With fall fast-approaching, I've had a fun time with a local pet shop's request to fill their website with images of their puppy offerings (their website isn't live & online yet, but email me if you want to know where these little pups are for sale). Drawing on some browsing of the gazillion fall fashion catalogues, what some local stores offered for props, and what the puppies were willing to submit to, we captured a few dozen shots like the ones you see here.

Above is a Yorkshire terrier, who really wanted to keep that scarf. At left is a boxer pup, who really needed a lot of convincing that he wanted to pose for photographs. I think I was blowing whistles, squeezing toys, and waving my hands around like a madman for nearly ten minutes to get this one. Note how his ears are up - at this point, I may have reduced myself to meowing like a cat to get his attention. My humility knows no bounds.

Then, there was this little guy, a cuddly bulldog. We worried about whether or not this shot would work, as obviously he wasn't going to be able to reach the pedals...not like he'd know what to do if he could. So, just out of frame on both sides are sets of hands ready to pluck him from the air should he slip. However, fact is, he just sat there like that, seemingly happy as a clam, and let me snap away.

I wonder what would have happened if we'd put him on a Harley....?