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AND THE WINNERS ARE...

RCMP announce 2021 Name the Puppy contest winners

Apr 28, 2021 | 5:56 PM

The RCMP has announced this year’s winners of the annual Name the Puppy contest.

Mounties say the winning names will be given to the first 13 puppies born at the Police Dog Service Training Centre in 2021.

Officials say RCMP received over 20,000 online entries, with this year being the first year that the contest was solely virtual.

All names had to start with the letter P. For entries of the same name, a draw determined the winner.

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• Paisley – Jaden Jones (Val-des-Monts, Quebec)
• Pax – Mathias Levesque (Saint-André, New Brunswick)
• Pepper – Leanna Kautuq (Clyde River, Nunavut)
• Peyak – Kinsley Thomas (Wabowden, Manitoba)
• Peyton – Peyton Short (Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Phantom – Hunter Kamphuis (Mermaid, Prince Edward Island)
• Phazer – Darius Brevick (Prince George, British Columbia)
• Phelan – Emmet Blake (St.Catharines, Ontario)
• Piper – Jersey Ganes (Sherwood Park, Alberta)
• Pixel – Adele Mcneely (Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories)
• Polly – Aviendha Clark (Whitehorse, Yukon)
• Preston – Michael Hill (Kentville, Nova Scotia)
• Pria – Zach Ross (White City, Saskatchewan)

Each of the 13 winners will each receive a laminated 8×10-inch photo of the pup they named, a plush dog named Justice and an RCMP water bottle.

For those who want a head start thinking of names for next year’s contest, Mounties say all names in 2022 must start with the letter R.

“I was amazed by the level of participation from across Canada,” said Inspector Alana McLeod, Officer in Charge of RCMP Police Dog Services, in a press release. “This is my first year as the head of the Police Dog Service Training Centre and I’m extremely proud that our contest reached so many children.”