Spring-Loaded Pup

Bouncing Buster garners second place in the Pets category in our annual photo contest.

On a sunny spring day, Linda Christensen decided to step outside her Mahtomedi home and snap a picture of her beloved cockapoos, or “cockadoodles,” as she calls them. Taking out her Nikon digital camera, she told her pooches to sit and stay. However, 12-year-old Buster had a different idea. “He was supposed to sit and stay, but he decided to fly instead,” Christensen says with a laugh. A photographer for fun, Christensen says she doesn’t take a lot of pictures, but had to send this one in for the contest. “It just turned out so perfect!”