Alley Cat Advocates 2017 Cat Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

A cat photo calendar, not a best-of ballot

Most Kentucky ballots covered on this site are readers' choice surveys: Best of Bowling Green, Best of Lexington KY, Chevy Chaser Best of Lex. The Alley Cat Advocates 2017 Cat Calendar Contest is a different animal in the literal sense. It is a pet photo fundraiser in which supporters upload pictures of their own cats, and the public votes the winning photos into a printed calendar. The ballot's own welcome line puts it plainly: make your kitty a star in the 2017 Alley Cat Advocates Cat Calendar.

The contest is a fundraiser for Alley Cat Advocates, a Louisville animal welfare effort whose address is given as 3524 Newburg Rd., Louisville, KY. The voting side is handled by GoGo Photo Contest, a dedicated photo contest platform, at gogophotocontest.com/alleycatadvocates-2016. That platform supplies the entry grid, the vote buttons, the sign-in flow and the rules template, and its footer carries the GGPC, LLC copyright line.

The vertical here is pets, which separates it from every best-of sibling in the state. Where a best-of ballot ranks businesses, this one ranks photographs, and the reward is a calendar month rather than a title. The table below pulls the fixed facts together for quick reference.

The dated record for this calendar contest

The latest confirmed voting window ran from 9am on July 7th, 2025 to 9pm on August 10th, 2025, Eastern Time. The organizer's own page states that online votes for photo entries begin at 9am on July 7th, 2025 and end at 9pm on August 10th, 2025. The contest page currently shows the contest has ended, which matches that closed window.

The calendar tradition behind the ballot is long. Confirmed editions of the contest ran in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, one per year, and the organizer describes the calendar as annual, with photos selected through GoGo Photo Contest each cycle. The 2017 edition named in the program title produced the calendar whose vote-getters were presented as Cat of the Month from January to December 2017, each with a Cat of the Month prize package.

What the ballot page does not publish is just as relevant. It carries no entry fee schedule, no breakdown of photo categories, and no statement of how often one supporter may vote. The contents of the current Cat of the Month prize packages are likewise absent from the material held here. The next edition year, and the dates of its voting window, are not stated ahead of time; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How a supporter votes on the GoGo Photo Contest ballot

The mechanic is the standard GoGo Photo Contest flow. The supporter journey starts at gogophotocontest.com/alleycatadvocates-2016, where the page presents a navigation menu with Participate, View Entries, Contest Rules, FAQ, Prizes and a Sign In link. Choosing View Entries loads the grid of cat photos that supporters have submitted, each entry carrying its own vote control.

Voting is a matter of selecting a photo and using its vote button. The page displays all times in Eastern Time, and the latest confirmed window ran from 9am on July 7th, 2025 until 9pm on August 10th, 2025. A supporter who wants a photo to finish among the vote-getters needs those votes banked before the 9pm Eastern close on the final day, because the page marks the contest as ended once the window closes.

Before voting repeatedly, the Contest Rules tab is the place to look. The text available for this ballot does not state how frequently a single person may vote, whether an account is required, or what eligibility applies to the photos themselves. Those conditions live on the live rules page, and they can change between editions, so reading them before organizing a voting push is the step most supporters skip and most need.

Where this ballot sits among its Kentucky neighbours

Kentucky's other ballots on this site answer a different question. Best of Bowling Green, Best in Kentucky, Best of Lexington KY, Best Places to Work in Kentucky, BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards and Chevy Chaser Best of Lex are all best-of programs: they rank businesses, employers, venues or productions across category lists, and a win is a marketing title. This contest instead ranks photographs of individual cats for a printed calendar, and the money raised supports Alley Cat Advocates in Louisville.

That difference changes how support works. In a best-of ballot, a business can campaign to its customer base for weeks. In a photo contest, the entry is one household's cat, so the natural supporter pool is smaller and more personal: friends, family, coworkers and fellow cat people. The BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards share the Louisville market with this contest, but their voters are theatre audiences, not pet owners.

The platform split matters too. The best-of siblings run on readers' choice polling systems, while this ballot runs on GoGo Photo Contest, which is built for photo entries, vote grids and prize packages. Anyone comparing vote tactics across the two formats should read the Best of Bowling Green page alongside this one and note how little the mechanics overlap. The Chevy Chaser Best of Lex ballot and the Best Places to Work in Kentucky program complete the state's set.

Strengthening support for a cat calendar entry

Photo fundraiser ballots reward early, personal campaigning. A strong photo submitted near the start of the window collects votes for weeks instead of days, and the entry link can be shared directly with the people most likely to vote for a specific cat. Because the latest confirmed window closed at 9pm Eastern on August 10th, 2025, timing any push against the live window's close is the first check.

The organizer's rules are the boundary. The text available for this ballot states no per-supporter voting frequency and no policy statement about outside voting help, so the Contest Rules tab on the live ballot governs what is allowed. A voting pattern padded with irregular activity can put the whole entry at risk under most photo contest rules, which is why steady, genuine sharing beats a sudden spike. Our votes guide walks through the sharing-first approach that fits ballots like this one.