HEART Husky Rescue Four Seasons of Floof Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Four Seasons of Floof Calendar Contest?

The Four Seasons of Floof Calendar Contest raises money for the Husky Education And Rescue Team, Inc., a Severn, Maryland husky rescue, by letting the public buy votes for photographs of its dogs. HEART posts the ballot on GoGo Photo Contest, where it lives at gogophotocontest.com/heart under the full title "Four Seasons of Floof 2026 Calendar Photo Contest". Supporters back pictures of rescued huskies, and the most strongly backed images earn places in the rescue's printed 2026 calendar.

Who stands behind the ballot

HEART, short for Husky Education And Rescue Team, lists the contest on its own ballot as a fundraiser for the organization itself. Every element of the page, from the entry gallery to the rules tab, serves that single purpose: turning public enthusiasm for its dogs into operating support for the rescue. The group operates out of Severn, and because the ballot lives online, support can arrive from wherever husky lovers find the link.

What winning entries take home

Awards on this ballot attach to vote totals rather than to a judging panel. An entry whose votes reach $100 or more wins one calendar outright, and the top 36 entries earn a photo spot inside the 2026 calendar. Placement deeper down the ladder carries whatever the printed award lines specify, and nothing beyond those lines is advertised.

Which editions have run, and when did the latest window shut?

Editions of the floof calendar vote are confirmed for 2025 and 2026, and HEART treats the project as a fixture of its fundraising year. Its own description reads: "Our annual rescue calendar has evolved into one of our top annual fundraisers."

The 2026 calendar edition accepted photos and votes together up to a single cutoff: 9:00 PM Eastern Time on Friday, October 31, 2025. Past that moment the ballot flipped to a closed state, and it now announces the end of the contest at the top of the page.

What the ballot leaves off the page

Several operational details go unstated. The ballot publishes no category roster, because the contest pools husky photographs rather than dividing them into classes. Eligibility terms for entrants are not spelled out, nor is the day-level opening date for the voting window; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. HEART had also posted no opening or closing days for the following cycle by the time the current ballot closed.

How does a supporter cast a vote for a husky entry?

Voting on this ballot is a purchase. Each vote costs $1, and because the contest is framed as a fundraiser for HEART, that money moves straight into the rescue's hands. A supporter opens gogophotocontest.com/heart, looks through the entry gallery, picks a husky photograph, decides how many votes to give it, and finishes the payment step so the total lands on that entry.

Because votes are bought rather than clicked without charge, the contest rewards organized backing. A family, an office, or a husky owners' group can pool contributions behind a single dog, and every dollar committed counts toward that entry's standing and toward the rescue's fundraising total at the same time.

Finding your way around the ballot

The page keeps its tools in plain sight: a Participate tab for entrants, a View Entries gallery for browsers, a Rules tab, an About Us page, and a sign-in link for returning users. Nothing about the layout buries the voting path, which runs through the entry gallery and the payment screen, and the sequence is short enough that a first-time supporter can finish it in minutes.

Where does this husky ballot sit among Maryland's other public votes?

Maryland readers meet a crowd of best-of ballots every cycle, and the floof contest shares the state with several of them. Baltimore Magazine runs Best of Baltimore, Baltimore Style polls its Readers' Choice, the Baltimore Sun stages its own Best survey, Baltimore's Child honors family favorites, What's Up Media crowns Best of Annapolis, and the Frederick News Post runs Best of Frederick.

This husky ballot differs from all of them in shape and purpose. Those surveys sort a city's businesses and institutions into categories and hand out titles; the floof contest runs a single pool of dog photographs, charges for votes, and pays its winners in printed calendar placements. Its organizer is a rescue nonprofit rather than a publisher, its home base is Severn rather than a big-city newsroom, and its proceeds feed animal care rather than editorial operations. For a husky owner deciding where to spend effort, the real question is which prize matters more: a community title or a photo of a beloved dog in print for the whole year.

How can an entrant pull more support onto a husky photo?

Rallying support here means opening wallets, not just collecting clicks, because every vote is a paid donation. Entrants who do well tend to treat their entry like a small personal fundraiser: sharing the entry link with husky communities, posting the running total as it climbs, and saving the strongest appeal for the closing stretch, when supporters know the window is nearly shut. The prize structure rewards depth over breadth, since crossing the printed threshold secures a dog a place in print even if the leading slots slip away.

HEART publishes no guidance on outside promotion, so outreach should stay inside whatever the rules tab states. The wider playbook, from timing appeals to widening reach without brushing against an organizer's terms, is laid out in the guide to getting more votes online.