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High Resolution Portraits Created from Your Pet Photos and Your Imagination

Your pets are an important part of your legacy. Create an heirloom that can be passed down for generations with a custom portrait that reflects the personality of your special dog or cat (or any other pet in your family). Is your pet a military leader, a regal queen, a rock star, a dragon slayer or a mischevious imp? Capture the essence of your pet's personality. Choose from a variety of styles including Medieval, Classic Dutch, Pop Art, Watercolor Fantasy and even Surrealism.

“I’m ready for my closeup”

Maggie was a collie with a few eccentricities. For example, whenever she heard thunder, she would run to the window, wag her tail frantically and howl like she was singing. Then she would run into the center of the room, spin around exactly ten times, and then run back to the window to start the whole process again. Her behaviour became so well known by the neighbors that they would often look out their windows during thunderstorms just to watch Maggie's unusual antics.

Maggie's idiocincracies ended up saving her owner's life. One night, during a lightening storm, Maggie's owner Doris fell in the kitchen and broke her hip. Unable to move, Doris cried out for help, hoping that the neighbors would hear her, since she was alone. But no one could hear her over the roar of the thunder.

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Portraits

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Original Books

Turn your pet into Mona Lisa, or put your baby into one of history's famous scene

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Turn your pet into Mona Lisa, or put your baby into one of history's famous scene

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Turn your pet into Mona Lisa, or put your baby into one of history's famous scene

A Modern Look for Your Hep Cat

Our Pop-Art collection is purr-fect for the contemporary cat that wants to make a statement. If your frisky feline loves the spotlight, feature your baby in a colorful "Warhol" style digital file or canvas print, suitable for a Studio 54 celeb.

Our "Calico Junction" style is great for the mellow cat that enjoys the groovy vibes that come with a sunny day and a bag of catnip.

Is your cat a Sinatra fan? Our "Swanky" 50'S style is tailored to the jazzy feline that spends most nights "Tom Catting" and chasing mice around.

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This Month's Featured Book

One Dog's Extraordinary Journey

Spooked by an oncoming hurricane, Rebel ran from his Miami home and in the confusion, got lost. His owners used our services to turn Rebel's story into a children's book about facing adversities, beating the odds, andfinding your way home.

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Does Your Pet
Have a Story to Tell?

We know that your pet is extraordinary. Now let the world know. We'll help you turn your pet's adventures into a book, complete with photos or illustrations. We can help with editting, layout, artwork, printing and marketing. Click below for more information.

I'VE GOT A STORY!

One Dog's Extraordinary Journey

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Does Your Pet
Have a Story to Tell?

I'VE GOT A STORY!

By Elaina Zachos
PUBLISHED MAY 16, 2018

There are roughly (or, if you prefer, ruffly) a billion dogs on the planet. Although dogs and humans have been existing alongside one another for tens of thousands of years, experts say 85 percent of the world’s dogs are feral. Roaming streets and villages, these canines aren’t domesticated pets but still hang out around human habitats.
When pups are between two and three months old, their mothers will abandon them for any number of reasons. With no mother to watch out for them, infant mortality of pups under one year skyrockets to around 90 percent. So, only about 10 percent of motherless, homeless pups survive.

Dog-Eat-Dog World

Since newly abandoned pups are competing with each other for human heartstrings, evolution says they should be most adorable around six and 11 weeks. This is around the time they’re weaned and let go of by their mothers. (Related: “Does Your Dog Prefer You Over Anyone Else? It’s Complicated”)
There are a few characteristics that humans find particularly adorable across species: big, forward-facing eyes, floppy and unstable limbs, and a soft, rounded body shape. We’re also keen to squeal when animals have large heads in comparison to their bodies, and this reaction goes back to evolution.

“What Clive [Wynne] is arguing is, unless you’re cute, you’re going to die,” Herzog says.

Picture-Perfect Pups

For the study, researchers Clive Wynne at Arizona State, Nadine Chersini at Utrecht University, and Nathan Hall at Texas Tech University brought in 51 college students and asked them to rate the attractiveness of headshots of puppies at different ages. The pups, which ranged from birth to seven months old, spanned three popular dog breeds, including Jack Russell terriers, cane corsos, and white shepherd dogs. (Related: “Prehistoric Puppy May Be Earliest Evidence of Pet-Human Bonding”)

The participants were asked to judge the puppies’ “attractiveness” rather than “cuteness,” because “we wanted to keep it neutral,” Wynne tells National Geographic. “We didn’t want to nudge people toward infantile features.”

The researchers thought that people would find pups most attractive between two and three months old. That’s around weaning age, the time when the puppies are abandoned by their mothers and need another caretaker to survive.

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Picture-Perfect Pups

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