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

What the Valley View Halloween Pet Photo Contest is and who runs it

Valley View Veterinary Clinic's Halloween Pet Photo Contest is a public-vote pet photo program run out of the newsroom of News Radio 1310 KLIX, the news and talk station serving Twin Falls and the wider Magic Valley region of Idaho. The station keeps the ballot on its own website, at the photo contest category page newsradio1310.com/category/photo-contest/, rather than handing the voting to an outside contest platform. Valley View Veterinary Clinic, a Twin Falls area clinic, lends its name to the Halloween edition, and the station publishes the entries, the vote links and the winners announcements on the same page that carries its Magic Valley news coverage.

The format is a photo contest: supporters pick a pet photo and cast a click vote, and the station later posts a winners item once voting closes, as it did after the 2026 round. The table below pulls the page's fixed facts together.

Because the publisher hosts the ballot itself, everything a supporter needs, from the entry photos to the vote buttons, is in one place, and the station's other community promotions, from Roaring Springs ticket giveaways to the Twin Falls County Fair, run alongside it on the same site.

The dated trail of editions and what the station leaves off the page

The station's photo contest category page carries a run of confirmed editions stretching from 2021 through 2026. Each year produced its own ballot and its own winners post: the 2026 item, headlined as the Valley View Veterinary Clinic Pet Photo Contest winners, notes that the voting is over and congratulates the winning entries. On that track, 2027 would be the next edition in the sequence, though the station has not yet posted a 2027 ballot.

Missing from the page is a dated calendar for the Halloween round itself. No open date, no close date and no entry deadline for the Halloween edition appear alongside the winners posts, so a supporter planning a push cannot pin the window from the site alone. The station has also not printed the ballot's category lineup, its entry rules, or any limit on repeat voting; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Two practical notes follow from that gap. First, check the category page directly when a new edition is due, since the station posts each new ballot there as it opens. Second, treat any date a third party quotes for this contest as unverified until the station's own page shows it, because the winners posts, not a standing schedule, are the only dated items the site carries between editions.

How a supporter votes on the KLIX ballot today

Voting runs on the station's own site, and the mechanic is a click. A supporter opens the photo contest category page at newsradio1310.com, scrolls to the current Valley View Veterinary Clinic ballot, and clicks the vote link beside the pet photo they want to back. The page labels each contest entry with a VOTE link, so no account, no login and no separate platform are involved in casting a vote.

The same category page is also where a supporter follows the contest's life cycle. Before voting opens, the station promotes the incoming ballot there; while voting runs, the vote links sit live on the page; after the close, the vote links come down and a winners post goes up in their place, as happened with the 2026 winners announcement.

Because the ballot is a plain web page rather than an app or a gated platform, a supporter can come back to the page to check how the field looks, and the station's trending sidebar, which carries its other community promotions, sits beside the contest the whole time. The page leaves one thing unsaid: whether votes are limited per person or per day. A supporter who plans to vote repeatedly should watch for any instruction printed on the live ballot instead of assuming a rule.

Where this ballot sits among Idaho's public-vote programs

Within Idaho, this contest sits in a small family of public-vote programs. The closest neighbour in kind is the All About the Animals Coalition Pet Photo Calendar Contest, another pet photo ballot run by an animal welfare coalition. The rest of the state's lineup leans toward reader's choice and best-of voting: Best of Magic Valley Readers' Choice serves the same Twin Falls and Magic Valley audience this contest belongs to, Best of Canyon County covers Canyon County, Best of Greater Idaho Falls and Best of North Idaho from the Coeur d'Alene Press serve their own regions, and the Boise Area Parade of Homes runs a best-of format for the capital's home building scene.

What sets the Valley View ballot apart from all of them is its host. Every other program in the Idaho set answers to a community organization, a newspaper or a readers' choice publisher; this one answers to a radio station, News Radio 1310 KLIX, and lives on the station's own news site beside its Magic Valley coverage. That also makes it the only one of the group tied to a holiday theme, with the Halloween edition running under a veterinary clinic's name.

Building support inside what this ballot actually asks

Support in this contest is built on the click: every vote a pet receives comes from someone opening the KLIX photo contest page and pressing the vote link beside that photo. That shapes what help actually looks like. The owner who shares the direct link to the photo contest page, asks friends and family to click, and reminds them while the ballot is live is working entirely inside what the contest asks of its audience. The station has said nothing, on its site or anywhere else, about outside voting help, so the honest position is that nothing there either invites or forbids it. For a broader look at how supporters grow a vote count in public contests of this kind, see the guide on how to get more votes online, and for the rules question, the page on whether buying votes is legal sets out the general legal position without guessing at this station's own enforcement.