Rescue Love Pet Photo Contest and Calendar: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Rescue Love contest is and who runs it

The Rescue Love Pet Photo Contest and Calendar is a fundraiser run by Tulsa SPCA, the animal welfare organization based at 2910 Mohawk Blvd, Tulsa, OK 74110. It is a pet photo ballot: supporters vote for photographs of adopted dogs and cats, and the top animals are featured in the shelter's printed calendar. The 2026 cycle carries the title Rescue Love 2026 Pet Photo Calendar Contest, and the ballot page describes the fundraiser plainly as one for Tulsa SPCA.

Voting happens on GoGo Photo Contest, a platform that hosts charity photo ballots, with the Tulsa SPCA ballot living at gogophotocontest.com/tulsaspca. The ballot page carries the usual contest furniture: a View Entries link for browsing the animals, a Sign In link for accounts, and tabs for contest rules and prizes. Tulsa SPCA also maintains its own page for the Rescue Love Calendar Contest on tulsaspca.org, which is where the shelter describes the contest run and the entry process.

The tone of the program is set by the shelter itself: winners of the Rescue Love 2026 Calendar Pet Photo Contest will be featured in the 2026 calendar, but, as the ballot puts it, the real winners are the dogs and cats who found their fur-ever home. That framing matters for anyone weighing how hard to push for votes, because the ballot exists to fund shelter work first and crown favorites second.

The dated record for the Rescue Love ballot

The Rescue Love ballot has two confirmed editions, 2025 and 2026. The 2025 window is the one with printed times. Entries and voting began at 12:00 AM Central Time on Thursday, August 28, 2025, and voting ended at 8:00 PM Central Time on Thursday, September 25, 2025. That is a window of just under four weeks, which is the period supporters had to find their favorite animals and vote.

Tulsa SPCA's own contest page on tulsaspca.org describes the contest as running from August 12 to September 15, a slightly different span that appears to cover the entry and contest period the shelter advertises to its community. The two date ranges come from the shelter's page and the ballot page respectively, and both sit in late summer.

The 2026 edition has ended: the ballot states that the contest has ended and invites visitors to enjoy looking at the entries. Winners of the Rescue Love 2026 Calendar Pet Photo Contest will be featured in the shelter's 2026 calendar, and contest winners may be asked to re-submit their photos.

What the shelter has not printed on the ballot is a category list, and no per-supporter vote limit or eligibility rule appears in the rules material available here; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The entry rules that are printed are specific: entrants acknowledge and give permission to Tulsa SPCA to use the name, story and photo of the animal entered for future publications and materials, and a copyright release from the photographer is required with the entry.

How a supporter votes in the Rescue Love contest today

The Rescue Love ballot works as a straight public vote on GoGo Photo Contest. A supporter opens gogophotocontest.com/tulsaspca, uses the View Entries link to browse the entered dogs and cats, picks the animal they want to see in the calendar, and submits a vote. Each entry carries the pet's photo and story, so the vote is a choice between animals rather than between named categories.

The ballot page also carries a Sign In link, which means GoGo Photo Contest supports accounts, and a Prizes tab alongside the contest rules. What an account is required for, and whether the Tulsa SPCA ballot asks a voter to sign in before a vote counts, is not stated in the published material, so the practical check is to open the ballot and see what the vote action requests.

For entrants, the process runs through the shelter. Tulsa SPCA's page describes the contest period and asks for a copyright release from the photographer with the entry. By entering, a participant acknowledges and gives the shelter permission to use the animal's name, story and photo for future publications and materials, which is how the calendar gets made. Winners may be asked to re-submit their photo, so keeping the original file is worth remembering if your pet is near the top.

Because the 2026 edition has closed, a supporter arriving now will see a finished ballot. The action that matters today is watching for the next window to open and reading the rules tab when it does.

How this ballot sits beside other Oklahoma public votes

Among the Oklahoma public-vote programs this site covers, Tulsa SPCA's photo fundraiser is the only one run by an animal shelter. The neighbours are mostly reader and consumer ballots: 405 Magazine's Best of 405, Best of OKC, the Oklahoma Gazette's Best of OKC, and Best of the 405, plus the Norman Transcript's Readers' Choice and 2 News Oklahoma's Player of the Week.

The difference is what a vote does. In the best-of ballots, a vote ranks a business against competitors in a category. In the Rescue Love ballot, a vote sends a specific adopted dog or cat toward a page in the shelter's printed calendar, and every entry is an animal that already found a home. The emotional pull is different, and so is the supporter base: pet owners, adopters and local animal lovers rather than shoppers or sports fans.

It is also different in scale of stakes. Nobody's livelihood rides on a calendar spot, which is why the shelter can frame the whole thing around the animals being the real winners. For a Tulsa pet owner weighing where to put energy across Oklahoma ballots, this one rewards personal storytelling and photo sharing more than business-network mobilization, and the window is shorter than a typical best-of season.

Strengthening support for your pet's entry

Because the Rescue Love ballot is a public vote on GoGo Photo Contest, support comes down to how many people see your animal's entry and act on it. The entry carries your pet's photo and story, so lead with the story: a rescue tale travels further in Tulsa community groups than a bare photo link. Share the entry page directly rather than the ballot homepage, so a supporter lands one tap from the vote button.

Tulsa SPCA's printed rules focus on entry materials, the copyright release and the permission the shelter needs to publish the photo and story. The shelter has not published a statement about outside vote help, which makes the rules tab on the live ballot the thing to read before trying anything aggressive. Our votes guide covers outreach that works for photo fundraisers, and award vote support explains the general mechanics if you are weighing options. Whatever route you take, the calendar is a charity fundraiser, and support that looks like genuine community enthusiasm fits the ballot's spirit best.