Great Pyrenees Rescue Society Floof of the Month Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Great Pyrenees Rescue Society Floof of the Month Calendar Contest?

The Great Pyrenees Rescue Society stages the Floof of the Month Calendar Contest as a photo fundraiser hosted by GoGo Photo Contest. The society lists a Spring, TX 77388 mailing address and the domain greatpyreneesrescuesociety.org, and its ballot lives under the greatpyreneesrescuesociety path on gogophotocontest.com. The subject matter is exactly what the title promises: photographs of exceptionally fluffy Great Pyrenees dogs, which the contest calls floofs, competing for positions on the society's printed calendar.

Supporters browse the entered field through the View Entries gallery and favor the floofs they love. When a round closes, the standings convert directly into calendar placement. The entrant holding the most votes claims the 1st prize slot on the cover, and the next 12 finishers take the floof of the month placements inside.

Quick facts

Prize structure

When has floof of the month voting run, and which dates are settled?

Two summers are on file for this ballot, 2025 and 2026. The earlier round opened at noon Central Time on Sunday, June 1, 2025 and shut at noon on Friday, August 15, 2025. The following summer's round shifted later: voting began at noon Central Time on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 and ended at noon on Friday, August 14, 2026. That 2026 ballot carried the title Great Pyrenees Rescue Society 2027 Floof of the Month Calendar Contest, tying its results to the 2027 printed edition.

Both windows have finished, and the 2026 pages display a "Contest has ended" notice. What the ballot leaves off its public face matters as much as what it prints. No category breakdown for the photo field accompanies the entries, nothing published states how many times one backer may weigh in during a window, and no eligibility wording shows beside the entrants; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Rounds on the calendar

How does a supporter vote on the floof ballot?

Mechanically this is a photo-contest page served by GoGo Photo Contest. Its menu offers five destinations: Participate, View Entries, Rules, About Us and Sign In. A supporter who wants to sway the standings enters through View Entries, moves along the gallery of photographed floofs, and marks a preference on the entrant's own page. A supporter who wants to put a dog into the running starts at Participate instead, where the photo submission happens.

Every hour printed on the ballot is given in Central Time, consistent with the society's Texas base. Rounds begin and end at noon, so the decisive final hours fall at midday rather than late night. A Sign In link occupies the menu, although the public pages stop short of explaining whether casting a preference requires an account of any kind.

Watching the standings

The gallery keeps a follower able to track a particular floof's progress from the opening bell through the last afternoon. Because the finishing order maps straight onto the cover and the monthly slots, every counted preference moves a real printed outcome, which is why the noon Central close deserves a reminder on any backer's calendar.

How does the floof fundraiser compare with Texas best-of ballots?

Texas hosts a crowded bench of public-vote programs, and this page's nearest neighbors are the state's large readers polls: Best of Houston, the Best of Austin Readers Poll, Best of Dallas Readers' Choice, Best of San Antonio, Best of El Paso and Fort Worth Magazine's Best of Fort Worth. Those contests sort city commerce into many categories and recruit nominees from local businesses and services.

The floof contest rests on a narrower premise. It has a lone organizer, a lone subject and a reward that is a printed calendar rather than a citywide accolade. Its voters arrive as dog admirers rather than as customers rating a plumber or a taco stand, and its summer rhythm stands apart from the fall and winter cycles the city polls tend to favor.

What the formats share is the counting principle: whichever entrant gathers the most support by the deadline claims the top slot. A person comfortable working a readers poll can work this ballot without learning new machinery, and vice versa, since both reduce to visiting a page and marking a preference before the posted cutoff.

How can a floof's backers grow its vote count?

A photo contest rewards organized affection more than anything elaborate. Backers of a floof do best when they treat the summer window as a campaign: pass along the ballot's direct address to fellow Pyrenees admirers, set reminders ahead of the noon Central close, and read the Rules tab so nobody's plan bumps into the society's own terms. Because the gap between the cover and the monthly slots is settled purely by counted preferences, widening the circle of people who actually visit the ballot is the lever that moves standings.

Backers weighing whether purchased support has a place in this fundraiser can read the questions below before choosing either direction. For a fuller playbook on building genuine momentum across public ballots, the tactics live at this site's votes guide.