A picture is worth a thousand words, making photographs and stick-figure sketches the easiest solutions to looming dissertation deadlines. Help your pets get closer to their Ph.D. with today’s Groupon: for $49, you get a pet photography package, including a one- to two-hour on-location photo shoot for one family with up to two animals as well as a professional editing package (a $325 value), plus one 8”x10” print (a $25 value) from Kiss My Mutt (a $350 total value including HST). On-location shoots are available within the Sarnia and London areas, and other locations may require an additional travel fee. Additional animals may be included for $25 per pet.

Experienced animal wrangler Jenilyn Sheppard snaps four-legged subjects in natural settings to show off their individual personalities. Sheppard, who handles pets of all temperaments including rescued animals, llamas, and chickens, drives to locations in the Sarnia and London areas to photograph dogs and their outdoor ilk gamboling freely in the wild. Up to two animals can stroll the grassy runway during the one- to two-hour session, and their human counterparts are welcome to join in the photographic fun. After the shoot, the photographer creates a digital portfolio of up to 35 professionally edited images, which pet parents can view online. A handsome 8”x10” print can then joins family photos on the wall, and personal disc of all edited digital images serves both posterity and future canine wedding slideshows.