Santa Paws (or Claws?) is coming to town! Does your pet have a special outfit picked out? Show us for a chance to win these cool prizes! No entry fee. The top three vote-getters win. $1 = 1 vote

FIRST PLACE
Portrait of your pet, or you and your pet, on frameable print or canvas by local artist Dana Bridges.



SECOND PLACE
25,000 AAdvantage miles certificate.



For reference, that many miles gets you a round-trip U.S. domestic ticket on American Airlines, American Eagle, AmericanConnection or AAdvantage participant airlines.

THIRD PLACE
Two-day, one-night stay for two adults at The Island by Hotel RL resort, Fort Walton Beach.




The Panhandle Animal Welfare Society, a.k.a. PAWS, is a nonprofit dedicated to giving unwanted animals refuge, medical care, nourishment, and an opportunity for a second chance at life. We also protect them from cruelty, neglect, carelessness and ignorance. Each year, we handle more than 7,000 animals, and our animal control officers respond to 12,000 calls. Since 1995, our vet clinic has sterilized more than 48,000 animals.

• Pictures with the most votes win the prizes. It can be any kind of pet – a dog, cat, horse, hamster, snake, bearded dragon, tarantula, etc.
• Pictures of wild animals, including that cute lizard on the window screen, do not qualify. Pet rocks also don't qualify.
• Pets must live in Okaloosa, Santa Rosa or Walton counties.
• Pets do NOT have to be PAWS alumni, though we'd love to see their happy lives now!
• Tell your family, friends, co-workers, cashier, pool guy, exterminator – pretty much everyone you know – to vote for your furbaby.
• 1 vote = $1 donation. Proceeds benefit animals waiting to be adopted at the PAWS shelter.
• Vote as many times as you like. Votes will be displayed on the contest page as they come in.