California Labradors, Retrievers and More Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Labs and More Calendar Contest and who runs it?

The Labs and More Calendar Contest is a photo fundraiser built around pet calendars rather than business rankings. It is staged by California Labradors, Retrievers and More, a California dog organization whose printed address is 27745 N Lake Wohlford Rd, Valley Center, CA 92082, and whose own website is labsandmore.org. The ballot sits at gogophotocontest.com/labsandmore on the GoGo Photo Contest service, a company whose marketing pitches donate-to-vote fundraising as its core product. Every marker of the event points to fundraising: the ballot header describes it as a "Fundraiser for California Labradors, Retrievers and More," and the prizes funnel back into the calendar the organization produces for supporters. Structurally the contest resembles the best-of polls common across California in that winners are decided purely by public vote counts, but the subject could hardly be more different. Where a best-of ballot pits restaurants, contractors or shops against each other, this one pits photographs of individual dogs against each other, and the reward is calendar placement rather than a business title. The market is statewide in practice, since any supporter with a browser can reach the entries, although the organization itself is anchored in Valley Center. The identifiers below gather the details readers ask for most.

Item	Detail
Program	Labs and More Calendar Contest
Organizer	California Labradors, Retrievers and More
Ballot URL	https://www.gogophotocontest.com/labsandmore
Hosting platform	GoGo Photo Contest
Organizer address	27745 N Lake Wohlford Rd, Valley Center, CA 92082
Organizer website	labsandmore.org
Market	California
Format	Pet photo calendar fundraiser, public vote

When does Labs and More voting happen and which editions are confirmed?

The clearest dated anchor is the calendar itself. The edition whose winner graces the front of the 2026 Labs and More calendar is described on the ballot as the "second annual Labs and More Pet Calendar Contest," and three cycle years stand behind the program, 2024 among them, with 2025 next and 2026 the most recent, which makes this a recurring summer fixture rather than a single experiment. Within each cycle the voting phase stretches from June into August, and every countdown and deadline on the page reads in Pacific Time, a detail that matters to supporters coordinating last-minute pushes from other time zones. The stakes inside the window are concrete. Per the ballot's own language, the dog whose photo finishes with the most votes will win the coveted cover photo for the 2026 Labs and More calendar, and the winning entry also earns a photo shoot of the dog together with a professional print offered in 5x5 or 5x7 format. Entrants can likewise steer where their dog lands by requesting a desired month. What the ballot does not pin down is the fine print around the edges. Beyond the June to August span, the page itself prints no start or end dates, no category roster, no per-person vote cap and no eligibility wording; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The summary below lines up what is fixed against what stays open.

Stage	Detail
2024 edition	Confirmed edition year
2025 edition	Confirmed edition year
2026 edition	Labeled the second annual on the ballot; produced the 2026 calendar
Voting phase	June through August, tracked in Pacific Time

How does a supporter vote for a dog on the Labs and More ballot?

Voting happens entirely on the GoGo Photo Contest ballot. Across the top, the menu lays out Participate, View Entries, the Rules tab, About Us, plus Sign In, and the practical route for a supporter runs through View Entries: open it, scroll the grid of dog photographs, settle on a favorite and trigger that entry's vote control. Each photograph is paired with a running tally, so the page doubles as a scoreboard, and whether a given action needs an account is the kind of detail the Rules tab settles. Those figures matter tactically as well as emotionally, because a supporter who can see the dogs directly ahead knows exactly how many votes stand between a favorite and the next position. The sample below shows how tightly bunched the middle of a race can be.

Entry	Votes shown
Baylie	275
Roxy	265
Roger	225
Summer	220
Frankie	200
Poppy	160

The steps work identically on a laptop or a phone, since the entries and tallies load like any other web page, and the board refreshes as votes land.

How does this calendar contest sit beside its California neighbors?

Within the California set on this site, the neighbors are mostly business and community choice ballots: Best of Central Valley Business, the Best of Marin poll, Best of Silicon Valley, the Best of Orange County survey and Best of San Diego & Best Restaurants, along with the 2024 GGBR Calendar Contest. The Labs and More ballot shares the public-vote spine with all of them yet stands apart on nearly every other axis. Its electorate is drawn to a single animal's face rather than to a local business scene, its organizer is a cause-driven dog organization rather than a publisher or chamber, and its prize is a calendar cover rather than a title or badge. The nearest cousin is the 2024 GGBR Calendar Contest, another California calendar decided by photo votes, so a reader torn between the pair is really choosing which cause deserves the summer's support. For anyone weighing where their effort pays off, the practical difference is the shape of the opposition: a best-of category can fill a long list of competing businesses, while this race is a field of individual dogs whose tallies stay visible from start to finish.

How can a supporter build momentum for a dog's entry?

Momentum in this race flows through the entry page itself. Because every dog's photograph carries its own tally, the strongest move is to circulate the direct link to a favorite's entry so that each click lands on the picture rather than on the ballot's front door, and the Participate link on the menu is where a new dog enters the field in the first place. Watching the neighboring totals tells a campaign when to push, since the gap to the next position is always on display. Before repeating votes or recruiting repeat voters, read the Rules tab, the place the organizer posts cycle-specific constraints; the posted menu covers conduct but says little about outside help, so purchased support is a question the rules should answer before any spending. General tactics that translate well to photo ballots, from timing to shareable assets, are collected in this guide to earning more votes, and anyone weighing paid help for an award-style ballot can review the award votes page.