Live Free Animal Rescue Pet Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

Who runs the Live Free Animal Rescue Pet Calendar Contest?

Live Free Animal Rescue, shortened to LFAR on its own ballot, puts this contest together as a fundraiser for its rescue work. The current edition carries a partner credit in its opening lines: LFAR works with Stella Moon Photography, and the ballot presents the two names together from the first screen. The program reaches supporters in the Pelham, New Hampshire area, and it behaves like a charity drive rather than a commercial ranking exercise.

Money enters through participation. The ballot treats entry fees as donations, calls them tax deductible, and tells entrants that the email acknowledgment to an online donation serves as their tax receipt. Photographs face a content standard set by the organizer: any image whose content is deemed inappropriate, indecent or obscene can be kept off the ballot.

The upside for entrants is concrete. The top vote getter wins the coveted cover photo for the 2027 calendar, and all 12 winners see their pet featured as a pet of the month. After voting closes, a Calendar Photo Session puts the top 12 vote getters in front of the camera for the finished product.

When does the Live Free Animal Rescue calendar vote open and close?

Two editions anchor the program's history: a 2025 calendar and a 2026 calendar, each settled by public vote. The edition attached to this page produces the 2027 calendar, and its voting window is printed in full on the ballot. Voting opened at 9:00 AM Eastern Time on Monday, April 27, 2026 and closed at 9:00 PM Eastern Time on Sunday, May 31, 2026. Since then the ballot has carried a notice that the contest has ended.

An earlier voting period that the organizer printed on its own pages ran from 9:00 AM Eastern Time on Monday, March 10, 2025 until 9:00 PM Eastern Time on Sunday, April 13, 2025, which puts both known windows inside the spring. Nothing has appeared yet for the cycle after the 2027 calendar, so anyone planning an entry should watch the rescue's announcements through the winter.

The published pages are also silent on several operational points: rules covering vote frequency, voter eligibility and any division of the calendar into categories sit outside what the organizer has posted; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter vote in the pet calendar contest?

Everything a supporter needs sits in one navigation strip: Participate, View Entries, Contest Rules, Prizes, Rules, About and Sign In. The voting path runs through the middle of those tabs. A supporter opens the ballot at its live address, https://www.gogophotocontest.com/livefree2027, selects View Entries, scrolls the submitted pet photographs, and registers a vote for the entry that deserves a calendar month.

Entrants follow a different door on the same page: the Participate tab at the top of the ballot handles submissions, while View Entries serves people who only want to back a photograph someone else has entered.

No judging panel intervenes; the calendar's final lineup mirrors the vote totals as they stand when the window closes. Two practical points round out the picture. First, a Sign In link appears in the navigation, but the ballot nowhere states whether an account is required before a vote counts, so a supporter should test the flow rather than assume it. Second, the Contest Rules and Prizes tabs carry the operative terms for the edition on screen, which makes them the first stop for anyone unsure about frequency, entry costs or eligibility.

Both documented windows were framed in Eastern Time, so supporters outside that zone should convert the hours before planning a final-day vote. Because the whole exchange runs through a single web page, the process a supporter follows in late April matches the one from the window's final Sunday.

How does the pet calendar compare with other New Hampshire public votes?

New Hampshire runs a crowded field of public ballots, and this one stands apart from the best-of surveys most readers know. The state's best-of circuit includes Best of Mount Washington Valley (see its page), Best of the Lakes Region, Best of the Seacoast, CommunityVotes Manchester (see its page) and Best of NH, all of which ask voters to rank businesses, restaurants and services across a town, a region or the entire state.

The Live Free Animal Rescue Pet Calendar Contest borrows the same engine, a public vote, but points it at a different object: photographs of pets, with a fixed outcome of twelve calendar slots and a single cover. Three differences follow from that. The beneficiary is a charity rather than a business community, so every vote doubles as visibility for the rescue's work. The entries are images supplied by supporters, not storefronts, which makes the pull personal. And the outcome is bounded: twelve pets of the month and one cover, whereas a best-of survey spreads recognition across many categories.

CommunityVotes Manchester confines itself to the state's largest city, while this calendar draws from the rescue's own supporter base around Pelham. Readers weighing the two kinds of ballot can compare them directly through the Best of NH page, one of several separate New Hampshire ballots this site lists for the state's towns and regions.

How can a pet's supporters strengthen its calendar campaign?

A pet entry climbs on the size of the circle behind it. Start with the entry's own address: send it directly to friends and family with a request to vote the same day, because reminders beat general goodwill. Post it where the rescue's supporters already gather, since that audience cares about the outcome beyond the photo. Spread the asks across the window instead of stacking them on one day, and watch the ballot's standings so effort goes where it changes the result.

Stay inside the printed rules while doing all of this; the Contest Rules tab governs what outside assistance is acceptable, and its terms outrank any tactic. Methods that fit ballots like this one are collected in the guide to getting more votes online, and anyone weighing paid support can read the neutral rundown on award and contest votes before checking the rules.