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  • 1.  Pet Costume Contest --- Need Info

    Posted 16 days ago

    We are going to hold a pet costume contest.  Have others held these?  Can I get some tips -- logistic info -- ideas -- etc, etc?  Happy to share what we come up with after I've put in place.


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    Karen Kirsch
    Founder
    Spayed and Aid
    KY
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  • 2.  RE: Pet Costume Contest --- Need Info

    Posted 15 days ago

    We host/sponsor the annual Pet Costume Contest at  our town's Christmas event and typically have 20-30 entries (usually 40+ pets since some register all their pets as one entry). For our event, I recruit 3-5 judges from our Board of Directors, Staff, Volunteers, and Community Partners/significant Donors.

    The people sign up for the event from 4:30pm-6:00pm the day of, at the event site. Then it starts at 6:30pm and usually wraps up by 9:00pm. We collect people and pets' names and assign them a number. They are called up in order of their number and have 1-2 minutes to "share." Some people share their pet's story, personality, or show off tricks. They can have their multiple pets as one entry if they want. One year, a group of 4 elderly small dogs in a wagon won Funniest as "Santa's Lunchbox." The dogs were each dressed ina  food costume and the wagon was decorated as the lunchbox! 

    Our judges rate them between 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest) in four categories: Best Holiday Theme, Crowd Favorite, Most Creative, and Funniest Costume. At the end, we tally up all the totals and pull our four winners. I don't let anyone win 2 categories; if someone already won one and technically wins another, I'll give that prize to the 2nd place person as the winner. I make the prize baskets that the winners are awarded. 

    Here's the event page from last year: https://www.downtownroanoke.org/do/delta-dental-dickens-of-a-christmas-night-3-featuring-roanoke-valley-spca-pet-costume-contest 

    And last year's news story: https://www.wdbj7.com/video/2023/12/16/dickens-pet-costume-contest/



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    Erin Dams
    Community Relations Coordinator
    Roanoke Valley SPCA
    Roanoke VA
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  • 3.  RE: Pet Costume Contest --- Need Info

    Posted 15 days ago

    Perfect.  This is EXACTLY what I was looking for.  THANK YOU!!!



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    Karen Kirsch
    Founder
    Spayed and Aid
    KY
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