BrigadoonRose

I've just realised this is the day of my daughters' dance concert so I'll have to give it a miss, as much as I'd rather be playing with puppies than curling hair

Bahahaha :) You two do it all!

Great! Clown puppies it is :) I'll check the family schedule and see what I can wangle.

Nekhbet, good luck with that fancy dress costume X-) So are spectators welcome? I'd love to learn some more about retrieving but my dog is only 7 mo.

Maybe try charging the battery & leaving it out of the camera for 24hrs then test its charge.

They passed off dogs as lions in China a few weeks ago, so why not a bear as a dog :)

I saw some in a $2 shop during the week. I don't know how much they were, but they'd be cheapies.

Yay! Hope to see some photos soon :)

Weekend kids' sport or even mid week training is good. The crowds for a lot of the junior games (we attend) tend to stick to one part of the ground so you can keep your distance but still experience all the busyness. You still need to keep your eye out for the occasional feral child but they don't appear that often.

That's a great image granger. The lighting creates real character.

Bahahaha :)

Talcum powder is a passable substitute for human dry shampoo. I guess it would do a similar job for dogs.

They should open into the PS Raw editor. You can do quite a bit of tweaking there and then, if you still want, go on to more tweaking in Photoshop. Check that Photoshop has the latest Camera Raw update (Help > Updates).

I don't know how anyone could say 'non-shedding' is the easy option. I'd rather deal with Labrador dust bunnies any day to the extra grooming a non-shedder requires! I'm still haunted by the daily removal of burrs from our Mini Schnauzer (& carpet) nearly 20 years later :-P

Thanks Ness! And well done to you all. Sounds like you're going great guns!