DRBC 2025 Cutie Pie Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

A dachshund photo vote that funds a Bucks County rescue

The DRBC 2025 Cutie Pie Calendar Contest is a public photo vote organized by Dachshund Rescue of Bucks County & NJ, a dachshund rescue with a postal address at 181 Gilbert Dr, Morrisville, PA 19067. The rescue's name spans two states, and the calendar contest is its signature way of letting ordinary dog owners join the fundraising.

The premise is simple and personal. An owner enters a photo of a doxie, a doxie mix or, as the ballot puts it, a doxie wanna-be, and that photo competes for one of the coveted spots in the 2025 DRBC Calendar. Votes come from the public, not from a judging panel, so the dogs that reach the calendar are the ones whose owners mobilized the most friends, family and followers.

GoGo Photo Contest hosts the ballot, a service built for charity photo fundraisers. The contest page carries the entry form, a View Entries gallery, a Contest Rules link, an About Us page for the rescue and a Sign In control, all running on Eastern Time.

Facts at a glance

The dated history of the Cutie Pie ballot

This is a long-running fundraiser, not a one-off. Confirmed editions of the Cutie Pie Calendar Contest run in 2014, then every year from 2016 through 2025, an eleven-year run with a single gap in 2015. The rescue's own description matches that history: its annual rescue calendar has evolved into one of its top annual fundraisers.

The latest confirmed run is the 2025 edition, and its voting window fell in September. The rescue's own outreach to entrants noted that starting September 11th left participants lots of time to accumulate votes, which pins the live cycle to that month. The ballot page now states that the contest has ended, and the page runs on Eastern Time.

The 2025 ballot also shows what a finished edition looks like. It thanks visitors for helping raise $15,400, and its leaderboard lists the top dogs by vote total, led by Farbi and Mozart at 2200 votes, with Max and Moritz at 1500 and Scoop at 1090. The fundraiser recurs each year, so a fresh edition follows the one that just closed.

Missing from the ballot page are the precise open and close dates for a cycle, the entry categories, and any per-supporter voting limit; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The Contest Rules link on the live page is where the rescue and the platform publish whatever rules apply to a given year.

How a supporter votes on the Cutie Pie ballot

Voting takes place on the GoGo Photo Contest ballot for the current edition. A supporter opens the page, browses the View Entries gallery, and picks a favorite dog to vote for. The page includes a Sign In control, so an account on the platform is part of the flow, and every timestamp on the contest, including the close, runs on Eastern Time.

Owners who want their own dog on the calendar use the Participate path instead. The entry is a photo of a doxie, a doxie mix or a doxie wanna-be, and the rescue's guidance to entrants is direct: post the entry on social media and ask your followers to vote. The rescue also reminds participants that the September window gives them lots of time to accumulate votes, so an early start is part of the intended strategy rather than a loophole.

The ballot makes the race visible. A public leaderboard ranks the top entries with their vote totals, so a supporter can see whether a favorite dog is comfortably in a calendar spot or needs another push. In the 2025 standings the top entries sat at 2200, 1500 and 1090 votes, a spread that shows how much outreach separates adjacent spots.

Because the 2025 contest has ended, none of these actions produce a vote today. They describe the mechanic a supporter follows when the next edition's ballot goes live on the same platform.

Where this ballot sits among Pennsylvania vote programs

Most public-vote programs covered for Pennsylvania are best-of ballots run by publishers: Best of Philly (Philadelphia Magazine), Best of the 'Burgh, Best of Berks (Berks County Living Magazine), Best of the Lehigh Valley (Lehigh Valley Style), the Bucks County & Chester County Readers' Choice and the Erie Reader Best of Erie. Those ballots rank businesses and venues under a media brand.

The Cutie Pie Calendar Contest is a different animal in the literal sense. Its nominees are dogs, its voters are pet owners, and its organizer is a rescue rather than a publication. The prize is not a title in a readers' issue but a photo slot in the 2025 DRBC Calendar, and the money raised, $15,400 in the 2025 edition, goes to the rescue's work rather than to a publisher's bottom line.

Geographically it is the most local of the group. The rescue operates from Morrisville in Bucks County, so its natural audience overlaps with the Bucks County & Chester County Readers' Choice market, yet the two programs answer to different organizers and run on different platforms, this one on GoGo Photo Contest.

What separates this ballot for a supporter is emotional reach. A doxie photo shared among dog lovers travels through friend groups a business nomination never enters, which is why the rescue's vote totals climb as high as they do.

Supporting an entry without crossing the rescue's line

The rescue tells entrants exactly what it wants: share the entry on social media and ask followers to vote, and start early, because the September window leaves lots of time to accumulate votes. That is the playbook this ballot rewards, and it costs nothing but effort. A personal appeal from a dog's owner outperforms any anonymous push, because the people voting know the dog or the person behind the photo.

The rescue has not published a statement about outside vote help, and the ballot page states no per-supporter limit, so the Contest Rules link on the live page is the authority an entrant should read before trying anything beyond organic sharing. Platform rules on GoGo Photo Contest govern what voting behavior is permitted in a given fundraiser.

Anyone weighing a purchased boost should first read how award votes are bought and understand that an organizer can always disqualify an entry it judges improper, a risk that lands on the dog's entry, not on anyone else. For a charity fundraiser, the safest investment is a bigger share request to a bigger friend group, repeated across the whole window.