Thank you to all who submitted their pet videos for the 2025 contest!
We hope you enjoyed making your funny, interesting and heartwarming animal films as much as we enjoyed watching them.
The 2025 Paws and Play: The Media Factory’s Pet Video Contest has closed. Please view the results below.
Paws and Play 2025 - Full Presentation
After a year of dormancy, our favorite competition returns from the depths. Paws + Play rides again! This presentation includes all the entries for the 2025 contest including the overall best in show winner.
See all entries below
Pets
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Lilith
Human - Gabby Valdivieso -
Stevie
Human - Paula Fontenot -
Pippin (2025)
Human - Grace Fink -
Beans
Human - Gin Ferrara -
Fiona
Human - Phillip Peterson -
Sundae
Humans - Hallie & Kenzie Snyder -
Callie
Human - Susan Donnelly -
Chanticleer (2025)
Human - Ted Kusiak -
S'more
Human - Carolyn Crowley
In partnership with the Humane Society of Chittenden County
More ways to watch:
All the videos are currently available on the Media Factory Youtube page @btvmediafactory
Or you can watch on your favorite OTT & mobile apps. Download the Media Factory app here: Roku, Apple TV & Amazon FireTV
iOS & Android Mobile
Want to watch all of these videos as part of a playlist? You can do so right here:
Interested in participating?
Check back summer of 2026 for announcements regarding the next pet video contest.
See the contest details for 2025 below (details subject to change for future contests)
Paws and Play: The Media Factory’s Pet Video Contest
The Media Factory is excited to launch our 3rd year of the “Paws and Play” Pet Video contest in partnership with the Humane Society of Chittenden County!
Is your pet the cutest or silliest around, a star that deserves to be seen? The Media Factory invites you to submit your best pet video with the chance of being nominated as funniest, most heartwarming, most interesting, or overall “Best in Show”. Our guest judges, the pet lovers at the Humane Society, will choose what video is awarded overall Best in Show.
Submissions will open up on August 1st and the submission deadline is September 15th. Results will be announced the following week. Participants must complete the form and share their video file to fully enter.
Guidelines:
- The maximum length of each video will be three minutes
- Only one video submission per animal is allowed
- Pet’s human owner needs to sign off on permission for distribution and promotion of video
- Copyrighted video or audio should not be in the video
- Submitter/Pet Owner lives, works or is a student in the Media Factory service area
Award:
Best in Show will be awarded
- A Media Factory hat
- A $25 gift card to Pet Food Warehouse
- And a certificate to hang by your pet's favorite nap spot.
So, get your cameras rolling and let’s see what your animal pal's got!