Paws For Charity is organizing a fundraiser for the registered charity Canines With A Cause. CWAC trains assistance dogs for people with mobility disabilities, and is based in Ottawa, Canada.

I am creating a “Friends of CWAC Yearbook” and am asking for your pet photos. All photos received will be included in the yearbook, and some of the photos will be chosen for a desk top calendar.

There are only 10 more days before this fundraiser ends! All photos for this year’s project are due by September 30th.

Personal pet photos and business photos accepted. Do you have a pet business? Include your business name or website on your photo for a very inexpensive advertising opportunity!

Available Sizes: (minimum 230 dpi)
$5 – Regular photo insert (2 inch square – 667 pixels)
$12 – three regular photo inserts (same size as above)
$30 – half page photo insert
$50 – full page photo insert

Name Your photos: Your Name-Your Pet’s Name
Email your photos to Sarah
Include: Your full name, your mailing address, and your pet’s name. All information will remain confidential. You will receive payment instructions by email (US residents – Paypal only, Canadian residents – cheque or Paypal).

DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2009

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The Pup Art Photos taken at the Wiggle Waggle Walkathon are now ready to be downloaded. Thanks to the dogs and their humans who participated! You helped to raise over $500 for the Ottawa Humane Society!

If you had a Bad Dog Mug Shot taken at the BARK Picnic, please follow these instructions to pick it up:

* Click here to open the album

* Find your photo and click on it to make it bigger

* Above the photo there will be a button that says: All Sizes – click on that

* Click the link of the size photo you would like to download (Square, Thumbnail, Small, Medium, Large, Original) and a link will appear that says: Download the *size you chose* size

Jennifer Jones and Miss Texas Belle!
Congratulations! I will be contacting you about your photo shoot!

Thank you to everyone who came out to the Wiggle Waggle Walkathon and helped us raise over $500 for the Ottawa Humane Society!!

We humans are addicted to our Facebook, MySpace and Twitter pages, and now our dogs can be a part of a social network too!

Two in particular stand out online: Petizens and Dogster. Both ask you to create a profile for your dog and you can add photos, blog and speak with other dog owners all over the world!

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I never ever thought I would say this, but my dog’s identity has been stolen. It was brought to my attention yesterday that someone has been using photos of my dog, Corduroy, as well as photos of myself and family, to scam people out of money. They claim that the people in the photos are them when they are actually myself, my fiancé and my two dogs, Paddington and Corduroy. The scammers stole my photos of Corduroy from my flickr website.

I have heard about this scam before. They post an ad on somewhere like UsedOttawa, Kijiji or Ebay, presumably with a photo (in this case, of Corduroy). You answer the ad and request more info to which you get a response with more photos (of Corduroy and us this time) and a speech about how they are on a religious mission to another country and that they need your full address and information along with money so that they can “ship the pupppy” to you. This is all a complete lie so that they can steal YOUR identity and money.

This scam is well documented online and if you have received ANY version of this scam, contact PhoneBusters straight away. I called my local police station who referred me to them. PhoneBusters is a team made up of the OPP and the RCMP committed to investigating internet related fraud. I have opened a case against these people and hopefully at least something can be done to stop them. Who knows how long they have been using my photos…

It is so difficult nowadays with the internet being as it is. It is easy to take someone’s photos and use them as your own. But on the other hand, I don’t want the internet privacy laws to get stricter either because that would bring a WHOLE new set of problems to the table.

The solution for now is to be proactive – to recognize a scam when you see one and contact the proper channels. We must remain educated and by all means, look into adopting a dog from your local shelter!

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