Calendar Contest Winner

Kozmo doing what he loves best, fetching a stick and swimming

As you can see from the photo above, Kozmo is happiest when he can run and play, especially when water is involved. I've always wanted a water dog and am trilled Kozmo loves the water as much as his humans.

As most of you know Kozmo entered a contest to possibly have his photo featured in a calendar made by the shelter where we adopted Kozmo. The calendar entries were not judged on cuteness or votes, only on how much money each pet raised for the shelter. I bothered all of my friends and family and made a donation. I kept telling myself that it didn't matter if Kozmo had his own month in the calendar, what was most important was helping raise awareness about our local shelter and raise money to help other animals like Kozmo.

For those of you who know me, you have to know this was very difficult for me. I am a little competitive and as much as I wanted to help the shelter, selfishly I wanted my dog to have his photo featured in the calendar. One of my goals is to make him an ambassador for all shelter dogs.

Last night we got some great news, Kozmo will have his photo featured in one month of the 2013 pet calendar!! He was one of the top 12 fundraisers and earned his own month. We are very happy and proud.

The photos in the post are from a photo shoot with Kozmo trying to get the best possible calendar photo. This is very hard for me. As Kozmo's human I love every photo with him and think he is the cutest dog ever. However, as a photographer I can find a million things wrong with every photo.

The photos in this post are some of my favorites as Kozmo's human, but ones that didn't make the cut for our quest for the best possible photo of Koz to submit for the calendar. These photos were taken on a hot Sunday afternoon at Trough Creek State Park. Kozmo had no idea it was a photo shoot. He was just happy to be in the water and playing with his humans.

Stay tuned, now that we asked  you all to donate for the calendar contest we will soon be asking you to buy copies of the calendar!!