Prizes

📸 How Winners Are Chosen & What to Expect

The top 14 vote-getters in the contest will win a professional photo session with Furever Photography for the 2026 Real House Pets of Colorado calendar!

Here’s how it breaks down:

🏆 1st Place – Wins the coveted cover spot on the 2026 calendar!
📅 2nd–13th Place – Featured as Pets of the Month, one for each calendar month.
📸 14th Place – Photographed as an alternate. This pet will be featured as a Pet of the Month only if one of the top 13 is unable to participate.

All winners will also receive:
🎁 A goody bag packed with treats, toys, and pet essentials
🖼️ The opportunity to purchase images and products from their session (optional)

Let the cuteness competition begin! 🐶🐱✨

BONUS:

• The 1st Grand Prize Winner will receive...
  
  • The coveted Cover Photo of the 2026 Colorado Pet Pantry Calendar
  • Two tickets to Raise the Woof! Party for a Cause on August 10th in Boulder
  • One Full Grooming from The Grooming Gallery to prepare for your photo shoot
  • Two Colorado Pet Pantry Wine Tumblers
  • The "Summer Fun Picnic Basket", including a travel water bottle, bowl, treat pouch, poop bags, grooming glove, mud buster paw washer, pet tag silencer, floating toys, treats, and a Colorado Pet Pantry bandana and koozies.
  The runner up (second place) pet will also receive:
  
  • Two tickets to Raise the Woof! Party for a Cause on August 10th in Boulder
  • A Full-Service Bath from Ken Caryl Pet Spa to prepare for your photo shoot
  • Two Colorado Pet Pantry Wine Tumblers
• If your pet is one of the 14 to be photographed for the calendar, you must be able to bring your pet to Furever  Photography at a pre-selected location in the Denver area between June 7th-June 15th, 2025, or Grand Junction on June 6th for a professional outdoor photo session. 
  

Weekly Prizes:
The first four weeks of the contest, we will award goodie to the pet with the most new votes that week. We will announce the winners every Wednesday.

Benchmark Prizes:
If we pass the $15,000 fundraising mark, each of the top 14 pets will receive a 16x20 Canvas or Metal Wall Print ($480 value) of their pet's calendar feature photo.

Runner up BONUS: Every pet entered with at least 100 votes at 8:00:00 PM (Mountain Time) on Saturday, May 31, 2025 will be entered to win a pair of tickets to our fundraiser Raise the Woof! Party for a Cause on August 10th.