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Shaina Fishman is a freelance photographer based in New York City. When not in the studio photographing dogs and cats or donating her time and talents to various animal shelters and organizations, she can be found with her Papillion, Cosmo. Always ready for adventure, Shaina frequently travels nationally and internationally in search of beautiful locales and animals to photograph. From small towns in Spain to villages in Kenya, she has yet to visit a place where dogs are not present. Shaina’s latest travels brought her to Delhi, New York, to photograph the animals at Angel’s Gate animal hospice for a photo editorial feature for Modern Dog (page 91). For more of Shaina’s work visit shainafishman.com.
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Writer Mary Jo Dionne has worked as an advertising copywriter on North America’s biggest brands, picking up her fair share of awards along the way. A finalist for Vancouver’s Funniest New Female Comedian and Vancouver’s Funniest Person with a Day Job, Mary-Jo has heard her writing described as “a masterpiece of urban satire that will have you laughing so hard you’ll glow.” On the not-so-funny side, her article “Puppy Hell: A puppy mill exposé” garnered her the 2007 Maxwell Award for Best Feature Article. She is the founder of TheFleasKneesTees.com, a sassy line of tees for human dog-moms, created in an effort to help fund no-kill animal rescue. In this issue, Mary-Jo speaks with her long-time comedic and animal-loving mentor, Ellen DeGeneres (page 70), and learns firsthand that it actually is possible to give mouth-to-mouth to a bird. (A sparrow, not a hummingbird.)
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based in the Vancouver, B.C. area. Originally from Colorado, she studied the arts in New York, psychology in Chicago, and has made her home on the Pacific coast of Canada, where she combines art and psychology as an expressive arts therapist. Her canine buddies keep her active in such things as flyball, agility, earthdogging, hiking, and swimming the lakes of Beautiful British Columbia. For the spring issue of Modern Dog, Patricia introduces us to the world of agility (page 40).
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