San Diego House Rabbit Society Bunnyfest Photo Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

San Diego House Rabbit Society runs a rabbit photo pool, not a business ballot

San Diego House Rabbit Society organizes the Bunnyfest Photo Contest as its own fundraiser, using GoGo Photo Contest's hosted page at gogophotocontest.com/bunnyfest2018photocontest. That's worth stating plainly up front, because San Diego already hosts a very different kind of public vote under a similar "best of" label: Best of San Diego & Best Restaurants asks readers to weigh in on local businesses and dining spots citywide. Bunnyfest asks something narrower, which bunny's photo, submitted for free, earns the most votes.

Two editions are confirmed for Bunnyfest, one in 2018 and one in 2019. The confirmed 2018 cycle's own dated note has online voting ending September 20, 2018 at midnight Pacific time.

How many categories run, and how often one person may vote, is not stated; confirm on the live ballot each cycle before promising a supporter a rule the society hasn't printed.

One shelter's bunnies, described in their own words

The society's own invitation to enter doesn't read like a formal rulebook. It welcomes a bunny that's a champion napper, a bunny that photographs well on cue, and a bunny that makes a mess of its hay just as readily, all under one shared invitation to submit a photo. Nothing in that framing narrows the contest to a single type of rabbit or a single kind of moment worth photographing.

That open framing fits a shelter fundraiser built around participation rather than a strict competition format. Submitting a photo costs nothing, which lowers the bar for a supporter deciding whether a specific bunny's picture is worth entering in the first place.

An archived edition pointing toward a newer one

The 2018 page itself acknowledges it isn't the freshest cycle running, inviting a visitor looking for the current contest to find it elsewhere rather than treating 2018 as the latest word on Bunnyfest. Anyone landing here well after 2018 should treat the confirmed dates as history for that specific cycle, not as the current calendar.

That habit of pointing forward is worth noticing on its own. A shelter that keeps an older cycle's page online while flagging a newer one elsewhere is choosing not to erase its own history, even after a specific contest has closed. A supporter searching for Bunnyfest well after 2018 could easily land on this exact page first, so recognizing it as an older cycle rather than the live one matters before entering or voting on anything found here.

San Diego's other public votes look nothing like Bunnyfest

California runs enough different public-vote programs that confusing one for another happens easily. Best of San Diego & Best Restaurants covers San Diego's own business and dining scene, a citywide ballot spanning many separate categories. Best of Orange County and Best of Marin apply that same business-ballot format to their own counties. Best of Silicon Valley does the same for its tech-heavy region, Best of Central Valley Business covers business recognition across the Central Valley, and the North State Community's Choice Awards covers a separate stretch of the state entirely.

Sharing a city with Best of San Diego & Best Restaurants doesn't connect the two programs in any other way. A rabbit photo doing well in Bunnyfest carries no weight toward a restaurant or business making that citywide ballot, and the reverse holds too.

Helping a specific bunny's photo stand out

Since submitting a photo costs nothing and no vote limit is published, the more direct move is asking people who already know the bunny, an adopter, a foster, a regular volunteer at the shelter, to actually visit gogophotocontest.com/bunnyfest2018photocontest and vote before the confirmed midnight Pacific cutoff. Returning to ask again as that date nears tends to count for more than one early post.

San Diego House Rabbit Society runs this itself as a direct fundraiser, so padded or automated activity risks the entry on a program with only two confirmed cycles behind it. is buying votes legal is worth reading before any outside help gets involved, and fan-poll vote delivery covers the mechanics that apply to a shelter fundraiser shaped like this one.

A free entry fee changes the calculation slightly compared with a contest that charges to submit a photo. Since nothing stands between a supporter and entering a bunny's picture, the actual bottleneck sits entirely on the voting side, whether enough real people show up before the confirmed midnight Pacific cutoff arrives. That makes an early, well-organized push to real supporters more valuable here than it might be on a contest where entry itself already filters out casual participants.