Won't You Adopt a Winning Dog?

In honor of this October’s Adopt-a-Shelter-Dog month, we asked staffers all over the country to submit photos of special pooches who’ve been waiting way too long for their forever families. Our contest judge, amazing photographer Traer Scott, did a fantastic job of choosing the following adorable, silly, wiggly, alert, loyal, people-pleasing (not to mention photogenic!) dogs sniffing around for the place they’ll call home.

And here they are, pooches of the hour:

Please visit the contest website to see larger images of the dogs and learn more about them! And check out yesterday's blog entry to see winners in the public photo submission contest!