PS I am too tired to figure out the picture thing, but my cardigan welsh corgi, Harry, is on a corgi calendar cover for next year. Here is a link, and if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, it is the 2008 calendar (with 12 months, not the year at a glance.) He is sitting with some pumpkins in one of my autumn flowerbeds.

http://www.cafepress.com/corgiville.13478178

He's a beautiful dog Lisa. Thanks to all of you for your sentiments on my missing cat. It really is like a part of your family. I miss seeing her on my couch, sleeping on my bed, chasing my dog around the house, flipping in circles and seeming to fly through the air and mostly, I miss her going on walks with us and our dog. She would follow us all around the neighborhood. When I play the piano, she would curl up in the computer chair....animals sure seem to love piano music!

All of the pics are great!

ChristyA,

my cats would sharpen their nails at about everything, but were NEVER interested in my grand piano. The shiny black surface is not interesting at all for a cat. But the leather surface of the piano bench was very attractive to them, I had to cover that every time.

I would like to post my pet but am having some trouble with it!!

I finally figured out this picture posting thing....
Here is my dog Burt (a.k.a. Burtie, Burtley, Mr. B) on vacation!!
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OH MY GOSH!! That is the cutest picture, he looks very laid back.

Oh, Thank you! He is now, but he wasn't when he was younger!!

AshleyJane, cool!
Are those prescription sun glasses? My dog is jealous. He has to wear clip-ons. So nerdy....

No, Susan, they are not prescription! (ha ha!!!) They are just the cheapy over-the-counter variety. Your dog is ADORABLE!!! He looks so smart!

I was trying to figure out how to post a picture and I'm not having any luck. I have enjoyed seeing and reading about everyone's studio pets. If you bare with me and what will probably be a long post, I will share a little about mine. We lost her yesterday - it was a very hard day...

Sassy, our chocolate lab, died peacefully on Nov. 9th around 4:45pm with family at her side. She was 11 1/2 years old.

We adopted Sassy almost 8 years ago from the Humane Society. It was after I saw her on the local news station as the pet of the week that I knew she was the right dog for our family. My son was really scared of dogs at the time and Sassy was described as a gentle family dog. I called my husband up to see if we could try to get her. He said yes, thinking there was no way that I would be able to get her since she was on T.V. Surely someone would beat me to it. Well, he quickly learned that when I'm determined- watch out! So I headed down to the Humane Society and waited for the doors to open along with a lot of other people, which made me really nervous that they might have been there for Sassy too. When the doors opened I went to the front desk and asked if Sassy was still there. They said I have to go in the back and look for her, if she was to come back and let them know. So I raced to the back and was able to find her pretty quickly, then raced back to the front and told them I wanted to adopt her. Not even a minute later several others came up and the phone start ringing with people wanting to adopt Sassy as well. But I was first! I felt like I won a contest with all the people wanting to adopt her.

One of the pictures I wanted to send was Sassy stuck in the fence. The memory of it will always make us laugh. When we lived in Utah, Sassy would crawl under the fence to get out. On one occasion she got stuck. Really stuck. It reminded us of the story of Winnie the Pooh when he got stuck in the hole. So Sassy quickly got the nickname Sassy the Pooh. We ended up having the call Animal Control to help get her out.

Sassy was also known as drummer dog with her heavy but never ending wagging tail. Even at her last moments she was wagging her tail. There were even occasions of her wagging her tail to the beat of one of my piano students playing on the piano- a live metronome! We will remember the walks she liked to go on even though we weren't very good at taking her on them enough, how gentle she was to everyone around her, how patient she was with my daughter dressing her up and using her as a pillow, dancing with me and my daughter and how she followed me around the house. She has given us many good memories.