Grand Prize
The photo with the most votes will be the cover for our "Who Rescued Who?" 2025 calendar. The grand prize winner will also get a page in the calendar.
The winner will also receive a voucher for a custom made beautiful pet portrait by Skipp's Pet Portraits!
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1st - 7th Place
Photos that place in the top SEVEN will be automatically used on calendar pages. The month assigned to each photo will be at the discretion of Hearts and Tails Staff and Volunteers.
8th - 20th Place
Of the photos with the highest votes from 8
th place to 20
th place,
FOUR will be chosen by Hearts and Tails Staff and Volunteers. The month assigned to each photo will be at the discretion of Hearts and Tails Staff and Volunteers.
1st Place Prize
The photo with the 2nd highest amount of votes will win both a TopPaw Orthopedic Dog Bed as well as a TopPaw Gel Leash! Multiple sizes and colors available and winner will have their choice from what is available at the time of prize receipt.
2nd Prize
The photo with the third-highest votes will win a TopPaw Gel Leash as well as an Embroidered Hearts and Tails Hat! Multiple colors available and winner will have their choice from what is available at the time of prize receipt.
We Want Your Dog to Look Fabulous in Our Calendar! The three primary reasons for disqualification of pictures are:
- Too low of a resolution or blurry out of focus photos
- The picture of the dog is too far away.
- The picture is too busy with other distracting items.
Only RESCUE dogs are eligible for contest participation.
NO negative training collars ie: Choke, Pinch or Electronic collars.
It's CRITICAL that photos be taken as a landscape orientation with the highest size and/or resolution setting available on your camera/phone otherwise it's not possible to enlarge them and still keep them looking good. You'll need at least a 6 Megapixel camera/phone photo to get enough resolution for the larger picture.
When you submit digital images, do NOT make any modifications to the original picture. We'll make any modifications, if necessary, if they are selected.
This IS a Dog Rescue Calendar, so submitted images should have a rescued dog in the photo. It's okay to have other critters in the photo with the dog, just be sure they don't have two legs, we want the focus of the photo on the dogs. (
For the purposes of this contest, we define a "Rescue" as a dog that was rescued from a Shelter, Rescue Organization, through Shelter and Rescue contact lists, or off the streets (stray). Dogs purchased (or obtained) from breeders, pet shops or individuals typically do not qualify unless they have gone through the "Rescue experience". Contact us for a ruling if you believe you have such an exception. Digital images are
NOT returnable and become the sole property of the Hearts and Tails Animal Alliance. By entering the contest, entrants grant Hearts and Tails permission to utilize their name, photo and story on its website, newsletters, blog and other publications used by the organization to further its mission.
If a winning image resolution is to low you will be asked to supply another photo. If a high resolution image is unavailable, the next top scoring photo may be selected to take its place in the calendar.
All submitted photos are subject to review by Hearts and Tails.
Inappropriate or offensive photos will be removed.
Submissions and Voting ends at midnight (11:59:59 PM Eastern Time) on Sunday, November 24, 2024.
All donations are tax-deductible, and non-refundable.
Hearts and Tails is a 501c3 non-profit organization.
Hearts and Tails Animal Alliance, Inc is a 501(c) (3) non profit organization based in New Hampshire. Our story is like many others… We are a group of animal lovers / long time volunteers, who met a black dog while vacationing in Puerto Rico, whose plight was so bleak, that we were compelled to take action. We've spent countless hours to understand the issues as well as the roadblocks, and have created relationships with amazing people who are of the same heart. Our goal is to find creative, innovative solutions to the issues faced by stray animals all over the world
The mission of Hearts and Tails Animal Alliance is to eliminate the euthanasia of adoptable animals by providing rescue and re-homing assistance where the size of a stray population has exceeded a local community's ability to control; providing post-disaster response assistance for displaced animals; to promote the prevention of cruelty to animals; and to foster the human-animal bond.