Bigfoot 99 Radio Best Pet in Wyoming Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

What is the Best Pet in Wyoming Contest, and who runs it?

Bigfoot 99 Radio, the Wyoming station registered as KTGA with studios at 1108 W. Bridge St. in Saratoga, put its news desk behind a statewide search for the state's top pet in May 2026. Its story, filed under Bigfoot99 News, explains that a Los Angeles-based promotional organization called the Pet Lovers' Choice Awards joined forces with USA TODAY on a national hunt for standout animals, and that the Wyoming round was asking for the best pets in the state. Celebrity animal trainer Nicole Ellis appears in the piece describing what the program asks of entrants.

Voting happens on bigfoot99.com itself, inside the Bigfoot99 News story devoted to the contest, so the promotion, the coverage and the tally all live under one roof rather than on an outside polling service.

A Pomeranian photographed courtesy Samantha Davi fronted the announcement, a reminder that the entrants are everyday household pets put forward by the people who love them.

Which dates shape the 2026 Wyoming pet ballot?

The announcement carried a Friday, May 8, 2026 dateline and went up under the byline bigfoot on May 11, 2026, under the headline Best Pet in Wyoming Contest Closes This Month. Two deadlines follow from that framing. Applicants had until May 20th to submit their pets for the statewide competition, and the vote itself closes sometime before June arrives, because the headline commits only to a close within the month. An exact finishing day and hour never appear in the text.

This is the first confirmed edition; whether it returns next year is not yet published; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Beyond the headline promise of a close inside May, the announcement lays out no class list, no division breakdown and no scoring detail; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How does a supporter vote in the Best Pet in Wyoming Contest?

To back an animal, a supporter opens the contest story on bigfoot99.com and votes for the pet they want on top. The allowance is bounded but renewable: one free vote can be cast each day, so a loyal backer returns daily rather than voting once and drifting away.

Supporters who want to push harder can spend, and the station's story is explicit about where that happens. Additional votes must be purchased from the Pet Lovers' Choice Awards website, the same Los Angeles organization running the national program, not through the radio station itself.

The outcome is settled purely by the public tally. Nothing in the coverage describes a judging panel or an editorial pick, so every daily ballot a supporter casts moves the number that decides the winner.

How does this ballot sit beside other Wyoming pet contests?

Pet ballots are plentiful in Wyoming this cycle, and the field around this one is worth knowing. The Cutest Pet 2026 ballot and the Wyoming Tribune Eagle Cutest Pet Contest both chase a similar audience of pet-loving voters, while costume and parade-themed ballots such as For The Cutest Costume, For Your Favorite Laramie Pet Parade and For Your Favorite Pet Parade Photo Contest carve the niche thinner still. Best of Jackson Hole rounds out the neighbourhood as a broad best-of program rather than a pet-only one.

This contest separates itself three ways. It is statewide rather than tied to one paper's readership, it plugs into a national awards structure with USA TODAY attached, and it names a paid channel for extra votes through the Pet Lovers' Choice Awards, something the neighbouring ballots do not advertise. Because the search spans the whole state, a supporter's daily free vote counts the same no matter which part of Wyoming they follow the contest from, unlike ballots anchored to one town's paper or parade.

What actually helps a pet collect votes here?

The strongest lever is rhythm. Because the free allowance renews every day, a campaign that reminds its people to return daily beats a campaign that fires once and fades, and everyone backing the same animal can put their own daily free vote to work.

Timing sharpens that rhythm. The headline commits only to a close sometime inside May, so a household that starts its daily routine when the story first posts banks far more free votes over the life of the ballot than one that discovers the contest in its final days.

Money buys more reach through the route the station itself names: the Pet Lovers' Choice Awards website sells supplementary votes, making it the sanctioned way to add volume. Whether outside voting help of other kinds is welcome is something the announcement leaves unsaid, so anyone considering it should weigh the program's terms first. For tactics that work on ballots shaped like this one, see the guide to earning more votes online.