Humane Society of Hobart Calendar Contest: How Voting Works & How to Win

A Hobart shelter's own fundraiser, run through a local photographer

Bougie Pet Pawtography puts on the Humane Society of Hobart Calendar Contest as a fundraiser for the shelter, not as a side project of a newspaper or a city magazine. Every photo submitted and every vote cast for the 2026 calendar fed money straight back to the Humane Society of Hobart in Hobart, Indiana.

The entry gallery lives at gogophotocontest.com/hsh, part of a network built to run pet-photo fundraisers for shelters and rescues nationwide. The page confirms two rounds so far: one that closed in 2025, and a second now carrying the contest into 2026.

Nothing on the confirmed page names a separate publisher or media sponsor behind the contest. It is, as far as what's printed there goes, exactly the two names above running one calendar together.

The one voting window this page actually dates

The clearest fact on file is the 2025 voting round. It ran the entire month of April: opening at 12:00 AM Central time on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, and closing at 11:59:59 PM Central time on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. A full calendar month, start to finish, with an exact minute printed at both ends.

What the 2026 edition's own window looks like is a separate question the page does not answer with the same precision; confirm on the live ballot each cycle before assuming April repeats itself exactly.

Placement carries a real prize, not just a ribbon. "Winners in spots #2 through #12 will be featured for one month in the 2026 calendar, selecting their months in order of placement (e.g., second place chooses second, third place chooses third, etc.)." First place presumably lands somewhere the page treats differently, though that detail is not spelled out beyond the rule quoted above.

Submitted photos face one printed restriction: no copyrighted or professional photos. Beyond that line, the page stays silent on how the ballot sorts into categories, if it does at all, and silent on any limit to a single supporter's votes; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Two editions in, with no second promotion running alongside it

GoGo Photo Contest lists no other active promotion tied to this same market address. The Humane Society of Hobart Calendar Contest is the only program hosted there, with nothing else sharing its gallery or its supporter list.

That single-purpose setup separates it from Indiana's larger readers'-choice ballots. Best of Indiana and the CommunityVotes ballots running in Bloomington, Evansville and Fort Wayne each cover dozens of local businesses across a whole city or region under one publisher's masthead. Hobart's calendar contest covers one shelter, one photographer partner, and one set of pet photos.

A supporter searching for an Indiana pet photo contest risks landing on any of those unrelated ballots, or on South Bend's YourChoiceAwards ballot, none of which feed the Humane Society of Hobart. gogophotocontest.com/hsh is the only address that does.

What a real push looks like for a two-edition charity ballot

With only two editions behind it, the Humane Society of Hobart Calendar Contest has not built the kind of decade-long following bigger regional ballots carry. That makes real, repeated outreach more valuable here than a single link dropped once. Ask people who already support the shelter, and ask them again before the window closes rather than once near a deadline that is not even confirmed yet for 2026.

Every vote here funds the shelter directly, and every entry has to skip copyrighted or professional photography under the one rule the page prints. Padding a shelter's own fundraiser with irregular activity puts the entry itself at risk, and on a program this young, one flagged entry does more damage than the same mistake would on a ballot with a decade of history to absorb it. Before spending real money chasing a spot in the 2026 calendar, is buying votes legal draws the line a shelter fundraiser like this one has to stay on the right side of. For what a paid boost can honestly add to a photo-fundraiser format, buying votes online is the plainer read, and get more votes online lays out tactics a supporter can run without inventing a rule gogophotocontest.com/hsh never printed.