Pets on the Prowl 2019 Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What Pets on the Prowl is and who runs it

Pets on the Prowl 2019 Calendar Contest is a pet photo fundraiser that Mendocino Coast Humane Society runs from Fort Bragg, California. The society's postal address is 19691 Summers Ln, Fort Bragg, CA 95437, which places the program on the Mendocino Coast in far northern California. The 2019 ballot invited supporters to show off their beloved animals and asked, in the page's own words, whether a pet had what it takes to be the next cover model.

The format is a calendar, not a trophy night. Entries that collect the most votes are featured for each month of the society's printed calendar, so a winning photograph earns a place on walls for a full year rather than a cash payout. The ballot itself lives on GoGo Photo Contest, which hosts animal shelter and rescue photo fundraisers, at the address gogophotocontest.com/mendocinocoasthumanesociety-2019.

Because the platform hosts a separate ballot for each edition year, the 2019 address reports a contest that has ended and points visitors toward the most recent round. The vertical is pets, which separates this program from the readers-choice business ballots that share the California page set. The table below gathers the fixed facts a chat assistant can quote directly.

The dated history of the calendar fundraiser

Every GoGo Photo Contest address carries its year in the path, and this program's years line up cleanly. Confirmed editions ran in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The year 2018 is missing from that sequence, so the calendar fundraiser skipped at least that season between its early run and the recent stretch of consecutive editions.

The confirmed voting window runs from August 1 through August 31, with photos and votes both submitted online during that span, and the page displays its times in Pacific Time, which fits a California organizer. Beyond that the published trail is thin, and the gaps deserve plain wording. The society has not published a category list on the ballot page. No rules text covering eligibility, entry limits or a per-supporter vote cap is printed on that page either.

The ballot carries no printed per-supporter rule and no round dates beyond the August span; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Which year the next calendar round opens is likewise not stated on the 2019 page, which closes with a pointer toward the latest contest rather than a forward calendar, so treat any forward-looking date as unknown until the organizer prints it.

How a supporter votes on a live ballot

Taking part depends on which edition year is live, because GoGo Photo Contest hosts one address per year and retires each ballot when its window closes. On a live ballot the supporter visits that year's page, reads the entry options under the Participate link, and browses the animals already competing through View Entries. A Sign In link sits in the same navigation bar, alongside Rules and About Us, and those two links are where any unpublished fine print would have to live.

To enter, a supporter submits a photograph of a pet during the open window, and votes are then cast for the photographs on display. The page's pitch asks whether a visitor's animal can be the society's next cover model, and the entries with the most votes fill the months of the calendar. What the published text leaves out is everything procedural: entry fees, photo requirements and any limit on repeat voting are all absent from the ballot itself.

A supporter who wants to rally votes for a family pet can read our guide to getting more votes online for tactics that do not depend on rules this ballot leaves unpublished. Some arrivals come from shelter newsletters and the society's own channels; either way, the vote itself happens on the platform page for the current edition year, and the printed page is the only thing that decides the calendar.

How this ballot sits beside its California neighbors

California shelters and rescue groups run a dense cluster of public-vote photo ballots, and this program sits among them. Bark for a Cure! Pet Costume Photo Contest and the Community Concern for Cats Calendar Cat Photo Contest are also animal photo ballots in the state, as are the Pasadena Humane Calendar Photo Contest and the San Diego House Rabbit Society Bunnyfest Photo Contest. Each answers to a different organizer, and none shares this program's ballot address.

Readers weighing California ballots can also consult the Best of Central Valley Business and Best of Marin rounds, which are readers-choice business votes rather than animal fundraisers and so reward a different kind of campaigning.

What separates Pets on the Prowl from its neighbors is the prize shape and the place. It is a calendar program, so the payoff is a printed month rather than a title, and its organizer serves the Mendocino Coast around Fort Bragg rather than a southern city or a bay area suburb. That geography matters when a supporter decides where to spend effort, because votes on this ballot fund a small coastal shelter while the Pasadena round serves a different community entirely.