Save One Soul Animal Rescue League Rescued Love - Tails of Happiness Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Rescued Love - Tails of Happiness Calendar Contest?

Save One Soul Animal Rescue League, which signs its materials SOSARL, is a dog rescue operation headquartered at 577 Kingstown Road, Wakefield, RI 02879. Its signature fundraiser, Rescued Love - Tails of Happiness, turns public affection for rescue dogs into calendar sales and direct donations. Owners upload photos of their pets, friends and strangers vote those entries up, and the winning images fill the following year's calendar.

The prizes at stake

Rewards follow the vote standings. The twelve pets holding the highest totals when voting ends are declared the league's 2027 winners, and each receives a private photography session plus a featured month in the 2027 calendar. Separately, the single highest vote getter takes the coveted cover position as the 2027 calendar cover pet.

The ballot address is https://www.gogophotocontest.com/saveonesoularl, and the same site doubles as a calendar shop: visitors can reserve a calendar day, order copies of the finished product, or arrange a business sponsorship of a month.

Which dates govern the current cycle, and how often does the contest repeat?

The league splits the cycle into two rounds. First comes the entry stage: submitted photos appeared online beginning at 12:00 AM Eastern on Friday, June 12, 2026, and that entry stretch continued until voting took over on June 22. Second is the public vote itself, which started at 12:00 AM Eastern on Monday, June 22, 2026 and ends at the 9:00 PM Eastern mark on Monday, July 6, 2026. Every ranking, including the cover decision, is settled from the standings at that closing moment.

As a program, Rescued Love - Tails of Happiness repeats every year: confirmed editions cover 2025 together with 2026, while the calendar now under assembly carries a 2027 date, which means the current cycle feeds next year's product. One gap worth flagging: the ballot divides entries into no named categories and sets out no voter eligibility terms; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does someone actually vote in the SOSARL calendar fundraiser?

Casting a free vote takes three short moves on the Wakefield rescue's own site: load the contest home, switch over to the entries view, then press the vote action sitting on one entrant's photo. Nothing about the flow requires special software, and the ballot stays reachable throughout the June-to-July window.

Money enters only where a supporter wants it to. The league sells votes outright: at any time during the voting period, votes cost $1 each and are sold in increments of $5, and a buyer may spread a purchase across one dog or several entrants of their choosing. That built-in purchase channel doubles as a fundraiser, since every dollar flows to the rescue. Whether an account sign-in is required before voting, and whether any ceiling applies to unpaid voting, the ballot does not spell out.

For anyone weighing a bigger push behind one particular pup, the practical levers are the ones above: direct votes, purchased votes through the league, and the timing of both relative to the July 6 close.

How does this dog calendar vote differ from other Rhode Island ballots?

Rhode Island's public-vote scene leans heavily on consumer rankings. Six sibling programs cover the state: Best of Rhode Island, the 2025 DRINK AWARDS, the Audience Award, the Motif Bartender Awards, Best of Newport County from Newport Life Magazine, and Best of RI from Rhode Island Monthly. All six ask readers to rate businesses, venues and services.

The SOSARL fundraiser breaks that mold. Its ballot ranks dogs rather than restaurants or bars, its proceeds fund rescue operations instead of a publisher's reader honors, and its prize is a photograph on a calendar rather than a title in a magazine. A voter choosing between Best of Rhode Island, Best of RI and this calendar contest is really choosing between backing local commerce and backing animal welfare, two very different causes that happen to share a public-vote format.

That difference changes strategy too. Business rankings reward broad community reach, while a pet calendar rewards an owner's personal network, and a dog with a moving rescue story can outrun a far better-known commercial nominee.

What lifts a dog's total before the vote closes?

A dog's total climbs through three realistic moves. First, share the ballot link everywhere the owner already has an audience, because every vote starts with someone seeing the entry. Second, tell the adoption story; this contest celebrates rescued animals, so a photo paired with the journey from shelter to sofa gives people a reason to come back and vote again. Third, mind the clock: reminders aimed at the final weekend matter far more than early, scattered pushes.

The league's own purchase option covers supporters who prefer to contribute financially, and paid help of the outside kind is a separate decision, covered in how to get more votes online. Whichever route a campaign takes, the printed rules of this fundraiser, not outside assumptions, set its boundaries.