Bluegrass Pug Rescue Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What's confirmed about the Bluegrass Pug Rescue Calendar Contest

Two confirmed editions and one dated voting window are what the page actually prints for the Bluegrass Pug Rescue Calendar Contest. Bluegrass Pug Rescue, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, runs the fundraiser through GoGo Photo Contest at gogophotocontest.com/bluegrasspugrescue-2023, and its own copy places a confirmed cycle in 2023 and a second one carrying the 2024 calendar name.

Voting opened at 12:00 AM Eastern on Saturday, August 19, 2023 and closed at 9:00 PM Eastern on Sunday, September 3, 2023, a window of a little over two weeks. Prizes are tied directly to the vote count: the 13 pugs pulling the most votes get a page inside the printed calendar, and whichever pug leads the entire field is placed on the cover.

Categories and any vote cap go unpublished; confirm on the live ballot each cycle before promising a supporter a specific rule the page itself hasn't printed.

A calendar prize, not a single grand-prize photo

Instead of naming one winning photo, the contest spreads its prize across 13 spots inside a printed product. Every pug that finishes among the top 13 in votes earns a page in the Bluegrass Pug Rescue 2024 Calendar, and the pug that finishes first overall gets the cover rather than an interior page. That structure rewards a wider group of supporters than a single-winner contest would, since 12 pugs besides the cover pug still see a photo printed.

The rescue frames the whole contest as its own fundraiser rather than a side promotion run by an outside sponsor. Nothing published spells out exactly where the raised money goes beyond supporting Bluegrass Pug Rescue, Inc. itself, so a supporter backing a specific pug is, by the page's own framing, backing the rescue's broader work at the same time.

Two editions, not a long-running annual fixture

Only two cycles show up in what's confirmed here, one carrying a 2023 label and one carrying a 2024 label. That's not much runway to call the program a decade-old fixture the way some calendar fundraisers can. A supporter weighing whether to back a pug this cycle is backing a program still early in establishing itself, not one with ten years of past calendars to point to.

Louisville's own fundraiser, not a statewide pug ballot

Kentucky runs a handful of very different public-vote programs, and lumping this one in with the state's business "best of" ballots misreads what it actually is. Best in Kentucky and Best of Lexington KY invite readers to name and support businesses across dozens of categories, statewide or regionally. Best of Bowling Green and Chevy Chaser Best of Lex narrow that same business-ballot format to single cities. Best Places to Work in Kentucky scores employers, not shelters or pets, and BroadwayWorld Louisville Awards covers theater productions in Louisville specifically.

None of those six share a ballot, a judging pool, or a prize structure with Bluegrass Pug Rescue's calendar fundraiser. A pug photo doing well here carries no weight toward a business award, and a business doing well in Best in Kentucky earns nothing toward this rescue's calendar.

Getting a pug's photo into the top 13

With only 13 calendar spots and one cover slot at stake, and no published vote cap to work around, the most direct path is simply asking people who already know that specific pug, an adopter, a foster family, a regular volunteer, to actually click through to gogophotocontest.com/bluegrasspugrescue-2023 and vote before the window closes. Repeating that ask more than once tends to matter more than a single post made early in the cycle.

Since Bluegrass Pug Rescue, Inc. runs this itself as a fundraiser, a padded or automated vote count risks the entry on a program that's only two editions into its own history, a steeper cost than the same risk would carry on a longer-running ballot. is buying votes legal lays out that line before any outside help gets involved, and fan-poll vote delivery covers the mechanics that apply to a fundraiser shaped like this one just as much as to any other public vote.