The 2025 Good Dog Photo Contest

How it works

• Enter a photo of your dog below. Entries are accepted between September 3 and September 30, at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
• Vote for your dog or others between September 3 and October 3, at 5 p.m. EDT. Encourage your friends to vote too.

Winners
• Our editors will pick one overall winner, one sleeping dog, and several honorable mentions—regardless of the number of votes. The overall winner and sleeping dog winner will be featured in the December 2025/January 2026 issue of Garden & Gun. The overall winner will receive a prize pack from G&G and the sleeping dog winner will receive a dog bed from Crypton.
• The ten photos with the most online votes will be named readers’ choice winners.
• The overall winner, sleeping dog winner, honorable mentions, and readers’ choice winners will be announced online November 4.

Rules
Read the full contest rules and enter and vote today!

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Hank
Yellow Lab
Charleston, South Carolina
241 votes
Sancho
Xoloitzcuintli
Charleroi, Pennsylvania
21 votes
Buck
Cattle Dog
Charlestown, Indiana
22 votes
Lexie
Australian Shepherd
Panama City, Florida
35 votes
Meli & Ewan
Labradors
Los Angeles, California
73 votes
Bart
Llewellin Setter
Victor, New York
65 votes
Twitty
Basset Hound
Knoxville, Tennessee
28 votes
Willow
Catahula mix
Riverview, Florida
24 votes
Mojo
Mix
Westminster, South Carolina
114 votes
Lulu Chloe
Australian Labradoodle
Charlotte, North Carolina
24 votes
Moose
Golden Retriever
Lakeland, Florida
40 votes
Banjo
German Wired Hair Pointer
Pike Road, Alabama
360 votes


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