I didn’t know who wrote it until PT told me. In fact, I normally mention “Author: unknown” on this stuff like I do with my “Parting Shots.” Where I found it was a graphic of a cute little cartoon dog with this story on it being passed around Facebook, so I had to type it all in. And seriously, when I posted this early this morning, I was still half asleep and didn’t think about “author unknown.” Probably also because I’ve gotten used to no information available on FB stuff.

PT is right, though. The author should be credited. Just like stuff I create. If someone else uses it, all I want is credit. When I put stuff on the internet, it is meant to be shared and passed around – just give me credit. If it is something I don’t want shared or passed around, then I don’t put it on the internet. Simple.

Now that I know who the author is, hopefully the message is what is most important to her. But if she wants it removed, I will do so. I posted an image of a German Shepherd puppy with a different story on it, “I am not an ‘until’ dog.” And apparently the woman who owned that shepherd pup (it’s her kennel) didn’t want that image floating around so the person that made that image contacted me and asked me to remove it. She explained the story to me, that she had found that cute puppy photo on the internet but didn’t ask for permission – even though there was a watermark. Then put the story on it, which is another touching story, and shared it on Facebook. It eventually came across my wall and I posted it here. By that time, the original owner of the pup had seen that photo being passed around and didn’t care about the message with it. So the woman that “borrowed” the image has been following around all over the internet to ask people to remove it – like me. Of course I did. It’s not my photo. So I just used on of my dog and put that same “I’m not an ‘until’ dog” on it.

Since I’m indirectly tied into the professional breeders community via Lyn, my housemate. I have met many people who are very uppity about their dogs. I was taking photos at a dog show once and someone told me not to take pictures of HER dog. What??? Isn’t that what this is about? To show your dog off? She wanted royalties. I kindly deleted that dog’s images. LOL… Lyn could care less. The way she sees it is free advertising. She owns the dogs in her images (obviously) and if someone likes what they see, then perhaps they’ll contact her for breeding or a pup. But you can’t take an image and suddenly own the pedigree and titles with that dog.

Dog people can be really odd.

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