Dachshund Rescue of Bucks County & NJ DRBC 2027 Cutie Pie Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the DRBC Cutie Pie Calendar Contest is

DRBC, the Dachshund Rescue of Bucks County & NJ headquartered at 181 Gilbert Dr in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, runs the Cutie Pie Calendar Contest as its own photo fundraiser. Both states in its long title appear in its service identity, and its supporter community follows that footprint. The contest is the rescue's own fundraising vehicle rather than a media award, and the ballot page frames it simply: enter a favorite photo of a doxie, doxie mix or doxie wanna-be to win a coveted spot in the 2027 DRBC Calendar.

The technical host is GoGo Photo Contest, a service dedicated to charity photo ballots, reachable at gogophotocontest.com/drbc. The page carries the usual platform furniture: a contest rules link, an about-us link, a sign-in prompt and a fundraising meter showing a goal of $20,000 for the rescue. That goal is the number to keep in mind, because the calendar vote and the fundraising push are the same activity; every supporter who arrives to vote for a cutie pie is also arriving at a donation page for dachshund rescue work.

Three things distinguish this ballot from a typical best-of list. The entries are dogs, not businesses. The prize is a printed calendar page, not a plaque or a magazine title. And the organizer is a nonprofit that profits directly from the attention the vote generates, which shapes how its rules and its expectations of supporters read.

The dated history of the Cutie Pie ballot

The Cutie Pie Calendar Contest has a long confirmed history with visible gaps. Confirmed editions run in 2014, then in every year from 2016 through 2024, with the 2027 contest now on the live ballot. No confirmed edition appears in 2015, so the rescue's calendar fundraiser has skipped at least that year even across its long run. Anyone quoting this program's history should quote those gaps as well as the length.

The 2027 cycle carries a pair of dated signals. The contest page header states that the contest starts 9/21/2026 at 12:01 AM Eastern Time. Separately, DRBC's own posts to supporters say that starting September 15th there is lots of time to get as many votes as possible, which puts the practical vote-gathering window in the middle of September even before the formal start on the twenty-first. The ballot's closing date for 2026 is not printed anywhere in the material available for this guide, though the timing data points to a September close.

The ballot page itself leaves other basics unstated: DRBC has not printed the list of photo categories, nor a vote cap or eligibility text, anywhere on it; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. That gap matters less here than on a media ballot, because the prize structure is visible on the page itself, a spot in the 2027 calendar, and the fundraising goal anchors the contest's purpose without needing a category breakdown.

For recurrence planning, the pattern to state plainly is this: a confirmed 2027 edition, a confirmed start date of 9/21/2026 at 12:01 AM Eastern Time, and a confirmed September 15th vote-gathering date from the rescue itself. Anything beyond that, including whether the contest returns for a 2028 calendar and when its next entry window opens, is a question the live ballot answers better than any summary.

How a supporter votes on the DRBC ballot

The mechanic is a photo-entry vote rather than a write-in or a nomination round. A supporter goes to gogophotocontest.com/drbc, signs in on GoGo Photo Contest, and either enters a photo of a doxie, doxie mix or doxie wanna-be or votes for entries already posted. The ballot page makes the prize explicit: winning photos take coveted spots in the 2027 DRBC Calendar, so the vote is a direct choice about which dogs appear in print next year.

DRBC's own advice to entrants is specific about timing and effort. The rescue tells supporters to post the entry on social media and ask followers to vote, and it notes that starting September 15th there is lots of time to accumulate as many votes as possible. That guidance is the clearest signal of what the contest rewards: sustained sharing across the rescue's regional community, not a single-day push.

The practical sequence a supporter follows today looks like this. Open the ballot URL directly rather than searching for the contest, since the GoGo Photo Contest page for DRBC carries the current cycle. Sign in with the platform account the entry uses. Enter the photo while the entry window is open, then return to vote and to share the entry link. The fundraising meter toward the $20,000 goal sits beside the vote, and supporters who want to help the rescue beyond voting can donate there.

Nothing on the ballot page describes paid voting tiers, and the page does not describe any limit on how often an account may return. Because the rules text is not reproduced in the material available here, a supporter planning a serious vote campaign should read the rules page linked from the ballot header before committing time to it.

How this ballot sits beside its Pennsylvania neighbours

Most Pennsylvania ballots on this site come from media publishers running best-of votes, and DRBC's calendar contest sits outside that family even though it uses the same public-vote machinery. The state's sibling ballots here include Best of Berks (Berks County Living Magazine), Best of Philly (Philadelphia Magazine), Best of the 'Burgh, Best of the Lehigh Valley (Lehigh Valley Style), Bucks County & Chester County Readers' Choice and Erie Reader Best of Erie.

Each of those ballots is a business reputation contest: readers vote for restaurants, shops and services, and the publisher sells visibility around the results. DRBC's ballot inverts the model. The entries are pets, the organizer is a nonprofit rescue in Morrisville rather than a publication, and the reward is a calendar page rather than a marketing title. The closest structural cousin in the sibling set is the Bucks County & Chester County Readers' Choice, which shares DRBC's home county, but even there the subject matter and the organizer's purpose differ completely.

For a supporter, the practical difference shows up in how votes move. In a best-of ballot a business campaigns to its customer base; in the Cutie Pie contest a doxie owner campaigns to family, friends and the region's dachshund community. The emotional pull of a rescue calendar changes the sharing dynamic, and DRBC leans into it explicitly by telling entrants to ask their followers to vote from mid-September onward. Someone comparing vote strategies across these Pennsylvania ballots should treat the calendar contest as its own case rather than exporting a best-of playbook to it.

Strengthening support for a doxie entry

The winning approach DRBC itself recommends is the one built into the contest's design: share the entry on social media and ask followers to vote, starting September 15th so the entry has weeks of runway before the ballot's formal 9/21/2026 start and the September close. A rescue calendar vote is won on sharing cadence, and the rescue's community of doxie owners is the audience most likely to respond.

Because DRBC has not published its rules on outside vote help for this ballot, entrants should read the rules page linked from the ballot header before spending money on any vote support, and the general legal background is covered at is buying votes legal. What is safe to state is the mechanic itself: GoGo Photo Contest tallies community votes on photo entries, the $20,000 fundraising goal runs beside the vote, and no paid voting tier is described on the page. Support built through genuine sharing, reminders and the rescue's own community fits both the ballot and the organizer's stated advice, and it is the path DRBC's post to entrants points toward.