The Real House Pets of Colorado Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

A calendar built from many owners' entries, not one grand prize

Colorado Pet Pantry runs The Real House Pets of Colorado Calendar Contest through GoGo Photo Contest, hosted at gogophotocontest.com/coloradopetpantry. Rather than crowning a single winner, the confirmed page frames the contest around reserving a spot in the printed calendar itself, so more than one entrant's photo can end up in the finished product.

The confirmed 2026 voting period opened 8:00 AM Mountain on Wednesday, May 6, and closed 8:00 PM Mountain on Thursday, May 28. A separate entry period, Monday, May 18, through Monday, May 25, sat inside that same stretch. Winners then had until June 5th to claim their prize and schedule a photo session.

Nothing past June 5 is spelled out on the confirmed page. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle, since a future round's dates, its category structure, and any voting limit all sit outside what Colorado Pet Pantry has published so far.

The one number Colorado Pet Pantry does publish: 100 votes

Most of what a supporter might want to know about ranking, thresholds, or vote limits stays off the confirmed page. One number is the exception: any entry reaching at least 100 votes by 8:00 PM Mountain on May 28 earned its owner a bonus drawing for a pair of tickets. That is the single published vote-based incentive tied to this contest.

No stated cap sits alongside it. Colorado Pet Pantry's page names the 100-vote bonus without saying how many votes a single supporter may cast, or whether one household can be counted more than once. Treating the 100-vote drawing threshold as though it were also a voting limit would misstate what the confirmed page actually says; the two are separate facts, and only one of them is published.

Because that gap exists, a supporter's safest move is asking real people to vote directly at gogophotocontest.com/coloradopetpantry rather than repeating an assumed limit as though Colorado Pet Pantry had stated it. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle before telling anyone how often they may vote.

One rescue's own calendar, apart from Colorado's other pet and business ballots

Colorado runs several other public-vote programs that share a state with Colorado Pet Pantry's calendar contest but nothing about how they're judged. NoCo's Cutest Dog is another pet-photo contest, but run under its own separate entrants and timeline. Best of Denver, Top of the Town, Best of NOCO, Best of the Springs, and Best of Summit County all judge local businesses instead of pets.

Each of those five business ballots keeps its own tally and crowns its own winners, separate from Colorado Pet Pantry's calendar contest in every respect. A pet photo submitted at gogophotocontest.com/coloradopetpantry competes only within Colorado Pet Pantry's own entrant pool, and its outcome carries no weight toward any business ballot named above. Even NoCo's Cutest Dog, the one other pet-focused program on this list, tallies its own votes on its own separate page rather than feeding into Colorado Pet Pantry's calendar at all.

Why that separation matters for a supporter today

Searching a phrase like "Colorado pet calendar" can surface a different rescue's fundraiser, an outdated result from a past cycle, or one of Colorado's business-focused polls instead. Colorado Pet Pantry's own address remains the one place that reflects this specific calendar contest's actual entrants and dates. A supporter who bookmarks gogophotocontest.com/coloradopetpantry directly, rather than relying on a fresh search each time a new round opens, avoids landing on one of these unrelated programs by mistake.

Backing an entry between now and whatever comes next

Because Colorado Pet Pantry has published a 100-vote bonus threshold without a stated cap, a supporter's most defensible approach is real people voting more than once during an open window, rather than trusting a single push near the May 28 close to carry an entry past that mark. The 100-vote drawing rewards steady, genuine support more than a last-minute rush.

Is buying votes legal covers the legal picture worth understanding before spending real effort chasing a calendar spot, and pet photo contest vote support is built specifically around a calendar-format fundraiser like Colorado Pet Pantry's own program.

Building real momentum for an online ballot lays out tactics that do not depend on a category list or a per-supporter limit Colorado Pet Pantry has not published, useful groundwork for whichever round follows the confirmed 2026 cycle once a new one opens.