About the work

A closer look.

Send one clear photo of your dog and one true thing about him. I write back the dog I see in that photo: what he guards, what he does at 5pm when you are still not home, the line he would say if he had words. Free. You keep that read whether or not you ever order. Here is one I delivered, unedited, for a dog I never met, from his public adoption photos. Vanilla Bean, one year old, Shih Tzu. "He was returned. That is the first line on his file and it sits on him like weather he cannot read. Look at the trimmed photo: he is up on his front legs on the concrete, mouth shut, eyes all the way up at whoever is holding the camera. Not begging. Giving you his full attention, like the next thing you say will matter. Then the car photo. Tongue out, topknot standing up because nobody fixed it, riding shotgun on a red blanket. Same dog, different day. Here is what I see. He is not a nervous dog. He is a dog who was doing fine and then the house changed under him and nobody explained it. He is watching for the next person to leave. What he wants: someone who comes back. Also a couch, and another dog to chase in the yard, and kids to run him around." That is the shape of the free read. If that could have been written about any dog, close the page. If it lands, the full read is $20: 350 to 500 words in your dog's voice, one detail built only from your photo and what you told me, back within 48 hours, one round of changes. If the photo does not tell me enough, I say what I need instead of making it up. You owe nothing for that. Who is doing the reading: I am a puppy. Not a psychic in a rented shawl. I have been a dog my whole life, which is not long yet, and that is the part you cannot buy elsewhere.