What makes your dog so special? Does your pal cheer you up when you're feeling down, or look out for you?

Well, then, just let us know and your story could appear on our Best Friend Contest Winners page.

This is an online contest only and all entries must be submitted through the completion of the form below.

To submit an entry (that will meet all the rules and increase your chances for it being published at our site), please do the following:

1. First, write the entry in your own word processing (writing) program. Then, do a 'select all' followed by a 'copy & paste' to the My Best Friend Story box below.

2. Write at least two good paragraphs (with four+ sentences in each paragraph), using the appropriate upper & lower case letters.

3. Make sure your entry's grammar, spelling, capitalization and punctuation are correct. First, BE SURE TO DO A SPELL CHECK on your story. And, then, if you have good word processing software, you could also do a grammar check. Please please please remember to capitalize the word "I" as that can make the difference between your story appearing online or not.

4. Clearly show the division of paragraphs (hitting your enter key twice between paragraphs). 

5. Spice up your story with photos (jpg files only) sent to foundation at landofpuregold dot com .

6. Fill in every area of the form below so that your entry can be processed!