Focus On Ferals Purrfect Days: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Focus On Ferals Purrfect Days calendar contest?

Purrfect Days is the calendar photo contest Focus On Ferals stages to cover veterinary costs for the homeless felines it helps. The organization works from Brainardsville in New York and receives mail at PO Box 274, Brainardsville, NY 12915. Its founder, Gina Bajrić, built the group around caring for stray and sick cats: her 2005 start paired Trap-Neuter-Return services with hands-on care for a handful of strays in her garage, and that rescue work is what the calendar proceeds bankroll today.

Balloting runs on GoGo Photo Contest, a donate-to-vote fundraising platform whose footer bears a 2026 copyright for GGPC, LLC. The platform brands itself "The #1 Donate-To-Vote Fundraising Platform" on the pages it serves, a label that matches the exchange this ballot actually runs on. The contest address is gogophotocontest.com/focusonferals, where the menu offers Participate, View Entries, Rules and About Us.

Several traits define the format. Submitting a photo costs nothing, the ballot blaring FREE TO ENTER!!!, and any animal can star in an entry, since contestants need not be alumnae to FOF. Backing an entry, meanwhile, flows through donations, which turns every vote into revenue for the cats' veterinary budget.

On this site the program files under the best-of vertical for New York, though its subject matter, companion animals rather than businesses, places it nearer to a charity drive than a popularity ranking.

Which Purrfect Days editions are dated, and what stays unpublished?

Confirmed editions stand at 2025 and 2026. The 2026 ballot headed itself 2026 Purrfect Days above a Purrfect Days Calendar Contest masthead, announcing the cycle in the organizer's own words, "Focus on Ferals is excited to launch its 2026 \"Purrfect Days\" Calendar Contest," and after the run finished it switched to a Contest has ended notice, so a visitor arriving now sees a wrapped campaign rather than a live form. Every deadline the platform enforces is measured in Eastern Time, which matters for a supporter donating from another time zone: the printed cutoffs stay fixed to the ballot's clock, not the donor's.

The publishing side leaves blanks. No category lineup, no daily return rule and no supporter eligibility terms appear in the ballot's printed material; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Day-level open and close moments for coming cycles sit outside what the page prints today as well. Because Focus On Ferals runs Purrfect Days as an annual fixture, a 2027 successor is the fair expectation, announced on the organizer's own pages whenever it goes live.

How does a supporter vote in the Purrfect Days fundraiser?

The exchange at the heart of Purrfect Days is money for votes. The ballot prints its own conversion, $1 equals 1 vote and $5 equals 5 votes, with larger brackets shown beside them, so a backer shapes an entry's fate by picking a gift size. Focus On Ferals frames the upside plainly: the more votes received, the more donations received to cover veterinary costs.

Acting on it takes a short path. A supporter opens the ballot on GoGo Photo Contest, browses the field through View Entries and completes the donation form on the chosen photo. Entrants instead start at Participate, where submitting costs nothing and any animal qualifies, whether or not the pet has prior history with the rescue. The organizer sums up the experience on its own ballot: "Voting is fun and easy and open to any animal."

A Sign In link sits in the ballot navigation, giving returning backers a place to manage their activity. Promotional offers, when the organizer schedules them, surface inside the entry process itself, as the 2025 rounds demonstrated.

How does Purrfect Days compare with New York's best-of ballots?

New York carries a whole family of public-vote programs on this site, all of them in the best-of line: Best of Brooklyn, Best of Hudson Valley, The City's Best for New York City, Best of Queens, Best of the Bronx and Best of Westchester. Those ballots rank restaurants, shops, services and local personalities across broad category slates, chasing a wide civic readership in each market.

Purrfect Days competes for attention differently. Its subject is the photographed animal rather than a local business, its engine converts donations instead of counting free clicks, and its proceeds flow to a named cause, veterinary care for homeless felines. A best-of voter flipping through dozens of categories has little reason to detour into a calendar contest, while a rescue supporter has little stake in which bagel shop wins a borough poll.

The money tie also changes how a leaderboard reads. Every step up a Purrfect Days entry's standing represents dollars given, so its rankings double as a running gauge of what the rescue has banked toward veterinary bills, a quality the borough and county best-of tables around New York do not carry.

Geography splits them as well. The best-of ballots anchor to city and county audiences, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Westchester and the Hudson Valley corridor, while Purrfect Days speaks from its Brainardsville address to a statewide pool of entrants, welcoming submissions no matter where in New York the photographer lives. Matching the format to the goal keeps both worlds apart: civic recognition on the best-of side, direct fundraising on this page's subject.

How can an entrant widen support for a Purrfect Days photo?

An entrant chasing broader support starts from the organizer's own counsel, encourage your friends and family to vote for your photo, because votes and donations climb together. A shared link that lands supporters directly on the photo's donation form removes friction, and pointing people at the picture's own page rather than the contest homepage spares them a hunt through the entry grid before the giving starts. A personal note about the cat in the photograph tends to travel further than a bare request.

Timing sharpens the push. Entry-period bonuses like the 2025 promotional windows reward submissions that arrive early, and a photo holding momentum before the final stretch of an October cycle is easier to defend than a late surge. The outreach guide gathers further methods that fit photo-based fundraisers of this shape.