Chautauqua County Humane Society Hot Dogs Cool Cats Photo Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

The real headline: six confirmed editions, then nothing published after 2019

Chautauqua County Humane Society runs the Hot Dogs Cool Cats Photo Contest as its own pet-photo fundraiser, hosted by GoGo Photo Contest at gogophotocontest.com/chautauquacountyhumanesociety-2016. Six edition years back this contest on their own dated addresses: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. The confirmed page here is the 2016 round's own address, and that page already marks itself finished, closing its voting window January 31 at 9:59:59 PM.

Nothing published on that page names a later round, and as of September 2026 none has surfaced since. A supporter weighing whether to check back is weighing a shelter that ran an annual online fundraiser across six confirmed years, not a contest confirmed active today.

Treat that last row, and the gap after 2019, the same way: honestly. Confirm on the live ballot each cycle, because a long stretch without a published update is a real gap, not a rounding error.

Where this Jamestown fundraiser sits next to New York's citywide 'best of' polls

A search for a New York pet contest can just as easily surface a citywide business ballot instead of Chautauqua County Humane Society's own playing-cards-themed fundraiser. None of the ballots below judge pets, and none of them share a publisher, a judging panel, or a set of winners with the Hot Dogs Cool Cats Photo Contest.

A win, or even an entry, on any one of those business ballots carries no weight toward Chautauqua County Humane Society's own results, and the reverse holds too. A Jamestown pet owner chasing this shelter's own title is running a push that answers only to gogophotocontest.com/chautauquacountyhumanesociety-2016, whatever else a search engine happens to surface alongside it.

A playing-cards prize, a five-vote order minimum, and what the page leaves open

Chautauqua County Humane Society leaned into a playing-cards theme for this contest's own preview line: "Is your pooch the Ace of Spades, your kitty the Queen of Hearts, or perhaps your ferret the joker in the pack? Now is your chance to ante up and show us your fur babies' best poker face!" That line alone confirms entries reach beyond dogs and cats: a ferret gets its own mention as a possible entrant.

The prize follows the same theme. The confirmed page names the winner's reward as the title "CCHS 2016 Pet of the Year," plus having that pet's name printed among the deck's kings, queens, jacks, or aces, whichever the winner picks, inside a printed deck of 54 cards. The shelter's own preview line had separately floated a ferret as "the joker in the pack," fitting neatly with the jokers that round out a deck that size.

Casting support costs more than a single click here: the confirmed page sets a minimum of five votes for every order placed, pointing toward paid vote packages rather than a single free vote each day. No price for those five votes appears on the confirmed page, so a supporter should read that figure off gogophotocontest.com/chautauquacountyhumanesociety-2016 directly rather than guessing. Neither the category list nor a voting ceiling is printed there; confirm on the live ballot each cycle, along with any eligibility rule and whatever comes after this contest's own dated addresses run out.

Supporting a Chautauqua County fundraiser that may or may not run again

Given how long the confirmed page has gone without naming a fresh round, the first honest move for a Jamestown supporter is checking gogophotocontest.com/chautauquacountyhumanesociety-2016 directly, rather than repeating the 2016 round's January 31 closing time to anyone as though it still applies.

If a live round does turn up, asking real neighbors, family, and other Chautauqua County pet owners to place more than one order across whatever window opens does far more for a small shelter than a single visit near a closing time. Because no vote cap, no eligibility rule, and no price per vote survive on the confirmed page, treating any of those as settled would mislead the very supporters this shelter depends on.

Is buying votes legal lays out where a public-vote fundraiser like this one stands, whether it is currently running or not, and building real momentum for an online ballot covers approaches that never assume a rule the shelter itself has not printed.

A long gap between dated rounds is not automatically bad news for a county humane society. Staff and volunteers keeping animals fed and adopted are also the people who would need to relaunch a playing-cards photo pool, and a fundraiser can pause for a stretch without the shelter itself closing. The fair reading for anyone in Jamestown, or anywhere else in Chautauqua County, is that gogophotocontest.com/chautauquacountyhumanesociety-2016 is the only page that can settle whether the Hot Dogs Cool Cats Photo Contest has actually returned.