Amy, I think you have a great idea for a contest and I'm sure you will have tons of entries, I'm sure I will enter. I would like to make a point, I found in entering contests where you can vote once or vote every day it gets frustrating. Where you can only vote once, somehow people either bypass the computer someway ( my Grandson said he could do that for me, and I said no way) or have clubs vote and maybe all the dogs will have one vote on the first day and one dog will have 80. It is then impossible for the others to catch up.
Why not gather a group of impartial people that you know and have them vote for the pets. They don't know anybody and the will be using their own judgement. Just a thought.
Jackie