugmand brought Stuff and her crew over to visit with Santa and have their Christmas portraits taken!  Toni has taught Stuff a most unusual trick!  He even volunteered it while he was waiting on us to make up our minds as to what pose to put him in!

Parker wants to lead the sleigh

Parker has been a good agility dog all year long.  He came to visit Santa and Santa asked Parker if he would like to pull the sleigh.  The goofy little Labrador was just so excited that Santa chose him to be part of the Reindeer crew.  Parker would like to lead Santa’s crew of Reindeer to deliver all the presents to all the good girls and boys and fur kids too!  He even put on red antlers, but Santa said that you had to have a red nose to lead the sleigh.  Maybe next year Parker!