Pet costumes around the world
Date: 10/30/2009 Album ID: 877852
Photos by wire services
There's no shortage of creativity this year, including a dog dressed as New York's Naked Cowboy.
Petey the Yorkshire terrier dresses as the witch from Wicked is seen during the Fifth Annual Times Square Dog Day Masquerade Oct. 18, 2009.  The canine costume contest is presented by the Times Square Alliance.  (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Ai the Chihuahua joins costumed children in a Halloween parade in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2009. Some 1,000 children in Halloween costumes took part in the Harajuku Omotesando Hello Halloween Pumpkin Parade.  (TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Dressed as a circus elephant, Gadget appears at the 14th annual Pet-O-Ween costume contest held at Theisen's in  Dubuque, Iowa, on Oct. 25, 2009. The event, open to all pets, is an annual fundraiser for the Dubuque, Iowa, Regional Humane Society.  (AP Photo/Telegraph Herald, Jeremy Portje)
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Georgie the Pekingese dresses as the Naked Cowboy during the Fifth Annual Times Square Dog Day Masquerade Oct. 18, 2009. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Tuffy dresses as a skeleton during the Fifth Annual Times Square Dog Day Masquerade Oct. 18, 2009. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Buttercup the West Highland terrier dresses as the Queen Bee with Gina Puzzanghern during the Fifth Annual Times Square Dog Day Masquerade Oct. 18, 2009. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Leo the bulldog dresses as a rock star during the Fifth Annual Times Square Dog Day Masquerade Oct. 18, 2009. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Rusty the miniature pincher dresses as the Legally Blonde Dog on the Beach during the Fifth Annual Times Square Dog Day Masquerade Oct. 18, 2009.  (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Portia the Yorkie dresses as the Princess Fiona from Shrek with Grace Forster during the Fifth Annual Times Square Dog Day Masquerade Oct. 18, 2009. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Winston, a terrier mix, dresses as the phantom from Phantom of the Opera during the Fifth Annual Times Square Dog Day Masquerade Oct. 18, 2009. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Beatrice, a mini golden doodle, dresses as a Miracle on the Hudson with Herb Westphalen and Kate Schulte dressed as flight crew members during the Fifth Annual Times Square Dog Day Masquerade Oct. 18, 2009.(TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Jim Cozzi of Key West, Fla., dresses to resemble his 9-year-old blue-and-gold macaw, Bob, for the Fantasy Fest Pet Masquerade on Oct. 28, in Key West. More than 80 pet-and-person entrants competed in front of some 1,500 spectators in the Pet Masquerade, a highlight of Key West's 10-day Fantasy Fest costuming and masking festival. (AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Rob O'Neal)
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