The Dog Costume Parade

Our town's park hosts a dog costume parade every year at the end of October, and this year, for the first time, I entered my dachshund, Biscuit.

I spent two weeks making his costume: a hot dog bun. Obviously. Biscuit tolerated it with the weary dignity of a dog who knows exactly what is happening to him.

There were ninety dogs. A Great Dane dressed as a unicorn. A pug dressed as a pumpkin. Three chihuahuas in a single costume as a three-headed dragon. A golden retriever dressed as a mail carrier, carrying a little bag of letters in her mouth. Everyone walked a loop around the park while a local radio host narrated through a speaker.

Biscuit walked the whole route with his nose in the air, perfectly unbothered. The crowd loved him. He won "Most Delicious." He received a giant bone, which he refused to share, and a ribbon, which I've hung on our fridge.