| Have Paws Will Travel
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Guide
Dog Puppy Raising Club |
Arapahoe
County, Colorado |
HALLOWEEN 2004 |
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 Registration table. Sign up for your costume category! |
 Yum! Chili Dinner |
 Halloween Sweets |
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Enjoying the meal and the the company of friends. |
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 Bombay and LeKathryn pose for a photo in one of two "sets" provided for costumed portraits. |
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some fabulous prized donated this year! Winners in each category chose
from an array of goodies! |
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 Our M.C. was Jack McPartland |
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 Our two Judges were Julie Landon & Megan Ellis, from the Animal E.R. blood donor program. |
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COSTUMES! |
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 Alexi took his theme straight from Peter Pan: A Lost Boy, Wendy, and Captain Hook. 3rd place, Movie Character Category. |
 Arlin portrayed Biker Lance Armstrong 2nd place, Famous Person Category |
 Bayla the lion. 3rd place, Best Halloween Category |
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 Joel buzzed in as a bee |
 Baby bee Pinnacle brought along her favorite beekeeper |
 Elijah in feather finery as Big Bird 1st place, Movie Character Category |
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 Leanne, the black widow |
 Bombay & LeKathryn portrayed elegant ladies from East India 2nd Place, Best Namesake Category |
 Alya and Coral as a bride & groom look to be in a hurry to get to the chapel |
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 Franzi is lookin' fine as a Chipendale's Dancer. 3rd place, Most Original Category |
 This beautiful Golden is but one of Claire's Three Westeraires |
  3rd place, Best Team Category |
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 Quintera took inspiration from her Dalmatian friend for her costume! She portrayed Perdita, the inside-out Dalmatian from 101 Dalmatians. |
 Clint- Duck hound, or duck? 1st Place: Best "Halloween" Category |
 What else would Cougar come as? A cougar, of course! |
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 Elton as Elton John 1st Place, Famous People category |
 Emmett does homage to the great clown, Emmett Kelly 1st Place, Namesake category |
 Cruiser came as a fire fighter |
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 Gidget is a surfer from the movie "Gidget Goes to Hawaii" |
 Candy--it's what Halloween is all about! Kelsey, the Hershey's Kiss, Marty, the M&M, and Wonder, the roll of Lifesavers. 1st Place, Best Team |
 Chantilly the Pumpkin hound |
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 Doesn't Cubby make a perfect ladybug? |
 Dalton looks angelic in his costume. |
 Rigo came to the party in style as a groom! |
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 Hula girl, Danner 2nd Place, Best Halloween Category |
 Lodge is a pony. Every cowgirl needs one, right? |
 Neo as a "Neo-pet" |
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 Nimoy, a blood donor for the Animal E.R., dressed for his career change job 2nd place, Most Original Category |
 Nana a Grandmother 3rd place, Best Namesake |
 Hessy, as "Hessina the Russian Ballerina" |
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 Yo, ho, ho! Say pirates Ginko & Friend. 2nd place, Best Team Category. |
 Pumpkin patch puppies Ogden, Karleen and Zimmer. |
 Beta provided the party's only Halloween witch. |
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 Working Guide Rodeo finds himself "Behind the Eight Ball" with his partner, Leonard. 1st Place, Most Original Category. |
 Shreck, as portrayed by Lazlo 2nd place, Movie Character Category. |
 It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Super Jasper! |
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  Astaire and Taran "Walk on the Wild Side"--complete with fishnet stockings! |
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 The 1st place winners from each category gather for the judging for best costume overall. The winner received a customized photo mouse pad of their pup in costume! |
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THE WINNER OF BEST COSTUME FOR 2004 IS... BIG BIRD! Congratulations, Elijah! |
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| Photos missing for: Zoom
as "Wooly Bully", Garson as a "Black Angel". |
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FANGS and HAIRY HUGS... ...to all the Halloween howlers who made our annual chili dinner and costume contest a very fun and festive gathering!!!. We had at least 99 people and 43 dogs in attendance. Owooo! HPWT's Wendy Kalkus designed the werewolf invitation. Randi Peet put together the haunted house stage set. Danny Henderson brought straw for the photo corner and put up the rest of the decorations. Thanks ladies for your extra trip and all your design work! The McPartlands of Dogs with Vision organized and announced the costume contest in true wolfy style. The Wristons and Liberty on Leashes ran a very smooth and thorough registration table. The nametags were very festive. Thank you!!! ALL CLUBS brought wonderful food items. We were so glad to have such a delicious selection this year. Each club also donated a nice variety of prizes. Thank you for collecting those throughout the year in anticipation of this doggie costume extravaganza!! Many Many thanks to Carmen Moyer ( my trusty room and trustee organizer), Dot Dill, Danny Henderson and the Smoak Family for staying after to clean up!! Lisa Taylor from 4H ,our new guide dog representative, was the guest of honor. Thank you for coming to be with us! Andrea Loughry, you're great to take lots of pictures and put together our webpage. We love it!! AND... a huge howl to all of you who put together those awesome costumes. That is what makes this party work. You are to be commended. A pooch smooch to you! Until next year...remember the moooon. Your HPWT coordinators Pam and Wendy Kalkus & "Neo" And
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all thank you, Pam & Wendy, for putting it all together!
Extra Sharp
Fangs and Shaggy-Hairy Hugs for everything you did making the 2004 HPWT
Halloween Party the best one EVER!
In addition to coordinating everything, Pam bought & donated the haunted house stage decoration, and provided all the paperware for the party! |
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