Rott of the Month Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Rott of the Month Calendar Contest and who runs it?

Southern States Rescued Rottweilers, Inc runs the Rott of the Month Calendar Contest as a fundraiser for its own rescue work. The organization's mail goes to PO Box 21133, White Hall, AR 71612, and its programme materials describe SSRR as spotlighting rescued Rottweilers. The product at the center is a wall calendar: the rescue's own post says it will feature a different Rottie each month, so every photo entered competes for a slot a reader will see all year. Southern States Rescued Rottweilers stages the balloting itself through GoGo Photo Contest, whose page for this program lives at gogophotocontest.com/ssrr26. That platform describes its service as built for donate-to-vote photo contests, where $1 = 1 vote, which makes this ballot part fundraiser and part popularity contest at the same time. Across the top of the ballot the rescue arranges its controls in a fixed strip, opening with Participate and View Entries, carrying the rules and prize pages, and closing with About Us plus a Sign In control.

Who the contest serves

Everything about the format points back to the rescue rather than to a media company or a chamber of commerce. No publisher's brand sits on the masthead beyond Southern States Rescued Rottweilers, Inc, and the ballot titles itself simply as the 2026 Rott of the Month Calendar Contest. For a supporter, that means questions about rules, prizes, and eligibility belong to the rescue, while questions about the voting software belong to the platform.

Item	Detail
Organizer	Southern States Rescued Rottweilers, Inc
Program	2026 Rott of the Month Calendar Contest
Ballot URL	https://www.gogophotocontest.com/ssrr26
Host platform	GoGo Photo Contest
Vote base	$1 contribution = 1 vote
Entry fee	$5 per photo
Mailing address	PO Box 21133, White Hall, AR 71612
Format	Wall calendar, a different rescued Rottweiler each month

When does the Rott of the Month calendar vote take place?

Two calendar cycles stand behind this program: editions in 2025 and 2026. The 2026 ballot is the one whose schedule is printed in full, and it is precise. Photos could be submitted, and put up for public viewing, from 12:00 AM (Central Time) on Friday, October 3, 2025 through 9:00 PM (Central Time) on Sunday, October 19, 2025. The rescue promoted the launch in its own words: the contest started October 3rd at 12:00am CST, and SSRR would, once again, be spotlighting rescued Rottweilers with the 2026 wall calendar. By the close of that cycle the ballot carried a plain banner reading "Contest has ended", which is unsurprising for a fundraiser keyed to a physical calendar, since the product cannot go to print until the year's dogs are settled. Under the annual shape of 2025 and 2026, a further edition points to 2027.

What the ballot leaves unsaid

Day-level voting dates, the roster of entry categories, and any ceiling on repeat contributions sit outside what the rescue prints on ssrr26; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Any staged rounds the platform might layer onto a cycle are also not described for this ballot. A supporter planning a serious push should therefore read the Contest Rules tab at the start of whichever cycle they join, rather than trusting the October rhythm alone.

Stage	Window	Notes
Photo entry and public viewing	Oct 3, 2025, 12:00 AM Central to Oct 19, 2025, 9:00 PM Central	$5 fee per photo
Confirmed editions	2025 and 2026	annual cadence
Next expected cycle	2027	details print as the ballot opens

How does a supporter vote for a rescued Rottweiler today?

Casting a vote here is a purchase-shaped action, which separates the ballot from free-click polls. The sequence runs: open gogophotocontest.com/ssrr26 while a cycle is live, open View Entries, choose the Rottweiler you want to back, and complete a contribution checkout in which each dollar becomes one vote. The ballot carries a Sign In button, so the platform supports accounts, but nothing printed on the page says whether a contribution forces one. A phone browser reaches the same gallery and the same checkout as a desktop.

Putting a dog on the ballot

The entry side has its own printed term: there is a $5 entry fee per photo. Submissions belonged to the October window in the 2026 cycle, so an owner or admirer plans around a deadline rather than an open-ended gallery. Once a photo is in, its fate rests on how many people convert goodwill into contributions during the voting stretch. The two figures do different jobs: the entry fee admits a photo to the gallery, while the dollars gathered behind it decide how visible it becomes afterwards. Both are printed by the rescue on the ballot itself.

Where does this fundraiser sit among Arkansas public votes?

Away from the rescue's own ballot, Arkansas runs a busy slate of public votes, and the neighbouring programs on this site show the range. The Arkansas Country Music Awards and the ARKAST Awards honor music, the Ay Restaurant Poll and Best of the Grand Prairie (Stuttgart Daily Leader) sort food and local businesses, Best of the Best 2026 (russellvillecourier) works as a readership survey, and the Ays Cutest Pet Contest is the nearest cousin in subject matter. What separates the Rott of the Month ballot from those neighbors is the engine. Reader surveys usually tally free clicks cast for businesses and services; this contest tallies dollars, because the platform treats $1 as 1 vote and the whole exercise is labeled a fundraiser. A voter here is also a donor, and the scoreboard doubles as a fundraising ledger. The audience differs too: instead of a newspaper's circulation, the reach begins with the rescue's own community of Rottweiler adopters and fans, extended by whoever shares an entry link. For readers comparing award-style ballots across the state, the broader award votes overview collects how contests of that shape behave, from reader surveys to judged honors. The calendar fundraiser sits at the charitable end of that spectrum, where every ballot action leaves the rescue better off.

How can a supporter give a dog's entry a stronger push?

Strengthening a dog's position in this fundraiser looks less like hammering a button and more like organizing small donations. Every vote arrives as money, so the practical levers are giving the dog's direct entry link to people who already love the breed, making the ask while the October stretch is still young instead of squeezing supporters into the closing hours, and letting each contributor know the donation doubles as a vote. Sharing the ballot itself helps less than sharing the specific entry, since the gallery holds many dogs at once. The rescue publishes no stated position on outside vote services for this contest, so anyone weighing that route should read the rules tab first and then the general get more votes online guidance. Whatever the source of support, the ballot's own arithmetic stays fixed: dollars in, votes counted, calendar months decided at the close.