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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Millie Belle
Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
Crystal River, Florida
41 votes
Caper Waldrop
Golden Retriever
Charleston, South Carolina
27 votes
Nellie
German shorthaired pointer
Xenia, Ohio
25 votes
Wendy
mutt (American Pit Bull Terrier, Australian Shepherd)
Baltimore, Maryland
55 votes
Ada
German shorthaired pointer
Xenia, Ohio
28 votes
Addie Atwood
Labrador
Cedar Point, Georgia
42 votes
Dutton
Mutt
Birmingham, Alabama
20 votes
Dutton
Mutt
Birmingham, Alabama
20 votes
Beau
Bernese Mountain Dog
Sunbury, Ohio
505 votes
Presley
Frenchie
Gloucester, Virginia
30 votes
Little Ugly
Terrier mix
Peebles, Ohio
40 votes
Brutus
Bouvier des Flandres
Charlston, South Carolina
23 votes


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