Hello Celebritys

Pet Food Express has been helping us re-shape the image of pit bulls every day of the week for the last two and a half years. They've been doing it by giving customers a ginormous blast of adopted pit bull faces on posters that hang on walls and windows in stores around the bay. We especially love the 51st and Broadway location for its wall full of BR alumnae. These posters are HUGE and they grab everyone who walks in or by the store.

FRESH FACES WANTED! Are you interested in adding your dog's portrait to this fun collection? From now until December 31, PFE is lining up fresh talent to showcase bay area pit bulls while they help us with our barn-raising. Top right, Carolyn Pettigrew's boy Booker. Below, Sheri Cardo's girl Sally.

How does it work? When you donate $250 to BAD RAP, Pet Food Express will have your dog's photo taken by a professional photographer, blown up to a giant-sized poster and placed in your favorite PFE store.

AND THEN they will match your donation and give $500 to BR for our barn. Holy moly! Thank you Pet Food Express.  Left: Donyale Hoye's Muggy and Lola.

Our dogs Sally and Honky (right) joined the first campaign, and we just loved the time and care the photographer took to capture their personalities. She came out to our house and made it all very easy and fun with the best assortment of squeakers and treats. Posters hang in the store for two+ years. After that time, you have the opportunity to buy it back for keeps. (Ours is going in the BR barn, natch.)

We'd love to see as many BAD RAP alum as possible waving their colors in PFE stores around the bay. (Come'on now. There are hundreds of you!) Non-BR dogs are warmly welcome to participate in support of BR. This is such wonderful way to showcase our beloved pit bull companions.

For questions or an application to join this campaign, please contact Sheri about: PFE Portraits.

Last day to sign up: Thurs, December 31.

Left, Owen, owned by Debbie Goldberg.

Thank you stage moms! And big thanks to Pet Food Express for supporting BR's work and, especially, for helping us put such big, bold, BODACIOUS images of cherished family pit bulls in front of so many eyes.