Ivan

I used up a whole roll of b&w film on Ivan and the snow this morning. Ivan, of course, is the perfect color for b&w. He's that nice 18% grey that we had to use to compare light and dark, and he was made for modelling.
He goes where I tell him to go, and stands there and waits for my camera to click. And sometimes, he moves his head around slowly and opens and closes his eyes, or looks me right in the lens.

I swear he knows what he's doing sometimes.
We also convinced he's learning to spell, because we always spell out words like "car" and "go" and "squirrel" and he's starting to recognize them. Add that to his repetoire of opening doors, identifying toys by their names, understanding sign language, and having his own language in barking (and I literally do mean that. We always know what he wants by the way he barks.), he's damn near human!
There is no other dog quite like him.