How To Dress Like Cat In The Hat
Bella Scala wore a handmade teeny-weeny atom chicken polka dot bikini apparel with a stereo on her collar that played the song.
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Sofia Weiner won first-place in the Best Aboriginal Apparel class for her assuming of a blah dog.
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Luna Aceste dressed up as a charlatan for the sixth anniversary ‘Howl-O-Ween’ party.
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By Melissa Koenig
Linda Troy corrective her face, wore a affectation and a Cat in the Hat apparel for the sixth anniversary Howl-O-Ween accident at the Valley Stream Dog Esplanade on Oct. 28.
“I appear out actuality every year and dress them up,” Troy said about her dogs Mimi and Sasha, who were dressed as ‘Thing 1’ and ‘Thing 2’. “We go with themes. Everybody does it with their kids. I accompany my puppies.”
["582"]But Mimi and Sasha were not the alone dogs in apparel that day. Eleven added dogs strutted about the Valley Stream Dog Esplanade parking lot cutting apparel alignment from a butterfly to a werewolf for a adventitious to win a $25 Pet Supply allowance card, a $5 Red Mango allowance agenda and a medal.
“Leo won it aftermost year, and we’re activity for it again,” Regina VanHandswyk, a Levittown resident, said of her dog who was dressed as the Bachelor with a rose accessory in his suit. “How could you not adulation the Bachelor? Everybody wants the Bachelor.”
Leo’s antagonism included Niko and Nova Wright, who were dressed as Dracula and a butterfly, respectively. Their owners, Courtney and Shannon, acquainted the apparel fit their dogs’ personality. “He’s like a terror, so it was aloof like this Dracula apparel fit him, and she’s as appealing as a butterfly,” Courtney said.
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For the two North Valley Stream women, it was their aboriginal time at the dog park. “We’ve had them for beneath than a year, so it’s their aboriginal time advancing to the dog esplanade and the Halloween event,” Courtney said. “We aloof capital to dress them up and see how it was.”
The accident offered 18 raffle baskets, including wine and dog treats, and sign-ups for a Valley Stream groomer. All of the gain aloft from the raffles and from the $10 apparel challenge access fee benefitted the Valley Stream Dog Park. “We put it on for the dogs, so we can accumulate the dog esplanade activity and add altered things,” said John Peritore, who ran the accident as a affiliate of the Friends of Valley Stream Dogs booster group.
According to Ambassador Ed Fare, the Friends of Valley Stream Dogs was founded about six years ago back the dog esplanade opened. Their mission is to advance and abutment the dog park. “This is a advance accumulation who’s vested in our community. What added could a ambassador and an adopted official ask for?” he asked at the event.
The ambassador said he went to the fundraiser because he capital to abutment the Friends of Valley Stream Dogs “This is a lot for them to do,” he said.
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As the accident coordinator, Peritore chose three guests to be board for the apparel contest. He, as able-bodied as added associates of the booster group, again handed out medals and certificates to the winners and ran the raffle contest.
In the end, Mimi and Sasha won for best-duo Costume, Sofia Wiener won for the best aboriginal apparel with her blah dog outfit, and Bella Scala won funniest apparel for her handmade “teeny-weeny atom chicken bespatter bikini” outfit.
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