Rules

Submit your pet's photo for FREE and vote until Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 7 PM. Votes are $1 and you must purchase a minimum of 5 votes at a time.

Photos may contain more than one pet, but no humans please!

Contest opportunity is exclusive to house pets only (dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, mice, hamsters, guinea pigs, ferrets, etc.).

Entries must be submitted by the owner of the pet, or with permission of the owner. If the photo was taken by someone other than the owner, permission must be granted from the person who owns the photo. It is the responsibility of the person submitting the photo to make sure that permissions are in place.

To enter the contest you must register using your personal email address and a password of your choice.

Each $1 donation counts as a vote for that photo and donations are non-refundable.

This year we will once again have a vote bank! You will not have to use your credit card each time you vote. Remember that you can use the votes in your bank to vote – any votes left in the bank will go to the shelter.

MC/VISA/Discover are accepted via a secure server. If you would rather pay by check, please contact the contest administrator at mwhscontest@gmail.com for mailing instructions, or earmark the check for the Calendar Contest and drop it off at the shelter during regular adoption hours. Checks must be received on or prior to Thursday, September 19, 2019.

All entries are subject to review, editing, and removal by the MetroWest Humane Society.

To ensure that we are able to use your photo for publication, please make sure that you submit a digital photo only with a file size of 2 MB or higher. (Regular photos developed from film and scanned generally will not result in a high enough quality to print and include in the calendar).

File sizes are automatically reduced when submitted to the live voting site, so at the end of the contest, the winning entries must email the original photo submitted to mwhscontest@gmail.com within 7 days of the contest's end for it to be able to be included in the calendar.

If you are one of the top 12 winners, and the photo you submitted is of poor quality (it will not reproduce well in the calendar) and cannot be sufficiently improved for publication, we will alert you and give you an opportunity to send in a replacement photo of the same pet(s).

When registering/buying votes you agree to receive emails from the MetroWest Humane Society for contest publicity purposes.

The MetroWest Humane Society is a 501(c)(3) organization. Donations are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.

For questions please e-mail mwhscontest@gmail.com.

*MWHS takes no responsibility for typographical errors in this contest and will fix errors as needed/alerted without notification to registrants.