2009 Portuguese Water Dog National Specialty

OK – it’s been a little while (!!!) since we’ve posted here. Been a bit busy, and more exciting things happening than we’ve had time to even talk about.

But to ease back into things for just a brief moment… Just got back from last week’s National. What a great time, and what fantastic dogs. A friend once told me that I was a reincarnated PWD.  I’ll take that as a very high compliment indeed (thank you Dixie!).

This was our 3rd time to have been invited to shoot for the National organization, and we don’t take those lightly!

So, for those of you who’ve wandered over to our rather forsaken page here, have some fun with the photos we’ve now posted (with lots more to come)…

We’ll add in some pix in a while, but like I said – just easing back into this blogging stuff…

Bo

All the news wires are abuzz with the arrival of the First Dog, Bo – the Portuguese Water Dog.

And what a cutie he is!

We are very well aware of what our PWD friends are concerned about:  uncontrolled popularity of a beloved breed into the hands of people who simply want the dog of the moment (and all that entails).

We are also very concerned about this issue (the PWD is one of our breeds of choice), and are watching out for the “101 Dalmatian” fad.

Hopefully, people will heed the “this breed isn’t for everyone” warning and will research as carefully as Malia Obama has before considering this or any other breed.

We are very proud to be associated with the Portuguese Water Dog Club of America as their 2009 National Specialty photographers!  This will be our third PWD specialty and we look forward to seeing familiar faces and meeting new ones in Illinois this year.

On another note:

A big thanks to Terry and Susan for putting our image on the cover of The Courier magazine (for those of you who are unfamiliar with this publication, it’s the highly awarded PWD national breed magazine).  Wow!  Especially with it being one of the most popular issues of the year – “Water”.

http://www.pwdca.org/resources/courier/

Thanks to Susan for selecting and sending in one of our images, and Terry for choosing it.  As always, a beautiful magazine!

We also want to thank Browntrout Publishing for choosing us as their exclusive photographers for the 2009 Portuguese Water Dog photo calendar.