Pug Rescue of Florida and Georgia Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Pug Rescue of Florida and Georgia Calendar Contest?

The Pug Rescue of Florida and Georgia Calendar Contest is a photo fundraiser run by Pug Rescue of Florida & Georgia on GoGo Photo Contest, a hosted ballot platform whose pages credit GGPC, LLC. The masthead slogan reads Enter Your Pug. Rally Your Fans. Save Lives., and it describes the format accurately: pug owners pay to submit a photo, supporters vote for the entries they favor, and the strongest totals earn places in the rescue's printed calendar. The ballot presents itself plainly as a fundraiser for the rescue, whose own history of saving pugs and pug mixes reaches back to 2003.

The organizer keeps a concrete footprint behind the fundraiser label: its contest materials carry a post office box in Windermere, Florida, anchoring the two-state operation the name promises. Hosting, meanwhile, belongs to GoGo Photo Contest, whose footer credits GGPC, LLC, so the ballot the public sees is a platform page raised for this rescue rather than a website the rescue runs itself.

Participation is open to followers in both states named in the rescue's title, and nothing on the ballot restricts voting by location. The result is decided entirely by public participation, with no judging panel and no editorial pick, which is what separates this pet fundraiser from the reader's choice surveys it shares a state with. Every vote, in the page's own framing, helps change a pug's life.

Which calendar editions have run, and when did the recent windows fall?

Editions and voting windows

Calendar contests are documented for 2024, 2025 and 2026, which makes this a repeating midsummer fundraiser rather than a one-off. The two cycles whose dates the ballot spells out follow the same rhythm of a June entry month and a July close.

The page currently carries the 2027 Pug Rescue of Florida & Georgia Calendar Contest. Its entry phase has closed and the ballot marks the contest as ended, so the live cycle sits beyond its voting stage while the page remains up for review. One structural detail stays off the page: the ballot does not lay out whether the vote runs in rounds before the final count, or how any such rounds would work; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter vote on the pug calendar ballot?

Casting a vote

Voting takes place on the rescue's page at gogophotocontest.com/pugrescueflga. A supporter opens the entries gallery, picks the pug photo to back, and submits a vote. The ballot's rule is generous and printed in its own text: people may vote as often as they like, and every vote shows on the contest webpage the moment it lands. The standings therefore behave like a running scoreboard, visible to any visitor straight away.

One practical point follows from that openness: because totals update publicly the instant a vote lands, entrants can time their appeals against visible gaps instead of guesswork. A supporter who sees a rival pull ahead mid-afternoon knows exactly how far behind their pug sits, and the same public board lets a campaign verify on the spot that a push actually registered.

The page navigation carries Participate, View Entries, Rules and About Us links beside a Sign In option, standard furniture for a GoGo Photo Contest ballot. Nothing on the page states that an account is required, so the vote path is open to any visitor. Voting itself is free; the costs attached to this contest belong to entering a photo, not to backing one.

That open-ended rule defines the contest's texture. A pug's total reflects repeated visits from a committed circle across the whole window, not a single burst of attention, and the public tally lets both entrants and supporters see exactly where a push is needed.

How does this pet calendar sit beside Florida's other fan ballots?

Within the Florida collection on this site, the nearest relative in format is the 2024 BEST BUDS Pin Up Paws Calendar Contest, another pet photo calendar decided by public votes. The rest of the state's lineup leans toward business surveys: the statewide Best of Florida Awards, Best of Orlando, Best of Tallahassee, Best of the Bay and the Best of Miami Readers' Poll.

The difference lies in the subject and the stake. Those ballots rank businesses and services across many categories; this one ranks rescued pugs for a printed calendar. Motivation differs as well, because a supporter here is usually cheering for one particular dog, sometimes a pug they know personally, which concentrates effort in a way a citywide survey rarely matches.

Cadence separates them too. This contest compresses its drama into a single midsummer window each year, while the readers' polls spread their voting across the calendar. A visitor arriving from one of those surveys should expect a narrower ballot with one subject lineup, a tighter electorate and outcomes driven by small, highly motivated groups rather than broad civic participation.

How can an entrant gather more support during the pug calendar vote?

An entrant's campaign splits into two jobs: a photo worth backing and a base big enough to keep backing it. Entry terms allow as many photos as an entrant wants, and every entry package includes one copy of the 2027 calendar with shipping covered, so the per-photo fee buys a keepsake alongside a shot at the lineup.

Since the ballot lets supporters return without limit, steady presence beats a single announcement. Share the direct ballot link, ask backers for repeat visits, and watch the public tally to see where another push is needed. Entrants weighing paid assistance can read how to get more votes online and the overview at is buying votes legal before committing to anything.