Does your Frenchie yawn a lot?

[Olivier]

I noticed Athlon yawns a lot - he sleeps a lot when he is not playing (very active in the morning and in the evening) or eating. He doesn't look that tired but I was wondering if he couldn't really sleep well because of his snore that is pretty loud (I can't watch/hear TV when he's around).
Athlon's yawning: http://www.bulldogworld.com/yawn.jpg :)

Olly

[Olivier]

Do you mean he tells me he will start to relax or is it a message asking me to relax? :D
I know people who snore loudly do not sleep well because of their own sound and perhaps it was also the same for Athlon. But I do not think dogs need to sleep long like us.

[Olivier]

That animated gif is great! How did you do it? By converting a movie from a digital camera into a gif?

[Olivier]

Do you have a Sony? :)
I believe only Sony digital cameras can create animated gif directely out of the camera.
The animated photos are very funny. Frenchies play like boxers (or it is the opposite ;)). I will try to do one about Athlon, but I have to find a way to convert them from AVI to gif.

[Olivier]

I bought Photoshop 5.5 or 6 a long time ago thinking it would be easy to do great graphics with it but really never could use it fully as it is too powerful with too many options. I bought a book about it, but I still have to read it ;)
I use ImageReady to reduce the size of gif and I believe it is the best tool for it! I have PhotoImpact 8 I use most of the time simply because I am used to it (I had it since its version 3).
Your mpeg file is still very good for its small size. I have AVI and for a comparable quality the file is huge (several mb)! As I am on dialup connection, I can't upload them easily unfortunately.

Olly