MAIL CALL
Before Facebook, there was email. This pup is listening as a message from his vacationing "mother" is about to be read aloud. Really.
COW, DOG & TONGUE
Happy Halloween in 2005. Can you pick the one in costume?
A WATCHWOLF?
Somebody's pet in Barrow, Alaska. The borough is on the Arctic Ocean and is the northernmost settlement in North America.
COCKER SPANIEL PORTRAIT
His name was Gulliver.
BIKER DOG
This one, in Maine, had a special trailer to ride in behind the owner.
PALS
A Tibetan Terrier and a Bichon hike at Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park in Freeport, Maine. Both are appropriately attired in doggie versions of the classic L.L. Bean field coat.
NO WALL MOUNT
Sled dog in truck-mounted travel bin does a meet-and-greet with fans before the ceremonial start of the 2005 Iditarod in Anchorage, Alaska.
HIMALAYAN DREAM
Tibetan Terrier uses sofa cushions for snow cover.
PET PARISHIONERS
They gathered for the 2010 St. Francis Day Blessing of the Animals at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Manhattan.
CANINE KISS
And seminarian Sandra Kirby McLeod is about to get it during the 2010 St. Francis Day Blessing of the Animals at Manhattan's Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd.
CHURCH-GOER
This cat was in a New York City church to be blessed on St. Francis Day of 2010.
CRUISE CONTROL
Waiting for Ma & Pa. Oscar in air conditioned comfort while parents picked grapes at a rural New York farm on a hot fall day in 2011.
STREET TOUGH
Actually, this fierce looking dog on the main street of Basin, Montana, was quite approachable.
FAVORITE CAMPGROUND
Roxy Hart enjoys a stay south of Livingston, Montana.