Sipke's wonderful book available on his site and at Colette in Paris
From the exhibition, "Church Doggies", exhibiting in Zweins, Netherlands
I grew up with mostly cats, guinea pigs, hamsters, and a rabbit at some point, but never dogs; I do like them though. The sheeps name is Bartje.
Leslie Simitch told me about this fabulous book that she had seen at Colette's in Paris, "Doggies". Sipke Visser describes his relationship to dogs, "I don’t have a personal preference for dogs and I really like all animals. What makes dogs specifically interesting, perhaps, is that they can seem very human-like. In some of the pictures, it almost seems like they and myself completely understand each other. People get very interesting when they’re around dogs, probably because they feel they can sometimes communicate on the same level."