Thanks to all the contest entrants for sharing the pictures of your amazing Rat Terriers. For the 17th year, New Rattitude’s calendar photo contest resulted in awesome photos and difficult decisions. From a total of nearly 700 photo entries, the judges completed the very tough task of selecting the winners that will grace the pages of New Rattitude’s 2026 Rat Terrier Calendar.
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Congratulations to Our Winners:
Grand Prize: Cornbread submitted by Carly Gill of Woodstock, GA
Second Place: Tioga, submitted by Nicole Ratib of Fullerton, CA
Third Place: Neville, submitted by Gary Thompson of Cedar Grove, NC
Other Winners:
Lily May, submitted by Agostinho Fragoso Paraguassu of New Rochelle, NY
Maxx, submitted by Peggy Raines of Eads, TN
Halo, submitted by Allie Stone of Nyack, NY
Freddy, submitted by Kevin Liu of Redwood City, CA
Frodo and Opal, submitted by Karly Desmond of Camillus, NY
Monet, submitted by Sarah Foley of Bluffton, SC
Astro, submitted by Lisa Bado of Riseville, CA
Mazie, submitted by Kate Fischer of Chandler, AZ
Pip, submitted by Douglas Meister of Buffalo, NY
Cooper, submitted by Camille Sanders of Millington, TN
Stella, submitted by Laurie Dempsey of Alexandria, VA
All winners listed above will each receive a free calendar.
The Grand Prize, Second, and Third Place winners will also receive an assortment of other great prizes!
We also want to recognize the photos chosen for this year’s “Best of the Rest” collage on an extra calendar page! Congratulations to Nikki Doran, Brenda Farnam, Shawna Ferrato, Rachel Harrison, Bonnie Lawing, Wendy Petkus-Mazeika, Teri Retelle, Carlos Reyes, Lynette Rogers, Josh Schwartz, Lou Shubert and Gayle Sutch whose photos were chosen for this special page.
In addition, we are excited to announce that 55 additional lucky photographers will find their photos featured throughout the 12 calendar month pages as in the sample January calendar page below!
Congratulations to:
S. Belford, K. Benavides, J. Berry, L. Bidoul, N. Biscontini, D. Bristow, A. Cloutier, L. Cooney, D. Crider, N. Cross, G. Davis, B. Donato, J. Doss, J. Fitzgibbons, L. Giglio, A. Goldstone, A. Gorski, D. Grimm, D. Habben, M. Hartwig, K. Herr, N. Hollingsworth, L. Impson, N. Jerozal, L. Jones, J. Kahler, A. Keating, L. Kelley, M.K. Kitchings, M. Klauber, T. Kopp, E. Kotara, A. Marshall, W. Martin, G. McCormick, P. McKinney, T. Parrish, S. Passerotti, S. Payton, J. Pottle, C. Price, M. Roper, L. Raynor, S. Raynor, S. Smick, D. Stachurski, P. Standifer, T. Tansey, L. Tashjian, N. Weeg, K. Wells, L. Westervelt, A. White, P. Wiley, and D. Willig.
The Calendar Committee sends a sincere thank you to all of the contest entrants. The photo entries and comments that accompanied the entries demonstrated the great love and pride felt for the breed that we all admire so much!
For a sneak peek of the calendar photo pages, look below.
A very special thanks to Printing Center USA for providing us with our amazing, high-quality calendar. You can learn more about all the wonderful products and services they offer here.