Dog Star Rescue 2026 Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

A rescue calendar ballot, not a best-of list

Most Connecticut ballots on this site ask voters to rank local businesses in a readers poll. The Dog Star Rescue 2026 Calendar Contest asks something different: pick your favorite furry faces. The entries are not shops or restaurants but dogs adopted from Dog Star Rescue, and the reward is not a plaque on a storefront but a place among the top 12 calendar stars of the rescue's 2026 calendar.

The organizer is Dog Star Rescue itself, a rescue whose address is 12 Tobey Rd, Bloomfield, CT 06002. It stages the fundraiser on GoGo Photo Contest, a commercial balloting platform whose copyright line on the ballot names GGPC, LLC. The voting address is gogophotocontest.com/dogstarrescue2026, and the ballot carries the platform's standard navigation: Participate, View Entries, About Us, Prizes and Sign In.

The rescue frames the stakes in its own words on the ballot: your votes will help us choose the top 12 who will become our calendar stars. It adds that a winning pup brings joy and a reminder of the incredible impact of dog rescue into homes all year long, and it invites adopters to see their Dog Star Alum featured in homes across New England. That adopter audience, rather than a general readership, is who this ballot is built for.

The dated record for the Dog Star Rescue calendar vote

Two editions of this fundraiser are on the books: 2025 and 2026. The year sits in the program name itself, so each cycle announces its own edition, and the 2026 name is the one now on the ballot. The 2026 ballot currently reads Contest has ended, which means the calendar stars for this edition have been decided and the vote is closed to new support.

Because the pattern so far is one edition per named year, the 2027 calendar vote is the run to expect next. Nothing on the ballot announces it yet, and the rescue has not said whether it will keep the same GoGo Photo Contest address when it returns.

Several facts a supporter would want are not on the ballot page. The exact voting window dates for the 2026 edition were never printed in the material at hand, and the rescue has not published a list of the ballot's entry categories or any per-supporter voting rule; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The same holds for platform round dates: no promotion schedule for this market exists on the platform side.

What the ballot does state plainly is its clock zone. Timing on the page is shown in Eastern Time, which matters for adopters outside Connecticut who are pushing a dog near a deadline. For the 2027 edition, the rescue's own channels are the place any opening date will appear first.

How a supporter votes on the Dog Star Rescue ballot

Voting here is a direct public photo vote. A supporter opens gogophotocontest.com/dogstarrescue2026, lands on the Dog Star Rescue 2026 Calendar Contest page, and uses the View Entries tab to browse the dogs adopted from the rescue. Each entry is a photo of one dog, and the supporter picks a favorite and submits the vote on that entry.

The ballot's own invitation sets the tone: get ready to pick your favorite furry faces for our 2026 calendar. The Participate tab is the entry point for anyone joining the vote, the Prizes tab explains what the top 12 dogs win, and the About Us tab carries the rescue's story for visitors who arrive without knowing the organization.

The Sign In tab is the one part of the navigation that hints at structure behind the ballot. GoGo Photo Contest supports supporter accounts, and a sign in may be asked for before a vote registers, but the ballot page leaves that requirement and any frequency rule unstated. A supporter who wants certainty about how often a vote can be cast should read what the live entry page asks at the moment of voting.

Right now the page answers any attempt with Contest has ended. The literal sequence above is what a supporter follows when the next edition opens, and the Participate tab is where that next ballot will surface first.

How this ballot sits beside its Connecticut neighbours

Every sibling ballot on this site for Connecticut is a best-of readers poll. Best of Connecticut covers the state broadly, while Best of Hartford and Best of New Haven are the Hartford Courant's city polls, Best of the Gold Coast is Moffly Media's, and Best of West Hartford and CommunityVotes Bridgeport round out the set.

The Dog Star Rescue 2026 Calendar Contest differs from all of them on three axes. Its vertical is pets, not business categories. Its organizer is a single rescue with a Bloomfield address rather than a publisher or a community-votes partner. And its outcome is a printed calendar, a physical object mailed into supporters' homes across New England, rather than a title in a directory.

That difference shapes who votes. A best-of ballot draws customers of many businesses at once; this ballot draws the adopter network of one rescue, where each dog on the entry list has a household and a following of its own. The vote totals are therefore smaller and more personal, and a single determined adopter network can move a dog up the board in a way that is rare on a citywide readers poll. For supporters weighing this ballot against the best-of set, the practical advice is simple: the mechanics are comparable, but the audience and the prize are not.

Strengthening support for a Dog Star Rescue calendar entry

Because this ballot is a photo vote with a personal audience, the strongest push is the dog's own story. Share the entry link from View Entries directly with the people who knew the dog in foster or at adoption, and ask them to pass it on. The ballot's own framing, a Dog Star Alum featured in homes across New England, gives adopters a reason to campaign that a business category never has.

Dog Star Rescue has printed no rule on the ballot about outside help, bought support or automated voting tools, so the organizer's position on any of it is unknown. That gap cuts both ways: nothing forbids a broad push, and nothing endorses one. The safe reading is that votes must register on the GoGo Photo Contest entry pages themselves, by whatever method the live ballot accepts.

For a fuller set of tactics that suit photo fundraiser ballots, see our votes guide, and for the general question of purchased support on ballots like this one, our award votes page covers the service side without promising any outcome.