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National Canine Cancer Foundation’s

2025 Calendar Photography Contest

Capture Your Dog’s Journey in Our 2025 NCCF Calendar!

The National Canine Cancer Foundation invites you to honor your dog’s courage and resilience by entering our 2025 Calendar Photography Contest. This special contest celebrates the bravery of dogs who have fought cancer and the unbreakable bond they share with their families. The final calendar will feature inspiring photos and stories, helping to raise awareness and support for canine cancer research. Entries will be reviewed through a public voting phase, giving you the chance to rally friends and family to support your pup’s story. Afterward, the top 24 entries will be evaluated by our distinguished panel of judges, who will select the winning photos for the calendar.

Our esteemed judging panel includes NCCF’s co-founders, Gary and Sara Nice, along with Kelly Fails, Cera Reusser, and Dr. Kyle Stevenson. Together, they bring years of experience and dedication to the fight against canine cancer, ensuring that the chosen photos reflect the strength, beauty, and spirit of the dogs who inspire us. Each judge is passionate about the cause and looks forward to recognizing the extraordinary stories behind

Submission Guidelines:

Deadline: Final day to submit is November 24th.
Image Requirements: Photos must be 300 dpi or greater to ensure high-quality printing.
Photographer Restrictions: Photos taken by professional photographers are not allowed unless the photo is submitted by the photographer who owns the dog.
Entry Criteria: All entries should feature dogs who have been impacted by cancer, highlighting their journey and spirit.

Submit your photo today and celebrate your dog’s legacy in the 2025 NCCF calendar. Together, we’re sharing stories, raising awareness, and bringing us closer to a cure. Together, We Are the Cure.

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By submitting a photo, you confirm that you own all rights to the image and grant the National Canine Cancer Foundation (NCCF) permission to use it for the 2025 calendar and any related promotional materials. NCCF reserves the right to display, distribute, and reproduce the image in connection with calendar production and promotion. All entries are subject to these terms, and submission constitutes agreement.

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Gary Nice

Gary Nice has an extensive entrepreneurial business background. He started in television and radio production, producing commercials, corporate videos and then moving into talk radio. During his years in talk radio he owned multiple companies with programming provided for thousands of radio stations and the companies revenue reached over 10 million. He has spent a lot of time consulting and advising young entrepreneurs on ways to grow their business. Here is why he fights for a cure in his words:

It was on January 14th, 2006 that I lost my beautiful Bailey, a loving Golden Retriever. It was three days after Bailey’s 8th birthday. I had to put Bailey to sleep because of an advanced case of cancer that caused him to go from a strong, active loving dog to a dog who looked at me with such eyes that said, please help me it is my time. I did not know there was anything wrong with him. He didn’t act any different until one day, his cornea was red and we found out he was hemorrhaging in his eye because his blood pressure was 238. A dog with a blood pressure of 200 is hemorrhaging. He could not see out of that eye and on days when the hemorrhaging was bad, he was completely blind in both eyes.

After several weeks of tests and medicine, an X-ray of Bailey lungs showed the cancer had metastasized. His X-Ray looked like a snowstorm. If I only had known of this earlier we may have been able to do something. So for the next month or so, we gave him as much love as possible and practically anything else he wanted. It was a time of spoiling him, loving him and crying, lots of crying. Anyone who knows me was aware of how special Bailey was to me. He was my heart dog. We did so much together and he gave everything he could to loving me and being my friend. I am still hurting from his loss. I don’t know if I will ever forget that moment when we put him to sleep, and I was holding onto him at the Vet’s, loving him, kissing him and telling him I am so sorry and then I felt him go limp in my arms.

When I found out that Bailey had cancer, I was devastated. I began trying to find somewhere or somehow to save him, even though they said it was at a very advanced stage and there was no hope. He was only 8 years old; he had so much of his life ahead. In that research, I found out how much work needed to be done to fight cancer in dogs and how many dogs were dying every day, many prematurely, of cancer. It was at this point that I swore to myself that I would dedicate the rest of my life, and resources, to finding a cure to these cancers that are killing our dogs. It was that year that I founded the National Canine Cancer Foundation with my wife and two other friends.

Since then we have lost five more of our Goldens. Our sweet Ashby who I swear was more human than dog. You could just seem him thinking. He was only 9 years old. And our sweet, gentle Duncan who had the greatest face. When he looked at you, it always made you smile. We found out after he was gone how much of our lives and our other dogs lives were managed by him. He was our clock always telling us at 8am and 5 pm that it was time to eat. He was only 6 years old. We miss them all so much.

This is for you Bailey, Ashby, Duncan, Casey, Emma, Wrigley, and Armani. Six dogs lost to Cancer in six years. Click here for Bailey’s Story.