Don't wait

Pets have become part of mainstream American families in a huge way.  We love them, cuddle them, buy them fancy food, treats, beds, and even clothing.  I even have a friend making pet caskets in multiples sizes and marketing them through local veterinarians.


If you have pets, take pictures of them, preferably with your family.  You'll treasure those pictures much more in years to come and will have some great memories.

Some of our favorite pet memories simply wouldn't be possible without the details those pictures bring back to our minds.  The pictures of the animals themselves remind us about them, but it's the pictures of the family interacting with them that makes us treasure them.


A friend of mine asked me one Thursday if I could do family pics for him, his wife, and their two dogs.

And he wanted it done soon.

As in Sunday.  Yes, 3 days notice.

You see, they never had wedding pics done many years ago since they eloped (having tired of all the fuss over planning a wedding) and had never done any pictures of the two of them the entire time they've been married.  Sure, they have snapshots, which are fun; but he lost nearly 160lbs in the last two years and doesn't really look like the person in all those snapshots anymore.

Then there's the dogs.  Ace & Tori - Welsh Corgis who are 13 & 15 yrs old, respectively.

He told me he waited too late to get fun pictures of the dogs, since Tori had a stroke and is no longer able to walk a straight line or stay awake longer than about 15 minutes.

No pressure here, right?

I would have about 15 minutes with the dogs before Tori needed to rest.

Within 2 weeks, Tori was no longer with them.

Get those pics.