Last weekend, at the flyball tournament, the hosting team sponsored a dog costume contest. I had known about the contest for quite some time, but only wanted to enter it if I could think of a truly unique costume. About two weeks ago I had one of those lightbulb-going-off moments and realized I could have a unique AND timely costume for Zoey for just a couple of bucks.

I got the used infant-sized pig costume off Ebay for $2.00. The fake box of tamiflu and the syringe/needle velcroed onto the side of the costume cost just $3.00. And there she was–SWINE FLU. During the contest, I walked Zoey around wearing my lab coat and a face mask and warned the judges to stay away from me–after all, I had SWINE FLU.

We didn’t win but got a lot of nice comments about our innovative costume :-)

One of the contest winners had me highly confused. The judges announced that the “poodle” was the winner of most humorous costume–when the “poodle” and the “poodle’s” owner walked out to accept their award, I didn’t get it. The rather-poorly-groomed “poodle” didn’t even have a costume on!! This contest was clearly rigged!!

Later in the day, I asked my friend Jonae why the “poodle” won–and she gently told me that the “poodle” was really a Doberman Pinscher!

(photo of “poodle” courtesy of Jonae)

Dog Dressed As Swine Flu

Doberman Dressed as a Poodle