They're really easy to make. I have Paint Shop Pro that comes with an animation program. This is simply a program that takes regular pictures and links them together to make a .gif file. There are many free gif programs on the web.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...ee&btnG=Search . I enjoy learning how to do things like this, for more help check out this forum.
http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12