PS Pet Photo Contest 2025 - Hairy Pawter: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the PS Pet Photo Contest and who runs it?

The PS Pet Photo Contest 2025 - Hairy Pawter is a public photo vote for pets. Pilot Promotions organizes it, and the ballot runs on the Second Street platform, where the organizer is listed as The Pilot Promotions. The market is Southern Pines in North Carolina, and the vertical is pets, so this page sits with the pet ballots in the state rather than with sports polls.

The format on Second Street is a photo voting type, which means every entry is a photograph and supporters choose among those photographs. The program is a single confirmed edition, so this guide treats it as one dated ballot rather than a running series. The organizer also appears on the platform with other promotions, such as sweepstakes and survey entries, and those are separate programs that fall outside this guide.

Readers who search for the contest by name usually ask who is behind it. Pilot Promotions is the organizer, Second Street is the host, and Southern Pines is the city the ballot is tied to. North Carolina is the wider market, and the program is listed under that state.

When does this pet photo ballot run, and which editions are confirmed?

Only one edition of this program is confirmed, and it ran in 2025. The platform's dated listing shows voting open on May 19 and close on June 12, 2025, with the promotion now marked closed. Nothing in the listing points to a 2026 ballot under the same name.

This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

The window is the dated fact the listing gives, and the timeline above keeps the stage, the window and the note together. A reader planning around a future ballot has nothing firm to plan around yet, because the organizer has named no later date for this pet photo contest.

Past winners are not named on this page, and no category breakdown is given. A reader who needs the outcome of the 2025 ballot should check the closed ballot on the platform, where the listing shows its final state.

How does a supporter vote in this pet photo contest today?

Supporters back photo entries in a public ballot. The listing places this program under the public-vote mechanic, so the ballot is open to supporters and is not decided by a judge panel. A supporter backs a specific photograph shown on the Second Street ballot page, and the vote attaches to that entry.

A supporter starts on the Second Street ballot page for the PS Pet Photo Contest 2025 - Hairy Pawter, browses the photo entries, and casts a vote on the entry they want to back. The per-voter limit is not stated in the listing; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Any repeat vote should wait until that limit is clear to the supporter.

Two habits keep a supporter on the right side of the ballot. Vote while the window is open, and keep the entry name close at hand so the photo is easy to find again on the page. Voting itself is separate from telling friends about an entry, and sharing is a step covered in the support section further down.

How does this ballot sit beside other North Carolina pet contests?

Several other pet ballots sit in the same North Carolina group. The nearby listings include the 2025 #SAVEFURSYTH Pet Calendar Contest, the 2026 Dog of the Year Contest, the 2026 East Coast Dogs Calendar Contest, the 2026 Triangle Dog Of The Year, the Azalea Festival Pet Royalty Court Contest and the CFA Cutest Kids & Pets 2025. Each shares the pet vertical with this ballot, and each has its own page.

The Hairy Pawter ballot differs from those neighbours in two ways that the table below makes plain. It is a photo ballot with a single confirmed edition, and its window closed in 2025. Several neighbours carry 2026 in their names, which places them on a later cycle than this one.

For readers who want the general vote rules before comparing ballots, see how to get more votes online. The comparison stays inside North Carolina because all six neighbours share the state with this ballot.

How can a supporter strengthen support for an entry?

Ways supporters grow an entry

Growing support for an entry is mostly a matter of getting the ballot in front of the people who already know the pet. Share the entry with friends, family and local pet groups, and ask them to find the photo on the Second Street page rather than sending a single link without context. That keeps the vote public and open, which is what the public-vote mechanic is built for.

Where outside help meets the rules

Outside help is where the rules matter most. The listing does not describe the organizer's stance on paid or outside help, so no guide page can speak for Pilot Promotions on that point. Read whether buying votes is legal before choosing any service, and see the online vote service page for how those services are described.