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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Striker & Crash
Golden & Flar-Coated retrievers
Atlanta, Georgia
Charlie
Lab and Shar-pei
Belleville, Illinois
42 votes
Bruno
French Bulldog
Youngsville, Louisiana
42 votes
Henry
Standard Poodle
Wilmington, North Carolina
42 votes
DayZ
American Shepherd
Dallas, Texas
42 votes
Layla
Chihuahua
Jacksonville, Florida
42 votes
Goose
Golden Retriever
Greenville, South Carolina
42 votes
Boo
Labradoodle
Osprey, Florida
Wilson
Double doodle
Athens, Georgia
Indy
Border Collie
Austin, Texas
Max
Yellow Lab
Wilmore, Kentucky
Guthrie
Boston Terrier
Asheville, North Carolina
41 votes


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