Pooch Playoffs 2026
VOTING INSTRUCTIONS
Welcome to Pooch Playoffs!!
Below you will find the voting application. Click on the image and vote for EVERY MATCH-UP! At the end you will have to enter your email address so the system counts your vote. (Don't worry! We will not be saving your email address to spam you later!)
One vote, per email, per day!
Voting opens at noon and goes until midnight the following day. You will have two days per bracket to vote.
Spread the word and have fun!! Remember this is about fun and about helping out Clinton County IL Humane Society by bringing awareness to their efforts!
Good luck to our 2026 competitors!
Meet the 2026 Competitors!
Tap the pictures to see all 16 contestants.
About the Charity
Clinton County IL Humane Society
The Clinton County IL Humane Society has been serving Clinton County for years!
This year 100% of the Pooch Playoff's entry fee will be donated to this great organization!
Learn more about pets available for adoption click here:
Learn more about how you can help here:
Don't have a pet to compete in Pooch and would like to donate to this great pet charity? Click here:
Meet our 2025 Pooch Playoff Champion!
Congratulations DEWEY! Our 2025 Pooch Playoffs Champion!
Clinton County's ULTI-MUTT Cutie!
Pooch Playoffs is a super fun way to support a local animal centered charity as well as find out if you have the ULTI-MUTT cutie!
Each session is $99, 100% of which is being donated to the Clinton County IL Humane Society. Contestants receive a complimentary professional pet portrait session as well as a custom Pooch Playoffs collar and 5x7 keepsake metal print. Sessions will be scheduled March 1 - 21.
After all of the contenders are photographed, they are entered into a local bracket style competition. The first round of Voting begins March 22nd at NOON and the champion is announced APRIL 2nd! The winner will then be entered into the INTERNATIONAL POOCH PLAYOFFS COMPETITION!!
We run this event every year during the March Madness basketball season. If you know a pet or animal centered charity that you think would be an excellent beneficiary of this competition, contact us!
In Memory
Last year we lost one of our Pooch Playoff's competitors. Red was the beloved companion of Jim & Linda. We know he is in heaven happily treeing raccoons all day! Rest easy sweet boy!