2023 Furrever Friends Rescue & Volunteers Pet Photo Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Furrever Friends pet photo calendar contest is

The 2023 Furrever Friends Rescue & Volunteers Pet Photo Calendar Contest is a fundraiser built around one simple trade: pet owners pay to enter a photo, supporters vote for the pets they love, and the winning photos fill the rescue's printed calendar. Furrever Friends Rescue and Volunteers, an animal rescue based at 2000 Clements Bridge Rd in Woodbury, New Jersey, runs the program. The ballot itself lives on GoGo Photo Contest, a photo-contest platform, at gogophotocontest.com/ffrescue.

The page greets visitors with "Calling All Pets!" and frames the event as an annual fixture for the rescue's community. The vertical is pets, and supporters simply pick the pet photo they want to win. The ballot carries the standard GoGo Photo Contest furniture, including Participate, View Entries, Contest Rules, Prizes, Rules and About Us tabs, plus a Sign In link for returning users.

Facts at a glance

For a supporter, the practical picture is this: the calendar contest is the rescue's own fundraiser, hosted on a platform that specializes in exactly this format, and every rule that matters sits on the ballot's own tabs. Anyone comparing New Jersey public-vote programs will find this one sits beside media-run contests rather than competing with them, which the last section of this page covers.

The dated history: 2023 and 2024 editions

The confirmed history for this fundraiser is short and specific. The 2023 edition accepted entries from September 20, 2023, and ran its voting period from September 20, 2023 through November 24, 2023, all on Eastern Time. That is a window of roughly nine weeks, long by the standard of weekly media ballots, and it gave entrants most of a season to rally votes for their pets.

A 2024 edition followed, which is what makes the program annual rather than a one-off: the rescue's own page calls it annual, and two edition years, 2023 and 2024, are confirmed for the same ballot address. What the printed page does not carry is the shape of the 2024 window itself. The rescue printed its dates for 2023, but no equivalent month-day pair for the following cycle appears on the ballot text, so anyone planning around the 2024 edition should treat its exact open and close as unstated.

Three things sit outside the printed page entirely. The rescue has not published a category list for the calendar ballot, meaning the divisions pets compete within, if any, are visible only on the live form. It has not stated whether one supporter may vote for the same pet again and again, nor an eligibility rule. And it has not announced the next edition year. Each of those is a live-ballot question; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

One more dated fact matters to anyone arriving late: the 2023 page now reads contest has ended, so votes cast today would land in a future edition, not the closed one.

How a supporter votes in the calendar contest

The Furrever Friends ballot is deliberately simple, because the fundraiser depends on casual supporters acting on impulse. An entrant starts at gogophotocontest.com/ffrescue, follows the Participate path, and registers on the entry form. The rescue's photo standards are printed: photos should be in color, taken in high resolution, and an iPhone 6 or newer should suffice. Entries must show no humans, and if more than one pet is in the photo, the entry form governs how that is handled.

Once entries are live, a supporter's path is shorter. Open the ballot, use View Entries to browse the pets, pick the one to back, and press the vote control on that entry. The page runs on Eastern Time and displays the contest status, so a supporter can see at a glance whether the window is open or the contest has ended. During the 2023 cycle that status flipped to ended on November 24, 2023.

The fine print a careful supporter might want is absent from the page text: whether one person may vote repeatedly, whether an account is required to vote, and how repeat presses are handled. None of those rules appear in the page text, so the form's own behavior at the vote button is the only authority in the moment. A supporter who wants certainty should simply attempt the vote and read what the form says, rather than trusting a summary written for a different cycle.

Entrants who want their pet on the calendar should plan around the long window: with roughly nine weeks in 2023, steady weekly pushes beat a single late surge, because the close date is known well in advance.

How this ballot sits beside its New Jersey neighbours

Within New Jersey's public-vote field, the Furrever Friends calendar contest is the rescue-run entry, and its neighbours are mostly media products. The 94.5 PST Pet Costume Contest is the closest in subject, a radio-station pet ballot, but it belongs to a broadcaster rather than to the rescue itself. The Asbury Park Press High School Athlete of the Week and the Asbury Park Press Readers' Choice program cover sport and local business, both driven by a newspaper's readership.

Three more siblings round out the field: Bergen & Morris Top Dentists, the Best of Bergen Community's Choice Awards, and the Best of Jersey Shore Contest. Behind each of those New Jersey programs stands a different publisher, and none shares this ballot's address or its organizer.

What distinguishes the calendar contest is its purpose and its pace. It exists to fund a rescue and to produce a physical calendar, not to sell advertising or crown a business, and its 2023 window ran for roughly nine weeks instead of a single week. That length changes how a supporter helps: there is time to return, share again, and build momentum across a season rather than sprinting to one deadline.

Strengthening support for a pet's calendar entry

Because this ballot rewards whoever can rally the most supporters across a long window, the practical play for an entrant is audience work. Put the pet's entry link in front of friends, family and local groups, and repeat the ask as the close approaches; the 2023 cycle gave entrants from September 20 to November 24 to do it. The rescue's Contest Rules tab is the authority on what outside help it permits, so read it before engaging any paid support, and see buy award votes for how purchased support is generally discussed.