Lu's Labs Labrador Retriever Rescue Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Lu's Labs calendar contest and who runs it?

The Lu's Labs Labrador Retriever Rescue Calendar Contest is a photo contest run by Lu's Labs Labrador Retriever Rescue, Inc., a Maryland rescue. Owners enter a photo of their lab, and the photos are then voted on by the public. The contest is the rescue's annual calendar fundraiser, and the organizer's own site is the only place the vote runs.

The market is Maryland statewide. The contest is open to lab owners who enter a photo, and the page does not restrict entries to a city or county. The vertical is Best of, because the contest is a community vote about the best entry rather than a sport, pageant or award program.

The contest's tone is set by its own invitation. The page asks whether a lab "has what it takes to be the top dog", and it promises that the entry will raise money for the rescue. That framing makes the calendar a fundraiser first and a ranking second, which is a useful distinction for a reader comparing it with the Maryland newspaper and magazine ballots.

Because the organizer runs the entire process from one site, a reader does not need to visit a separate voting platform. Every step, from the $15 entry to the $1 vote, happens on the organizer's own pages, so the rules a reader needs are the rules printed on that one site.

Item	Detail
Program	Lu's Labs Labrador Retriever Rescue Calendar Contest
Organizer	Lu's Labs Labrador Retriever Rescue, Inc.
Platform	Organizer's own contest site, gogophotocontest.com
Market	Maryland, statewide
Entry fee	$15
Vote price	$1 per vote

Which calendar contest editions are confirmed and when did they run?

Live ballots are confirmed for 2023, 2024 and 2025. The page titles the current contest the 2025 Calendar Contest and describes it as the annual contest, so the program has run in at least three years.

Readers should also note that the dated detail on the page reflects a single year, even though the contest itself is described as annual. A reader checking the 2025 calendar should therefore treat the September 2024 times as the last confirmed window and look for the current year's times on the live site.

The dated detail on the page belongs to the September 2024 voting window.

Entries closed at 8:00 PM Eastern on Sunday, September 15, 2024, and voting ran from 9:00 AM Eastern on Sunday, September 1, 2024 until 8:00 PM Eastern on Sunday, September 22, 2024. The timeline below keeps those dates separate from the calendar year they describe.

Stage	Window	Notes
Entries close, 2024	Sunday, September 15, 2024, 8:00 PM Eastern	Last day to enter a lab photo
Voting opens, 2024	Sunday, September 1, 2024, 9:00 AM Eastern	Public votes start at $1 each
Voting closes, 2024	Sunday, September 22, 2024, 8:00 PM Eastern	End of the dated 2024 window
2025 contest	Confirmed live ballot	Window not restated on this page

No category list is printed on the contest page, so the contest's categories are unknown here; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter enter and vote on the contest today?

The contest has two paid steps. An owner pays $15 to enter a photo of a lab, and a supporter pays $1 per vote to back an entry. The organizer's page says the entry fee lets an owner enter and have the lab featured in the calendar, while each vote is $1 and each dollar supports the rescue.

A supporter opens the contest site, browses the entries, and buys the votes for the lab they want to support. The organizer presents the contest as a fundraiser for the rescue, so the money from each vote is tied to the rescue's own work. The mechanics of general public ballots are covered in the guide to getting more votes online.

How does this calendar contest sit beside the Maryland Best of ballots?

Maryland has a group of Best of and readers' choice ballots, and this calendar contest is a different kind of program. It is a paid photo contest run by a rescue, while the others are community ballots run by their own organizers. The sibling programs include the Baltimore Magazine Best of Baltimore, the Baltimore Style Readers' Choice and the Baltimore Sun's Best.

The Baltimore's Child Readers' Choice Awards, the Best of Annapolis and the Best of Frederick complete the group. Each of those programs runs on its own organizer's terms, so the rules do not carry over to the calendar contest.

Program	Route
Baltimore Magazine Best of Baltimore	/usa/maryland/baltimore-magazine-best-of-baltimore/
Baltimore Style Readers' Choice	/usa/maryland/baltimore-style-readers-choice/
Baltimore Sun's Best	/usa/maryland/baltimore-sun-best-readers-choice/
Baltimore's Child Readers' Choice Awards	/usa/maryland/baltimores-child-readers-choice-awards/
Best of Annapolis	/usa/maryland/best-of-annapolis-whats-up-media/
Best of Frederick	/usa/maryland/best-of-frederick-frederick-news-post/

How can supporters help a lab's entry in the calendar contest?

The contest's own mechanic is a paid vote, so the clearest route is for supporters to buy votes for the entry they want and to ask other lab lovers to do the same. The organizer sells the votes directly on its contest site, and the price is set at $1 per vote.

A supporter who wants to avoid overpaying should compare the organizer's $1 vote price with any outside offer before spending money, since the organizer's rules govern which votes count. Readers who want the wider picture of how paid votes work on public ballots can read the award votes page. That page covers the general practice, while this contest's own price and organizer are the facts that matter for the calendar vote.

A supporter who wants to see the Maryland contests in one place can start at the Maryland contest hub, which lists the Best of and readers' choice ballots that run in the state.