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I'm not sure if I agree 100% with that but I would definitely invest in higher quality pictures. Also include pictures of owners, preferably smiling, with their pets. If you have loyal users, maybe you can get some of them to submit pictures with their furry loved ones.

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We are in the process of completely redesigning the site and it will look a lot different soon, so we haven't spent time trying to improve the current design. These pics will be going away. Beer and cans are bad for dogs, we don't encourage this. I did get some flack that it's a can of Yuengling and not PBR, the preferred beer of choice for hipsters in San Francisco.

If you ever need new pictures, offer my photos of the most adorable border collie on the planet :-)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/trothwell/tags/samantha/

Very cute pics! We definitely want to feature more user's pets on the homepage. =)

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