Creative Captions: Nov. 2

It was a hands-down case of puppy love this week. That was the case for more than two dozen of this week’s nearly 150 submissions for our photo of a boy in New Mexico being nuzzled by a corgi puppy. A selection of other choice morsels from this week’s mailbag:

My mom told me to wash my face before dinner, but I am not sure this is what she meant!

Amanda Slattery, seventh grade, St. Patrick School, McCook, Neb.

Don’t try to make up!

Babe Petrashek, Omaha

Jack Frost nipping at your nose? Oh, Jack Russell.

Charles Kramer, Lincoln

“Pawsing” to slurp up the tears.

Margaret Nolsen, Minden, Neb.

Puppy, not butterfly, kisses.

Hallie Bauer, Ashleigh Axtell and Danielle Smith, Minden High School

Cleans faces for three treats an hour.

Nick Allmon, eighth grade, St. Albert, Council Bluffs

I lick people on days that end in “y.”

Carson Blum, Minden, Neb.

Pup’s getting cheeky.

R.F. Corderman, Bedford, Iowa

Face-licking good!

James Swanson, Kearney, Neb.

How do you like my Mutt-on-chops?

Vicki Burns, via e-mail

He takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’.

Gloria Clowe, Hastings, Neb.

Kyle’s new pet keeps “hounding” him to go for a walk.

Raymond Earl Moore, Omaha

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