There’s no shortage of dog lovers (and cat puns) in the Dark Reading community! This month’s cartoon contest entries – 81 in all -- offered more than a few laugh-out-loud moments for the 2,500+ readers who kept tabs on the captions as they poured in.

And so, without further ado, the winning caption... 

First-prize winner ioshield takes home a $25 Amazon gift card and his much-deserved moment of fame in the final version of the cartoon by John Klossner, who helped judge the contest along with the Dark Reading editorial team: Tim Wilson, Kelly Jackson Higgins, Sara Peters, and yours truly.

The competition was stiff! We also awarded two honorable mentions (and $10 Amazon cards) to Stephen McCallister, (aka smccallister), of Stephen R. McCallister HIT Consulting, for: 

"He's on Facebook again, no one's ever going to convince him 'Who Let the Dogs Out' is a rhetorical question.”

And to awperkins04 for:

"We got him as a security dog, and he's surprisingly good at it, though we would still prefer him to bark at intruders as opposed to sending them menacing emails."

Thanks again to everyone who entered the contest. If you haven’t yet read all the captions, be sure to check them out today.

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