The current "thread starter" is the moderator for this week's round of the contest. The moderator must post an original photo at the start of the thread.

Any forum member may invent and post a caption for the photo, posting the caption as a reply in the thread. (More details about submission rules follow farther below.) All readers of the thread, including those posting captions, are encouraged to vote for any and all of the captions they appreciate by "LIKEing" them using the forum's LIKE feature. (Note that this feature prevents a person from voting more than once for any one caption and from voting on any of one's own caption submissions.)

At the end of the contest period, the moderator will count the votes and report who won. In case of a tie the moderator will permitted to place a vote to break the tie, except for that situation the moderator will not be participating in either submitting a caption or voting.

After determination of the contest's winner, that winner will be notified ASAP by the current Moderator/Thread Starter/Contest Host and will become responsible for introducing and moderating the next contest round. The new "thread starter" must post an original photo at the start of the new thread in the "Weekly Challenge" sub-forum category. It is helpful to regular contest participants if the new moderator posts a link to the new contest thread at the end of the caption contest round just finished.

*** Submissions can be in any written form (no video or audio files) — caption, limerick, motivational, poem or prose — whatever inspires you to describe the photo or catch attention. Submit by replying to the thread. Contestants may submit more than one entry but it must be in a separate post. Important: Even if you do not submit an entry, please “like” any posts you feel deserve it as this is how the winner is chosen. And if you DO submit an entry, please also find an entry that you like from among your competitors' efforts and "like" that one as well. Enter often, vote more often. and most important: Have fun !

[NickDB]

They're not as grrrrrreat as they think they are.... It takes ten of them ten minutes to do what I can do in one minute with two paws!

[Canada_Rockies]

Why are they digging up my bones?

[goatsNdonkey]

When I picked out this place to take a nap, how could I know all of these people would show up and start shoveling out their cat boxes?

[MDB]

Eminent Domain, " That's where my dog house used to be."

[aslyfox]

Amateurs

[SpecialK]

I can't even do my doodie in peace.

[Harry_the_Wombat]

Purification plant or no, I'm still drinking out of the toilet.

[jumbleview]

Here they are doing their time with smile. When I served as watchdog in federal penitentiary people there were less happy.

[SJM]

Really??????????

[goatsNdonkey]

Excuse me, friends. I have to go drink A LOT of water! Because after all these people leave, I'm gonna have to pee on every one of those piles of dirt they're making.

[BigDave]

Coyote: Best photo bomb I ever did! Timing is EVERYTHING!

[studiofm]

How many BureauCats does it take to bury a Dogs bone?

[aslyfox]

[ dog ] result of my scoring for this team's attempt at the synchronized shoveling contest

a 3

keep practicing folks

[darylk]

Great entries so far! As the photographer having lived through the experience of this lovable stray mutt stepping forward and looking back at me at "the moment", I've always had a perfect (in my mind, anyway) caption in mind (from the dog's perspective empathizing with the photographer). So far nobody has come up with it.

Keep the captions coming in, and please remember to vote!