The Photo Shoot Part 2 - Bet

Howdy Ho Everybodies!

We're all still very excited and talking about the FABulous photo shoot by that extremely talented Albert Lewis.

If you have the Facebooks, you can even see a small sample of the pictures he took while he was here!  Just click this link and you can see five sneak peek pictures of the Musher and some Cramplings, one of Crunchie that makes the Musher tear up because it totally captures the Crunchmeister's intensity and power, one of Cindy where it looks like her gorgeous blue eyes will just pop out of the picture, AND one of Cricket that looks like a painting!  That Cricket sure does clean off well and gave the camera such a withering look I'm surprised the lens didn't break... and one of yours truly!

If you don't have the Facebooks... I guess I could ask Mr. Lewis to put one or two on his kickstarter page or something.  If those pictures don't get you to click that button and get in on the action before the book goes to print (significant savings if you do it now, versus retail, plus extra goodies that won't be available later), then I don't know what will... especially once you get a gander at my beautiful pose!

Can't find the button at the top right of our blog... here's a link for you!

Anyhoo, Mr. Lewis took pictures of us for 2 whole hours!  OOOH OOOH, I forgot to mention that he did tell us that that not one Pretty Curly Tail will be in the book, but there will be like three maybe four of them in there!  SERIOUSLY!!!  Here's the link again, because you are probably so excited you can't see straight.

As you may have expected, when it was Rocky's turn... well, he wanted to be carried to the model area place thingie.

Everyone else pretty much did what they were told, because they're professional Pretty Curly Tails.  I had trained them the proper way to pose, and which was their best side, and not to blink when the flashy thing went off.

When the veterans were done, it was time to let loose the Cramplings and Boo Who's, who now have a daddy and will now be called the BooFi's... yes, WiFi is the one and only daddy!

There was a bit of a dust up when it looked like only Vader would get a solo photo shoot, but Boo was satisfied when Cindy got her own photo shoot so she called off her lawyer.  She's trying to get copies of the pictures to include in Cindy's portfolio for the next season of Canada has talent.  Something about tap dancing... don't ask.

The Cramplings wanted to take their own pictures.

Cricket was next.  She really liked Mr. Lewis (although sometimes it's hard to tell the way she looks), and insisted that he scratch her head.  Actually it sounded more like SCRATCH MY HEAD NOW!  I think he was a bit afraid to stop scratching, especially after I told him the story about our neighbor Stubby McOnehand.  hehehehe.

We all did get a bit nervous when Cricket demanded a close up.

To his credit, Mr. Lewis didn't hesitate at all but did make a rather odd high pitched keening noise when she would shift her weight a bit.

Our wonderful neighbors Martin and Gabriela and Roger M came over to help wrangle everyone and did a wonderful job, we thank them from the bottom of our hearts for their assistance.

Now, I don't think that I'll make the final book.  After all I've never run the Iditarod, but I have trained the Pretty Curly Tails since they were wee little pups, and it was a totally biggie big honor to be able to get in front of the camera... even though the Musher had to wash my feet... ugh...

I was going for "rough and tumble Border Collie", but she was right in the end, she wanted pretty Border Collie, sexy come hither look Border Collie.  When you look at my sneak peek picture, please don't stare too long, as I'm nude.  Yep, not even a collar.  No fashionable ensembles (sigh), not even a scarf... I was a bit shy at first, I'm not really into minimalism, but when I saw the finished shot I knew that it was the way to go... even though I had one fur out of place near my right ear.

The most FABulous thing about the photo shoot is that a scout saw my sneak peek preview, and... well, I don't want to brag or anything... but look for this on your grocery store check-out counter next month.

Thank you Mr. Lewis!  We enjoyed having you here, and you are more than welcome to come back once all of the Pretty Curly Tails (and Cricket) have all of their fluff and it's nice and snowy for more pictures!

All of you... go kickstart the book so you get a copy!!!

