Valley View Veterinary Clinic Halloween Pet Photo Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Valley View Veterinary Clinic Halloween Pet Photo Contest is

The Valley View Veterinary Clinic Halloween Pet Photo Contest is a seasonal public vote built entirely around costumed pets. Valley View Veterinary Clinic, a veterinary practice in Idaho, owns the program and supplies the prizes, while the ballot itself is published on kool965.com, the website of the Kool 96.5 radio station serving the Twin Falls area. The contest sits in the pet photo vertical: local pet owners dress their animals for Halloween, submit the pictures during an entry window, and the community then picks a favorite from the finalist slate.

Because the vote runs on the station's own site instead of an outside balloting service, everything a supporter needs sits on a single page: the finalist photos, the vote controls and the printed rules. The ballot page for the 2024 edition lives at https://kool965.com/halloween-pet-photo-contest-2024/, and that address is the voting URL for the program.

The fixed details are collected below.

The 2024 voting window and the editions on file

Confirmed editions of the contest ran in 2023 and 2024, which is what marks it as a recurring Halloween fixture rather than a single event. The 2024 cycle is the better documented of the pair, because its full timeline was printed on the ballot page.

Entries were accepted until midnight on November 4th, 2024, with the deadline given as 11:59 p.m. MST. Finalists were then chosen and posted for community voting to begin November 5th, 2024. The 2024 ballot carried 17 finalists, and the printed rule allowed a vote of 1 time each day through November 15th. Prizes for the 2024 edition were announced on the same page, though the prize values themselves are not stated in the ballot text.

Whether the contest returns for a 2025 edition has not been announced; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The pattern to expect, based on the confirmed years, is an entry window closing in early November followed by a short community voting period, but the station has printed no dates for a future cycle.

How a supporter votes on the Halloween pet ballot

Voting here takes almost no setup, which is typical of a station-run community vote. To take part, a supporter loads the ballot page on kool965.com and scrolls through the finalist photos, each showing a pet in Halloween costume. A vote control sits with the finalists at the bottom of the page, and selecting it registers the choice for that finalist.

The rule that shapes everything else is the daily return: the 2024 ballot allowed a vote of 1 time each day. A supporter who votes on November 5th and never comes back contributes a single count, while a supporter who returns every day through the close of voting multiplies their contribution without doing anything more complicated than revisiting the page. The ballot page describes no account requirement and no payment step; the vote is free and open to the community.

For a finalist's supporters, the practical consequence is that the contest is won by reminders, not by a single push. Family, friends and clinic clients who are willing to bookmark the page and vote daily are worth far more than a larger group that votes once and forgets. That is the entire strategy the ballot's own structure rewards.

Where this contest sits among Idaho public votes

Idaho's public-vote landscape splits into a few recognizable shapes, and this contest is its own kind. The nearest neighbor in the pet vertical is the All About the Animals Coalition Pet Photo Calendar Contest, which also turns submitted pet photos into a public vote but feeds a calendar rather than a Halloween prize.

The rest of the state's slate is dominated by readers-choice surveys: the Best of Magic Valley Readers' Choice covers the Twin Falls region's businesses, the Best of Canyon County and Best of Greater Idaho Falls serve their own markets, the Best of North Idaho runs in the panhandle, and the Boise Area Parade of Homes covers a home-building audience.

What separates the Halloween pet contest from all of them is its shape: a single named sponsor clinic, a seasonal theme fixed to Halloween, a small finalist slate rather than a long category list, and a home on a radio station's own website instead of a dedicated balloting platform. For a pet owner in the Twin Falls area it is the most direct seasonal ballot of its kind.

Helping a finalist collect more daily votes

Because this ballot allows a vote of 1 time each day, support compounds through repetition rather than reach. A finalist's most effective move is a simple daily reminder to the people who already care: a morning post with the ballot link, a photo of the costumed pet, and a note of how many days remain before voting closes. Clinic clients who met the pet in the waiting room are a natural audience, and the Halloween theme gives the reminder a reason to exist every day of the window.

The organizer's own printed rules are what govern the ballot, so any push should stay inside them: the daily limit is stated on the page, and nothing beyond it is published. Supporters who want a wider toolkit of outreach methods, from reminder cadence to shareable link placement, can work through our votes guide, and the options specific to award-style public ballots are compared on buy award votes. Either way, the daily return is the mechanic this contest actually measures.