Faithful Friends Pet of the Year Photo Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Faithful Friends Pet of the Year contest and who runs it?

Faithful Friends Pet of the Year is a photo fundraiser presented by Faithful Friends Animal Society, a Delaware adoption organization whose shelter operates from 165 Airport Rd in New Castle, DE 19720. Its newest edition ran under the title Faithful Friends Pet of the Year 2025, and the ballot sits at https://www.gogophotocontest.com/faithfulfriendsanimalsociety on the GoGo Photo Contest platform. The page introduces the programme in its own words as a "Fundraiser for Faithful Friends Animal Society", wrapped in ordinary contest navigation rather than a news article or a social feed.

Entry is limited to shelter alumni. The ballot's opening announcement welcomes cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits and chickens by name, then extends the invitation to any other pet adopted from Faithful Friends. That welcome defines the entire competitor pool: no pet from another rescue, no breeder litter and no neighbour's animal qualifies, so every campaign on the ballot is built around a specific adopted Delaware pet and the household that took it home.

Item	Detail
Organizer	Faithful Friends Animal Society
Latest programme title	Faithful Friends Pet of the Year 2025
Format	Fundraiser photo vote
Platform	GoGo Photo Contest
Ballot address	"https://www.gogophotocontest.com/faithfulfriendsanimalsociety"
State	Delaware
Shelter address	165 Airport Rd, New Castle, DE 19720
Eligible entrants	Pets adopted from Faithful Friends
Galleries	Top 2 Dog Photos and Top 2 Cat Photos

Because the programme is a shelter fundraiser rather than a popularity poll, its incentive structure differs from the newspaper and sports ballots covering Delaware. Visibility and funds flow back to the adoption organization, and the featured animals are former residents whose stories their adopters already know. The natural supporter base is therefore personal rather than geographic: adopters, volunteers and their networks, dispersed across the state instead of clustered around a newsroom audience.

When did the Pet of the Year vote run, and what dates are known?

The calendar anchors to the last stretch of December. Text printed on the ballot states that applications are accepted only through December 22nd, and that voting takes place from December 23. Both halves matter to anyone planning a run: the entry phase shuts before the public vote begins, so a household that misses the application cutoff cannot appear on that year's ballot at all.

Two editions stand behind the programme, 2024 and 2025, each using the same Pet of the Year name with its year attached. The shelter's announcement treats each cycle as a freshly launched Pet of the Year Competition, and the platform footer beneath the ballot carries a copyright credit to GGPC, LLC for 2026, which shows the contest site stayed maintained between the two runs. What the ballot never printed, even while the 2025 edition was live, is the hour voting finishes; the page displayed a "Contest has ended" notice in Eastern Time once the edition closed, without ever naming a final moment.

Stage	Window	Notes
Applications	through December 22	FFAS alumni pets only
Public voting	from December 23	closing time not printed
Outcome	after voting closes	ranked by votes gathered in each gallery

One further gap deserves a sentence of its own: the number of voting rounds, any per-supporter daily limit and the detailed eligibility fine print all sit outside the rules text shown publicly; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter vote for a pet on the Faithful Friends ballot?

Voting happens directly on the contest page. A supporter opens the Faithful Friends ballot, moves to the View Entries tab, and finds the competing photographs split into a dog gallery titled Top 2 Dog Photos and a cat gallery titled Top 2 Cat Photos. Inside a gallery the supporter picks a favourite alumnus photograph and casts a vote for it on the spot.

What the page shows

The surface is compact. Participate explains how to enter an alumnus pet, View Entries holds the competing photographs, About Us describes the shelter behind the fundraiser, and Sign In points existing account holders to their profiles. Times referenced anywhere on the page display in Eastern Time, consistent with a Delaware-based organizer running on a national contest platform.

What the page leaves unsaid

Nothing in the visible text states whether casting a vote demands registration, whether the same person may return the following day and vote again, or how the galleries handle ties near the top. Those details decide how a support effort paces itself across the December window, and they are precisely the items to settle before committing to a visiting routine. A supporter who plans around assumptions instead of the printed terms risks misdirected evenings during the brief stretch between the December 23 opening and the unnamed finish.

Where does this pet vote sit among Delaware's other public contests?

Among Delaware's public-vote programmes this ballot owns a niche nobody else touches: companion animals. Its siblings cover the state's remaining formats. The News Journal Cutest Babies & Kids Photo Contest stages a portrait vote for young children, the Delaware Gazette 2026 Readers' Choice gathers best-of picks across local businesses and services, and the athlete ballots follow school sport week by week: 302Sports.com Athlete of the Week, the football and winter editions from Delaware Online, and the SI boys basketball poll.

Programme	Runner	Shape
Faithful Friends Pet of the Year	Faithful Friends Animal Society	annual pet photo fundraiser, December
News Journal Cutest Babies & Kids Photo Contest	News Journal	baby portrait vote
Delaware Gazette 2026 Readers' Choice	Delaware Gazette	best-of business ballot
302Sports.com Athlete of the Week	302Sports.com	weekly sport poll
Delaware Online Football Athlete of the Week	Delaware Online	weekly sport poll
Delaware Online Winter Athlete of the Week	Delaware Online	weekly sport poll
SI Delaware High School Boys Basketball Athlete of the Week	SI	weekly sport poll

The contrasts go beyond subject matter. Weekly athlete polls renew their pools continuously through a season, so momentum must be rebuilt again and again, while a readers' choice ballot spreads attention across a wide business directory for months. The Faithful Friends vote compresses instead into a narrow December stretch and concentrates on individual animals, so a supporter's reach rests on the adoption network behind a particular pet rather than on a newspaper's circulation or a school's enrolment. It is also the sole fundraiser in the group, which changes what winning means for the entrant's household.

How can a supporter help an adopted pet collect more votes?

Helping an adopted pet accumulate votes starts before the ballot opens. Applications shut on December 22, so an interested household should ready its photograph and entry details early in the month; once voting begins on December 23, the job turns to distribution. Share the direct gallery link with everybody who met the pet through the shelter, ask fellow adopters to pass it along, and note that a dog entry competes only inside the dog gallery, so a tightly aimed canine push beats a scattershot plea. The ballot's Rules tab is where the shelter states what forms of outside help it accepts, and tactics that transfer across public ballots generally are collected in this guide to earning more votes.