Send us your a photo of your holiday canine--maybe we'll make him or her famous.

What makes me such a sucker for dogs in holiday finery? Maybe it’s the early, deep imprint of Max, the Grinch’s eager canine sidekick, tricked out like a reindeer and panting with (momentary) glee as a passenger aboard a sleigh zooming toward Whoville. Halloween, Shmalloween. Give me dogs tearing open packages any day of the year. What says Joy to the World better than a Schnauzer chomping a beribboned bone or a Chihuahua tail-deep in a stocking?

I’m not alone. Every year, I get at least a dozen holiday cards—solstice and Hanukah very much included—featuring dogs, dogs, dogs. Still it’s not enough. I want more. I want to see your holiday pup pictures from formal portraits to dogs passed out in the season’s rubble.

We’ll set the bar with a four-year-old Australian Cattle Dog named Marley (photo, left). Every year, Jeni Hoff of Temecula, Calif., does a little photo session with her dogs for her Christmas card. Although Marley is hard-headed, she says, he seems to enjoy the shoot—“maybe it’s the yummy treats he knows he gets every few pictures.”

“We adopted Marley as a puppy because he was so cute and then learned about the breed (a little backwards) so we had our work cut out for us,” she says. But Hoff knows the ropes. She is a pet sitter (Gotta Love ‘Em! Professional Pet Care), providing in-home care and dog walking for the pets of people on vacation or who work long hours.

Send your holiday canine photos to webeditor@thebark.com (explainer notes welcome), and we’ll feature our favorites in a special yuletide slideshow. DEC. 21 NOTE: Thanks for all the awesome submissions. We've picked our favorites. You'll find them in our 2009 Holiday Pooch Patrol. Enjoy!