Pet Pride's SuperCats Photo & Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the SuperCats contest is and who runs it

Pet Pride's SuperCats Photo & Calendar Contest is an online photo fundraiser run by Pet Pride of New York, a cat rescue whose address is 7731 Victor Mendon Road, Victor, NY 14564. The rescue describes its mission as saving the lives of homeless cats and kittens in its community by providing shelter, veterinary care, and placement into loving adoptive homes. The SuperCats contest is the fundraising engine behind that work: supporters pay to enter photos of their own cats, then pay again to vote for the entries they like best, and the winning photos earn spots in the rescue's printed calendar.

GoGo Photo Contest, which specializes in nonprofit photo fundraisers, carries the ballot at gogophotocontest.com/petprideny. The direct voting page is gogophotocontest.com/petprideny/pages/24292, and the rescue's contest home page sits at gogophotocontest.com/petprideny. The organizer's own ballot copy calls the 2026 cycle its fourth annual online photo contest, built to fill the 2027 calendar.

The key facts of the programme, all stated by the organizer or the platform, are these:

Because the contest is a paid-vote fundraiser by design, the mechanics differ from free reader-choice ballots: money is the unit of support, and the rescue says so outright rather than hiding it.

The dated record: editions, windows and what is unpublished

The SuperCats contest has confirmed runs in 2023, 2024 and 2026, which is what qualifies the programme as an annual one. The organizer's own ballot describes the current cycle as Pet Pride's fourth annual online photo contest, and it feeds the 2027 calendar, so 2027 is the year the next edition should land. The rescue has not printed a first-year date beyond those confirmed editions, and the calendar year the earlier editions fed is likewise not stated on the ballot.

The 2026 cycle carries two dated windows. Photo entry opened August 15, 2026 and closes September 15, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM, and the ballot's masthead repeats that entering deadline. Voting then starts September 16, 2026 at 6:00 AM Eastern Time and ends October 7, 2026. Both windows come from Pet Pride of New York's own contest pages, so they are the dates to plan around.

Three things the organizer has not published are worth flagging. The list of photo categories the SuperCats ballot uses is absent from the page, so confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The rescue also leaves the per-supporter ceiling and entrant eligibility off the ballot. And no round or phase dates beyond the two windows above appear anywhere on the ballot, so any intermediate milestone would need to be read off the live page when it posts.

One structural note: the entry phase and the voting phase are separate, with a one-day handover between the September 15 entry close and the September 16 voting start. A cat that misses the entry deadline cannot appear on the voting ballot that cycle, which makes the August date the one owners actually need to watch.

How a supporter votes in the SuperCats contest today

The mechanic on the SuperCats ballot is a paid public vote. A supporter opens the voting page at gogophotocontest.com/petprideny/pages/24292, browses the entered cats through the View Entries listing, picks a photo, and pays: Pet Pride of New York states that one dollar buys one vote, so a supporter who wants a cat to receive twenty votes pays twenty dollars. There is no free vote tier described on the ballot; money is the only unit of support the organizer describes.

Entering works on the same paid principle. A photo costs ten dollars to enter, and the ballot says you can enter as many photos as you like, so a household with several cats can put each of them in during the August 15 to September 15 window. Once entering closes at 11:59:59 PM on September 15, the ballot flips to voting mode at 6:00 AM Eastern Time on September 16, and the same page carries both phases in sequence.

The ballot's navigation shows what a supporter will actually see: Enter Contest, Calendar Order, View Entries, Rules, About Us and Sign In links across the top of the GoGo Photo Contest page. The Calendar Order link is where the printed 2027 calendar itself can be ordered, which matters to anyone who wants the finished product and not just a vote. The Sign In link suggests an account flow exists for entrants, though the ballot does not describe what signing in unlocks.

Because votes cost money by design, the practical question for a supporter is budget rather than frequency, and the rescue's own framing makes that explicit rather than leaving it to be inferred.

How the SuperCats ballot sits beside its New York neighbours

Within this site's New York coverage, the SuperCats contest belongs to the pet-fundraiser family rather than the reader's-choice family. Its closest neighbours are the Buffalo CARES Animal Rescue Calendar Contest and the Chautauqua County Humane Society's Hot Dogs Cool Cats Photo Contest, both also pet-vertical calendar fundraisers run by their own rescue organizations. Each answers to its own rescue, on its own ballot, with its own dates and costs, so a figure or rule from one says nothing about the others.

What separates the SuperCats contest from those two is its pricing model as the organizer states it: Pet Pride of New York prints one dollar per vote and ten dollars per photo directly on its ballot, making the paid structure the headline rather than a footnote. The rescue's base in Victor, near the Finger Lakes side of the state, also gives it a distinct local base compared with the Buffalo and Chautauqua County programmes further west.

The best-of programmes in the same state coverage work differently. Best of Brooklyn, Best of Hudson Valley, Best of New York City and Best of Queens are reader's-choice ballots across many business categories, free to vote in and driven by volume rather than dollars. A supporter moving from one of those to SuperCats should expect the opposite economics: fewer, costlier votes, and a single subject, cats, instead of a citywide category list.

For anyone comparing them, the useful check is always each programme's own ballot page, since dates and rules are set per organizer and change between cycles.

Strengthening support for a SuperCats entry

Because the SuperCats ballot prices votes at one dollar each, building support for a cat is mostly an outreach problem, not a mechanics problem. Pet Pride of New York's own structure rewards breadth: every person you reach who pays even a single dollar moves your cat's total. Sharing the cat's entry page directly, naming the October 7 close date in the ask, and reminding people that the money funds the rescue's shelter and vet care all give a share a reason to convert.

The organizer's rules on outside help are thin on the page: Pet Pride of New York has not published any statement about third-party voting services or automation, and it leaves the per-supporter ceiling unstated as well. What the ballot does make clear is that votes are paid, so any support that arrives without payment is not the mechanic the organizer built. Our votes guide covers outreach habits that fit paid photo fundraisers, and the service pages at buy votes online and award votes describe the general market without promising any result. No vote service can promise a win in a fundraiser whose outcome depends on how much every other cat's supporters spend.