- Bet

Exciting News - Bet

Howdy Ho everybodies!

I know that I told everyone of the Facebooks that I wasn't going to post until the Musher finished another of her exciting Iditarod Tales on the Trails stories, but she bribed me with a FABULOUS Bet day in the big city... park thing, and I got to wear one of my fashionable bandanas and run on wonderful trails and have a nice lunch at the Starbucks (even though they called me a Sheltie once, I'm pretty sure that person got fired), and it was such a wonderful time and all... so I'm going to post this very exciting fantastical wonderful news....

It is now official!!!

What do you mean "what's official"?

Where have you been?

Ok, here's the scoop... the FABULOUS photographer Albert Lewis is doing a really REALLY (did I mention REALLY) cool book about the dogs of the Iditarod!  I KNOW!  It's about time.  Usually books are all about the Mushers and all the stuffs and things they do (they hold on to the sled and try not to fall off), but there hasn't been a book that highlights the real athletes of the Iditarod: the dogs... UNTIL NOW!

This picture is © Albert Lewis and if you even think of nabbing it, I'll have Cricket rip your face off

Mr. Lewis is traveling all over the place and photographing Iditarod dogs to publish in his really cool awesome book.  He takes some amazing photos of the pups, like the one above of Jodi Bailey's Loben.


When the Pretty Curly Tails heard about the book, the dog yard was all excited.  They were all bragging about how THEY were the best models for the book.  After all, the Pretty Curly Tails have been used as THE standard of sled dog stuff for years and years and years by (and this is only an example):

• The cover of an Alaska Geographic publication about the Iditarod
• Cover of a "Visit Alaska" tourist magazine (even though the Pretty Curly Tails live in Canada)
• Plaques for 2006 Iditarod sponsors (one of which hangs in the lobby of the Millennium Hotel)
• The official Exxon commemorative 2012 Iditarod posters

When people think Iditarod, they immediately think about the most prettiest Siberian Huskies in all of the land and they are THE PRETTY CURLY TAILS.

There was a collective gasp in the dog yard when we learned that Mr. Lewis couldn't afford to travel to North Wapiti to take pictures of the Pretty Curly Tails.

WHAT????  Well, we can't have that!!!!

The Musher Minions jumped on it, and begged, cajoled, pleaded and convinced Mr. Lewis that he just HAD to come and photograph the Pretty Curly Tails... and he said YES!!!

Mr. Lewis will be coming to North Wapiti on July 4th, staying in the lovely guest cabin

With his own personal body guard

Eating the Musher's FABULOUS cooking (I hope we're having pasta with shrimp), and taking photos of the Pretty Curly Tails.

This is where you all come in! 

This all takes money for Mr. Lewis on top of paying to have the book published, and although we can't guarantee that the Pretty Curly Tails will be in the book, it is still a FABULOUS book of very pretty other dogs, and you can be a part of making it all happen!  Just think, YOU can say that you helped publish this book by being a Stakeholder in its creation.  Isn't that really cool!?!?!

All you have to do is go to Mr. Lewis' kickstarter page and pledge to back his project.  This money will get him to North Wapiti and some other places, get the book published, get you some VERY nice thank you gifts, and make you a part of this historic book! 

I'm even putting a cool button at the top of the blog so you can find it easier, and you can tell others to get in on this very exciting and wonderful project!  He's halfway to the kickstarter goal of money needed, and we've told him just how wonderful all of the Pretty Curly Tail fans are, so let's see if we can't get this project done before the July 20th deadline!

Ok, get over there... what are you waiting for?

I'll be at the Border Collie Broadcasting Center (BCBC) during his visit to give you the scoops and stuffs of his visit, and you can even join his Facebooks page to get up to date scoops straight from him!  Tell him that Bet sent you and BE NICE!  We know how much you want the Pretty Curly Tails in the book, but that's totally up to Mr. Lewis... I, of course, will do everything I can when he arrives to convince him that it would the best thing for his book.

- Bet