Calendar of Pets Photo Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Calendar of Pets Photo Contest and who runs it?

Fayette Regional Humane Society, an Ohio animal-welfare organization whose printed mailing address is 4 Commercial Ave., Washington CH, OH 43160, stages the Calendar of Pets Photo Contest as a fundraising ballot built around photographs of pets. The ballot sits on GoGo Photo Contest, the platform carrying the society's pages, at https://www.gogophotocontest.com/fayetteregionalhumane.

Pet owners submit photographs of their animals, and supporters then back those entries with paid votes. The masthead sets the tone with the headline "Lights, Camera, Cuteness", and the navigation bar offers five destinations: Enter Contest, View Entries/Vote, Calendar Order, About Fayette Humane and Sign In. The stakes are concrete: the 12 pets with the most votes will each be featured as a monthly star in the society's 2026 calendar, and the Calendar Order link lets anyone purchase the finished product once it exists.

Key facts at a glance

Beyond the fundraiser itself, the ballot stays lean: the About Fayette Humane link is where the organization presents its own background, and the footer credits GGPC, LLC as the platform company behind the GoGo Photo Contest pages.

When does voting open and close, and what is the dated history?

The dated history of this ballot is short, because 2026 is the only edition year the program's documentation confirms.

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

Inside the 2026 cycle, the ballot carries more than one window passage, and readers should know how they differ. The header states the operative deadline directly: Voting Ends 10/17/2026 at 9:00 PM Eastern Time. A descriptive paragraph on the same page frames the voting span as "From August 17 through October 17". Separately, the organizer's campaign description reads "From June 1 through September 15, Fayette Regional Humane Society (FRHS) is holding our 2026 Calendar Photo Contest". Because the page shows more than one span, the countdown clock displayed at the top of the ballot is the deadline to rely on.

Fine print the society leaves off the ballot includes the category roster and any per-supporter voting limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Printed dates on the 2026 ballot

How does a supporter actually cast a vote on this ballot?

Voting happens entirely on the GoGo Photo Contest page built for the society. A supporter opens https://www.gogophotocontest.com/fayetteregionalhumane, picks View Entries/Vote from the menu, and browses the submitted pet photographs. Backing an entry is a paid action: the ballot tells entrants that "each $1 vote moves them closer to fame", so every click registers a dollar donation to Fayette Regional Humane Society and lifts that animal toward one of the 12 calendar months.

The ballot menu, mapped

No account rule is printed anywhere on the ballot. A Sign In link sits in the menu, yet the pages never say whether voting demands registration; if the payment step asks for one, that prompt comes from the platform's own screens. The entire flow is a standard web page, so it opens the same way in a phone browser as on a laptop, and no app enters the picture.

How does this ballot sit beside its Ohio neighbours?

Within this site's Ohio coverage, the Calendar of Pets Photo Contest has five documented neighbours, and they scatter across very different verticals. The closest cousin by theme is the Pints for Pets Beer Label Photo Contest, another pet-photo ballot, though one built around beer label art rather than a calendar. Medina County contributes two baby-photo programmes run by right-to-life organizers, both carrying the Life is Precious Baby Photo Contest name. Columbus adds 97.1 The Fan Pizza Madness Columbus, a radio-station food bracket, while Akron supplies a weekly high-school athlete poll and the Akron Community's Choice Awards.

Money is the dividing line between the humane society's ballot and every neighbour above it. Free fan polls, like the radio pizza bracket, ask only for clicks, whereas the Calendar of Pets Photo Contest converts every vote into a dollar of fundraiser revenue for Fayette Regional Humane Society. The prize differs too: instead of a title or a trophy, winning pets get photographed placement as monthly stars in the 2026 calendar, merchandise supporters can then order through the ballot. For an Ohio supporter deciding where to spend effort, the real choice is between mobilizing free clicks on a popularity poll and funding a charity ballot where each increment of support carries a price tag.

How can a supporter widen a pet's reach before the close?

Supporters aiming to land a pet in one of the 12 calendar months should treat the ballot as a small fundraising campaign. The core lever is visibility: share the entry's page from the GoGo Photo Contest ballot directly with neighbors, coworkers and pet-loving groups, since every conversion is a paid donation rather than a free click, personal appeals tend to outperform mass posts. Timing matters as well; the header countdown toward the 10/17/2026 9:00 PM Eastern close hands campaigners a natural urgency line for reminders. The society's pages do not publish a policy on bulk or third-party voting, so anything beyond ordinary outreach should follow whatever the checkout screens disclose. Broader, contest-neutral tactics for expanding a support base are collected in how to get more votes online.