Need Pet Contest Ideas

[BeachyKeen]

I'm working on our first Halloween Pet Costume Contest, and I need ideas for judging categories. I have Best Overall Costume, Scariest Costume...and that's all I can think of! Maybe large, medium and small dog categories but I need more! This is going to be a big event.

Any ideas in general to make this a success would be most appreciated!

[BrendaM]

At Pugfest the costume contest is HUGE - and cut throat! I highly recommend doing two catagories, one store bought and one homemade. It's so hard when someone puts hours and hours into a homemade costume and a dog wins that someone just bought a cute costume off of the rack and put it on their dog.

What about owner/dog look alike?

[BeachyKeen]

Ooh, that is a good point. We have other events down here where I have seen the costumes and I agree that some of them are amazing.

Definitely owner/pet, too, thank you!

[lawpug]

What about best group? For those who do a theme with all of their dogs?

[sfgiants]

We do 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. Our categories are:

Best Group
Most Original
Cutest
Funniest
Scariest

[lisa woodruff]

In our haute dog howl'oween costume contest & parade we have:
best costume on a dog
best float (anything that moves, but not motorized)
best costume on dog/human combo
best group ( any combo of 2 or more dogs &/or humans)
we've won a few!

[PugLady3]

What about owner/dog look alike?

Oooh, I like that idea! I agree about the store bought/home made costume categories too.

[Judy Shimoda]

At Pug-O-Ween they had a "Best Themed Costume " catagory. The people that won it were dressed like mice- 3 of them- the black pug was dressed like cheese.