2025 #SAVEFURSYTH Pet Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the #SAVEFURSYTH Pet Calendar Contest is and who runs it

The 2025 #SAVEFURSYTH Pet Calendar Contest is a photo fundraiser built around pets, run by Forsyth Humane Society, an animal welfare organization whose published address is 4881 Country Club Rd, Winston-Salem, NC 27104. The hashtag in the program name spells out the mission behind it: the shelter asks its community to #SAVEFURSYTH by backing the animals that live there. Compassion sits at the heart of what the society says it does, with its focus on serving more pets in the community and helping families and their animals.

The ballot itself sits at https://www.gogophotocontest.com/forsythhumane-2024, an address on GoGo Photo Contest, a platform built for paid photo votes. The page carries the standard navigation: Participate, View Entries, Promotions, Contest Rules, Prizes, Rules, About Us and Sign In. A supporter lands on a ballot titled "Forsyth Humane Society | 2025 #SAVEFURSYTH Pet Calendar Contest" with the tagline "Show Off Your Best Friend in 2025!"

The vertical here is pets, and supporters move entries up the standings through a public vote in which anyone can pay per vote for a favorite animal. That makes this ballot different in kind from the free reader-vote contests that newspapers run across North Carolina, a contrast explored later on this page. The essentials are gathered in the table below.

The dated record for the Forsyth Humane Society calendar

The 2025 calendar cycle ran from September 1, 2024 to November 30, 2024, a fall window that covers the whole run of nominations and voting in a single stretch. The ballot now displays a contest-has-ended notice, so the 2025 edition is closed and no votes can be cast on this URL until the shelter opens a new cycle.

The fundraiser has history. The organizer's own pages publish calendar winners for 2022, 2023 and 2024, and Forsyth Humane Society describes the rescue calendar as having "evolved into one of our top annual fundraisers." The 2025 edition followed that line of printed winners, and the shelter was already selling the finished product during the vote window: the 2025 calendar could be pre-ordered for $20, with pick-up or delivery available in Fall 2024.

The prize structure on the ballot is simple. Contestants who finish in the Top 100 will be recognized inside the calendar in a special collage featuring their entry photo. No prize tiers above that collage placement are described on the ballot page.

What the ballot does not carry is a category roster, and the round dates for the shelter's next calendar have not been announced either; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Everything else a supporter needs for a closed cycle, the window, the price and the recognition cutoff, is printed on the organizer's own pages.

How a supporter votes on the Forsyth Humane Society ballot

Voting on this ballot is a purchase. Each vote costs $1, and the organizer states plainly that "There is no limit to the number of votes you may cast for the duration of the contest." A supporter who wants a pet to rise in the standings can therefore vote as often as their budget allows between the opening and closing dates, which is a very different discipline from the once-a-day free ballots many North Carolina publishers run.

The route through the ballot follows the menu printed on the page. A supporter opens the contest URL, chooses View Entries to browse the competing pets, and selects the entry they want to back. The Sign In option sits in the menu alongside View Entries and Promotions, and the vote step completes with a $1 payment. Because the contest has ended for the 2025 calendar, these steps describe what a supporter will do when the shelter posts its next ballot rather than an action available today.

The paid structure changes how a campaign should be planned. On a free daily ballot, reach matters most, because each supporter contributes a vote a day. On the Forsyth Humane Society calendar, budget matters just as much, since every increment of support is a dollar. A pet backed by a small circle of devoted donors can outrank a pet with a wide but shallow audience, and the Top 100 collage cutoff gives every campaign a concrete, countable target rather than an abstract first place.

Where this ballot sits among North Carolina pet contests

North Carolina pet photo ballots come in two shapes, and the #SAVEFURSYTH calendar belongs to the paid, charity-run shape. The Mount Airy News Cutest Pet Contest, the O.Henry Pet Photo Contest and the The Pilot Cutest Kids and Pets Contest are all publisher-run ballots, where the audience of a newspaper or magazine supplies the votes and the prize is publicity.

The Forsyth Humane Society ballot inverts that arrangement. The shelter itself is the beneficiary, every vote is a $1 donation-shaped purchase, and the reward for supporters is a printed calendar their own pet appears in. A Winston-Salem pet owner choosing between these ballots is really choosing between a free vote for exposure and a paid vote that funds the shelter directly.

Wider North Carolina ballots sit even further from this one. The Best of North Carolina program and the Charlotte Magazine Best of the Best Awards rank businesses rather than pets, and the Charlotte Observer Athlete of the Week covers school sports. None of them shares the calendar format, the $1 vote price or the shelter mission that define the #SAVEFURSYTH program, which is why pet owners in the Winston-Salem area treat it as its own category of entry.

Strengthening support for a Forsyth Humane Society calendar entry

Because every vote on this ballot is a $1 purchase with no ceiling, the most direct way to strengthen an entry is to organize the pet's circle of supporters around the fall window. A family that lines up a handful of committed donors before September 1, when the cycle opened for the 2025 calendar, spreads the cost across the whole run instead of concentrating it near the November 30 close.

On the question of outside help, Forsyth Humane Society has printed no policy covering third-party vote services, so a supporter weighing that route has no organizer guidance to lean on and should treat the silence as a caution. What the ballot does publish is its own paid mechanic, which already functions as a legitimate way to add support: a dollar per vote, unlimited, with the proceeds serving the shelter's pets.

For a broader view of tactics that work on paid and free ballots alike, see our guide to getting more votes online, and for package-level detail see our votes page. Neither resource changes the ballot's own arithmetic: on the #SAVEFURSYTH calendar, steady paid support through the window is what carries a pet into the Top 100 collage.