| shawnbollig@hotmail.comHave Paws Will Travel | Guide
Dog Puppy Raising Club |
Arapahoe County, Colorado |
 If you have a better photo of costume or party than the one(s) you see here, please email it to andrea@hpwtdogmom.org If you had to miss the party because of the weather, please email us a photo of your dog in costume, which category, and a brief description & we'll include it here for everyone to enjoy! |
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 Push on past the witch and come on in! |
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 Have some corn bread, chili, salad & dessert! |
 Don't forget something to drink. |
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 Find a place to sit. |
 Enjoy good company... |
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 and good dogs... |
 Looks like the chili & cheese went down a treat. |
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 Hey! Dogs aren't allowed to eat people food! |
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 Let's see...what category shall we enter? |
 Folks, it's time to wrap up dinner and start getting those dogs dressed up for the costume contest! |
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 Makeup is on... |
 Costumes are looking good....
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Now for
a visit to the professional photographers! |
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 Russell is nearly ready! |
 The line forms to the right |
 Professional results! (Gina & Wonder) |
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 Groups get lined up... |
 The paparazzi is ready! (or is that PUP-arazzi?) |
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CONTEST! We won't tell who the grand prize winner is until the very end. Which costume would you nominate? |
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 Petunia as a petunia, gets a little boost from raiser Collette.  |
 Josie as "Josie and the Pussy Cats"  The younger members of the audience don't remember the cartoon girl band, so Lizz has to explain Josie's puny costume.  |
 Tudor as a Tutor.  Cute hats, but we'll never believe Eli & Gillian are really dunces! |
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 Blaze as a fireman. |
 Nasa and Sam are straight out of the space agency. 3...2...1...LIFT OFF! |
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 With a name like Chiquita, what other costume is possible except a banana? |
 Astor as her namesake flower. |
 Wrigley as a piece of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum. |
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 Ellis and Emily cast as spell as Harry Potter & Professor McGonigal.  |
 Steve dressed Mars as Curious
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 Cinderella made it to the ball!
That's Nuzzel and Renata.
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 Jude as the caped crusader...Batman! |
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 Gina and Wonder are cute-as-a-bug Lady Bugs.  |
 Parka the Princess is "Dancing with the Stars" or at least dancing with her partner, Richard.  |
 FrisBEE is a "frizzy bee;" raiser Bonnie makes a wonderful bee keeper.  |
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 Sloan made a handsome Harry Potter....Christina makes a very pretty Hermine! |
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 It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! Jasper as the Great Pumpkin, Kingston as Linus, Miranda as Snoopy the WWI Flying Ace and Charlie Brown himself in his tricks-or-treats costume.  |
 Lucerne takes a break from guiding Leonard to come as a spider.  |
 Jakarta looks dashing as a devil all in velvet.  |
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 Roann the working guide came as a tiger. |
 Jonas buzzes over the check out the "puparazzi" in his bee costume. |
 Herbert is tasty as a hot dog. |
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  Little Brannon, usually an angel, can be a little devilish, too! Check out that tail! |
 Retired guide Rodeo is bad-to-the-bone in his skeleton costume. |
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 Argos the party animal and Beverly  |
 Cole the homecoming queen & DruAnne--complete with corsage!  |
 Fandango is a chick magnet--literally!  |
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And the Grand Prize winner is.... NASA!  |
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 Congratulations, Sam, on a truly out of this world costume! |
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 1st Prizes |
 2nd Prizes |
 3rd Prizes |
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 Danny Henderson - Party Chairman par excellence! |
 Chris Ford - Costume Contest MC, who kept things moving along with great good humor. |
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 Animal ER Judges, Sandy Lutheran and Dr. Lewis |
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Kisses: To Shaylen of Arapahoe County 4-H for clearing the schedule so we could have the room for 3 full days for set up and clean up, and for arranging for the trustees to set up tables and stage for us. To our set up crew: Danny, Carmen, Frank & Cheryl, Jeanne, Andrea, Chris & Janet. (Apologies to anyone not listed) To everyone who stayed to help clean up. To Russell & Jane Smoak who donated their time, equipment & skills so we could all have professional photographs of our costumes, To Chris, our MC, To our Judges from the Animal E.R. To everyone who donated prizes including Dogs with Vision puppy club, Boulder puppy club, Have Paws Will Travel, Sidekicks for Sight, Liberty on Leashes and Lizz Landert, To everyone who brought such yummy food, and most of all, to EVERYONE who dressed up their puppy and/or themselves to put on such a wonderful show! |
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 You only THINK I'm going up on that stage, mom! |
 You know it's a cute costume when even the judges say "awwwwwww...." |
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  They're all taking pictures of me... How embarrassing! |
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 Smile for the camera, Frisbee! |
 It's okay to come out from under the sheet now, Charlie Brown! |
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 You gonna eat that? Can I have it? |
 I can't believe you want me to wear a crown.... |
 A good shake should take care of it! |
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 Do you see what they're doing to me!? |
 What are YOU looking at? Never seen a dog in a monkey suit before? |
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 Oh, well, it all comes out right in the end. |
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