P.S. I Love You Pet Calendar Photo Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the P.S. I Love You Pet Calendar Photo Contest?

The Potter League for Animals, an animal welfare organization headquartered at 87 Oliphant Lane in Middletown, Rhode Island, runs the P.S. I Love You Pet Calendar Photo Contest as its signature yearly pet fundraiser. The idea behind the name is affectionate: the best tribute to a beloved dog, cat or other companion is putting its face in front of the whole community and letting supporters vote it toward a calendar month. Owners enter a photo of their pet, then spend the open window encouraging friends, family and fellow Rhode Island animal lovers to back the entry.

The 2026 cycle carries the banner of the 10th Annual Pet Calendar Photo Contest. Voting happens on the GoGo Photo Contest platform, whose potterleague ballot at gogophotocontest.com/potterleague carries navigation to View Entries, Prizes, Contest Rules and About Us pages. The reward is tangible: the top 12 vote-getters are featured as Pet of the Month models in the printed calendar, which mails to participants in Fall 2026, and the pets leading at the close are billed into the 2027 calendar edition.

Program basics

When did the 2026 pet calendar vote open and close?

The 2026 edition folded entry and voting into a single stretch with no separate nomination round. The entry and voting period ran from February 1 at 8:00 a.m. through March 2 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and the ballot states plainly that voting opens when the first photo entry is submitted. Early entrants hand their pets the longest runway, while a photo uploaded in late February campaigns for barely a week.

The close was a hard cutoff. Voting ended at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, March 2, 2026, and once the deadline passed the ballot flipped to a contest-has-ended notice until the next cycle. Confirmed editions of the program ran in 2021, 2024 and 2026, and the Potter League brands the event as yearly, which is why the 2026 ballot carried the 10th Annual banner.

Planners should also note what the ballot keeps off its pages: the Potter League publishes no category lineup, no ceiling on repeat voting and no statement of who may enter; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

2026 timeline

How do you cast a vote in the P.S. I Love You contest?

Everything runs through the GoGo Photo Contest ballot built for the Potter League. While the window is open, a supporter goes to gogophotocontest.com/potterleague, selects View Entries in the site navigation, and browses the gallery of submitted pets. Opening an entry brings up its photo, and the vote control on that page logs the choice. A leaderboard on the ballot tracks how every pet stands against the rest of the field, which lets backers see whether a push is working.

Navigation also carries a Sign In link alongside dedicated Prizes, Rules and Frequently Asked Questions pages, and the ballot renders like any other contest website on a desktop or a phone. Nothing on the ballot page states that signing up comes before voting, though entrants managing their photos will want the Sign In area.

Backers who want to widen their reach past their own circles can borrow the broader playbook in this guide to earning more votes online; the same distribution principles drive photo ballots of every size.

Where does this pet vote fit among Rhode Island contests?

Rhode Island pet owners have several public ballots competing for their attention. The Westerly Sun Cutest Pets Contest is the newspaper's own pet vote, and a statewide Cutest Pets Contest ran as a straight popularity ballot. The Real Housepets of Rhode Island Pet Calendar Contest is another calendar-format program, listed on this site at two separate routes.

Outside the pet lane, the market's best-of ballots include Best of Rhode Island and the DRINK AWARDS, which gather public votes across local favorites rather than pet portraits.

What separates the Potter League ballot from every neighbor is who runs it and what the winner receives. An animal shelter organizes the contest around its own community, the prize is a physical printed calendar with the leading pets pictured month by month, and the voting infrastructure is GoGo Photo Contest rather than a publisher's polling tool.

How can a pet's backers climb the leaderboard?

A strong finish on this ballot comes down to distribution. Each pet occupies its own place in the entry gallery, so the practical move is handing backers the direct route: share the entry with a personal note, post it wherever Rhode Island pet owners already gather, and ask everyone who votes to pass it along. With the close landing on the afternoon of March 2, reminders in the final stretch of the window matter far more than one early blast.

Anyone weighing paid support should read the Contest Rules tab before spending anything, then review how purchased votes work on the main vote-buying page. Whichever route a backer takes, the target stays fixed: lift one pet into a Pet of the Month seat before the models lock.