Idaho Summer Pet Photo Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Idaho Summer Pet Photo Contest and who runs it?

The Idaho Summer Pet Photo Contest is a seasonal photo vote that Townsquare Media Twin Falls runs under its News Radio 1310 brand in Twin Falls, Idaho. Pet owners in the listening area submit photographs during an entry period, employees of the media group narrow the submissions to a slate of finalists, and the audience then decides the outcome by public vote. Crowdsignal hosts each edition as its own numbered poll, and the 2026 ballot sits at poll.fm/17189651, a dedicated page for that summer's field. The programme is a station promotion built around listener-submitted pet photographs rather than a clinic event or a charity calendar. Any prizes attached to a particular summer are announced with that cycle's own materials. What the poll page shows is the competitive core: the year in the title, the finalist names beneath it, and share prompts urging supporters to spread the ballot widely.

Item	Detail
Organizer	Townsquare Media Twin Falls (News Radio 1310)
Home market	Twin Falls, Idaho
Platform	Crowdsignal (poll.fm)
Ballot address	poll.fm/17189651
Format	Staff-selected finalists, public vote for a favorite picture
Vertical	Pet photo

Which editions have run, and what happened in the 2026 cycle?

Three edition years stand behind the programme: 2021, then 2023, then 2026, which marks the contest as a recurring summer fixture on the station's schedule. Nothing on the station's pages describes every intervening summer, so treat the published list as complete for planning purposes. On the pattern shown, the next window would fall in 2027, pending the station's own announcement. The 2026 cycle moved through four stages, laid out below, from a late-June entry cutoff to a mid-July public vote and a results announcement afterward.

Stage	When	What happens
Photo entry	through 11:59 p.m. MST, June 30, 2026	Listeners submit pet pictures before the cutoff
Staff shortlisting	between entry close and July 1	Townsquare Media employees pick the finalists
Public vote	July 1, 2026 through midnight on the 14th	A single daily vote per supporter for a favorite picture
Results	after the vote closes	Winners announced on the station's site

After the tally closed, News Radio 1310's site carried the headline "WINNERS ANNOUNCED: 2026 Idaho Summer Pet Photo Contest", confirming the cycle ran all the way to its result stage. The station publishes no category breakdown for the ballot; entries compete as one field of favorite pictures, and any grouping beyond that is not stated, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter actually cast a vote?

When a window is live, backing a pet takes four moves, and each one happens on the Crowdsignal poll itself. Open the ballot address, poll.fm/17189651, in any browser. Scroll the finalist slate of listener-submitted pet photographs chosen by the station's staff, and choose the picture you want to back. Then cast the vote. The station's rule is printed plainly: "You can vote one time every day for your favorite picture." That daily frequency is the whole arithmetic of the contest, since a pet backed by someone who returns every day accumulates the largest tally the terms allow. Between cycles the widget rests in a closed state; the 2026 page title reads "2026 Summer Pet Photo Contest (Poll Closed)", so a visit outside the window shows the finished field rather than a live button. Sharing is built into the design as well: the ballot's own text urges supporters to "Give others the chance to vote. Share this poll, because the more votes the better." Around the ballot itself, Crowdsignal's general polling framing appears, including prompts to create polls of one's own, which marks this as a multipurpose polling service carrying a station promotion rather than a purpose-built contest app. No sign-in step is printed on the poll, and the widget asks for nothing beyond the click on a favorite picture.

How does this ballot sit beside its Idaho neighbours?

The Summer Pet Photo Contest is one of several pet photo ballots run in Idaho, and its closest neighbours share the state but differ in season and sponsor. A Christmas Pet Photo Contest runs on kezj, and a parallel holiday edition runs on kool965; both occupy the winter slot where this contest occupies July. The In Our Christmas Pet Holiday Photo Contest adds a third winter option, while the Valley View Veterinary Clinic Halloween Pet Photo Contest anchors the autumn. Two further programmes come from the All About the Animals Coalition, its Pet Photo Calendar Contest and its 2027 Pet Photo Calendar Contest, both carrying the calendar format in their titles. Against that field, this ballot's distinguishing traits are its radio-station organizer, its staff-shortlisted format, and its mid-summer window. A reader comparing Idaho pet contests is really choosing among three shapes: the station promotion, the veterinary clinic's seasonal vote, and the coalition's calendar editions. Every neighbour is listed at the bottom of this page for side-by-side reading, and each carries its own dates and rules worth checking before committing effort.

How can a supporter strengthen a pet's chances within the rules?

Support in this contest compounds through the daily rule rather than through any single burst. A backer who returns on every day of the July window gives a pet the largest tally the printed terms allow, and the ballot's own share prompt makes the second move explicit: passing the link along recruits new daily voters instead of extra clicks from the same person. Friends, family and coworkers each represent one more daily vote when they adopt the same habit. Timing matters too, because the entry deadline falls before any finalist list exists. Since Townsquare Media's staff shortlist appears only when voting opens on July 1, outreach to likely daily voters has a ballot to point at just from that date onward, while earlier groundwork goes into lining up the people who will commit to returning every day. Outside help is a separate question. The station's announcement covers the entry cutoff and the voting frequency but publishes nothing about third-party voting assistance, so anyone considering paid support should read the live terms first. Background reading on campaign tactics sits at the votes guide, and the service landscape is summarized on the buying overview; whichever path a campaigner takes, the organizer's daily rule defines what playing by the book looks like.