Me & My Dog Second Life is a Huge Flickr Group Devoted to Photographing Our Virtual Canines. Here's Some Favorites!

Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting

International Dog Day earlier this week inspired me to look for photographs of Second Life’s canines, which eventually led me to the Flickr group, Me & My Dog Second Life. I found this wonderful picture by Alsation Kidd shot at Mother Road in a lovely coincidence. That’s a happy, well-balanced dog. He must be wearing a seat belt, at least I hope so. (One way to celebrate Dog Day, by the way, would be to get your dog a seat belt.) 

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Patty Bartavelle is serenading her four dogs. Her picture made me wonder if J. D. Vance also disapproves of childless dog ladies, or are only cat owners on his list of enemies of the state. It’s so puerile how Vance politicized having a pet. He owns a German Shepherd which suggests that he sees his dog as a projection of his ego. My super-conservative brother has always preferred chihuahuas while my first three dogs were Shepherds. I think politicizing pets, cats or dogs, is as childish as they come.

Roxaane shows how even Second Life dogs maintain their killer focus on balls that can be thrown. When throw, hooman, when? 

Nala captures the incredibly loving gaze dogs give humans. Isn’t it wonderful to look into eyes that love you the way a dog loves you? 

Me and My Dog Second Life is an active group with 351 members and over 6500 photos of Second Lifers and their dogs. It’s fun to see so many people enjoying the dogs of Second Life. 

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Cajsa’s Choices is devoted to unique, artistic, and innovative virtual world-based images and screenshots that showcase the medium as an art form and Second Life as a creative platform. (Generally not images that fit on this Bingo card.)  

Cajsa Lilliehook is a seventeen year resident of Second Life, where she owned a photo studio, spent several years as a DJ at The Velvet, and for her first SL job, cleaned up prim trash. She co-founded and runs the It’s Only Fashion blog with her best friend Gidge Uriza. She also has a book review blog, Tonstant Weader Reviews and a cooking blog, Single Serving Recipes. She spends a lot of time researching and reporting on Republican sexual predators. In her first life, she is a retired grassroots leader who has worked for economic and social justice issues most of her life. She is also the minion of a cat named Nora.