Pawliqa is a visual site — our guides are image-led, and the photos do most of the work of communicating an idea. Because of that, we take image sourcing and accuracy seriously. This page documents where our images come from, how we use them, and how to request a correction or removal.
Where our images come from
Images published on Pawliqa are drawn from the following sources:
- AI-generated photographs — many of our featured and in-article visuals are created using AI image generation tools and then reviewed for realism. These are produced under terms that allow editorial and commercial use, and they’re used to illustrate dog care, grooming, training, and home setups. We design them to look like editorial dog photography because that’s the visual language our category uses.
- Owned photography — original photos taken for the site.
- Licensed stock photography — images licensed from stock providers under terms that permit editorial use.
- Public-domain or properly licensed third-party images — including some images used under Creative Commons or similar licenses, with attribution as required.
- Brand or product media used with permission — when a brand provides press images or grants explicit permission for editorial use.
How AI-generated images are used
Because so much of our visual content is AI-generated, we want to be specific:
- We use them for editorial illustration — to show a dog, a care or grooming step, a training moment, or a “what this could look like” home setup.
- We do not use them to misrepresent specific real things — a specific real product, a specific real brand, or a specific real person’s hands or photography. We don’t generate fake before-and-afters of identifiable people.
- We don’t claim AI images are personal photography. When a guide describes a setup, that’s an illustration of the idea, not a photo of the editor’s own dogs. Most guides describe and round up what works rather than claim personal trials.
- We don’t do breed identification. Our images show a generic, realistic dog rather than a specific named purebred, and we don’t use them to make breed-ID or purebred-comparison claims. That’s out of our scope.
Animal Form Reality
Because AI can struggle with animal anatomy, every dog image is reviewed against an Animal Form Reality standard before it ships. We check that each dog is anatomically correct — the right number of legs, a natural face and eyes, realistic fur and paws — with no fused limbs, extra digits, distorted muzzles, or uncanny artifacts. We also confirm the image shows a believable, generic dog rather than a specific named purebred. If an image doesn’t read as a real, correctly drawn dog, it doesn’t go live.
We also avoid AI-generated images that imitate a recognizable branded crate, harness, or collar (signature retailer or designer shapes) to prevent misleading brand associations. Gear in our images is plain and unbranded unless a brand image is used with permission.
Attribution
When an image requires attribution — for example, Creative Commons or a brand-permission image — we include credit near the image, at the bottom of the guide, or in a dedicated credit note. AI-generated and licensed-stock images typically don’t require visible attribution.
Images we share to Pinterest follow the same rules. We don’t pin third-party photography we don’t have the right to redistribute, and our Pinterest creative work is either AI-generated specifically for the platform or built from our own owned visuals.
Image removal or credit requests
If you believe an image on Pawliqa is yours — or was wrongly attributed, or used without the right permissions — we want to make it right. Email [email protected] with:
- The page URL on Pawliqa
- The specific image (URL or description)
- Proof or details of ownership
- Whether you’d like credit added, attribution corrected, or the image removed
We review image requests promptly and respond within 2–3 business days. We treat these requests seriously — removing or correcting an image is straightforward when there’s a real ownership question.
Questions
General image questions: [email protected].