Celebrating dogs around Dayton: National Dog Day 2025

According to National Today, the holiday was created in 2004 by Colleen Paige, a family and pet lifestyle expert. The publication claims this day in 2004 was the year the Paige family welcomed a furry friend.

Some dogs from across the Miami Valley are pictured below.

  • Photo/Ben Wilkins

  • Mabel, Murphy and Macy | Photo/Kenny Hughes

  • Edgar | Photo/Kelsey Drennen

  • Photo/Josh Laurent

  • Photo/Josh Laurent

  • Tank | Photo/Viewer photo

  • Lexi | Photo/Viewer photo

  • Pebbles | Photo/Julian Jackson

  • Tilly | Photo via Megan Meyers

  • Tonto | Photo/Viewer photo

  • Dot Matrix Pupper | Photo/Andy Stevens

For a chance to see your pup on WDTN or in the gallery above, click here to send us an email of your dog.

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