Costume Contest
NEW THIS YEAR!
Cash prizes for top 3 costumes:
Best In Show: $250
1st Runner Up: $200
2nd Runner Up: $150
Plus lots of other great prizes will be awarded to contest participants by our judges.
There are no specific categories, but if you want one of the top cash prizes, you will need to step up your game!!Judges will select winners based on:
Originality
Quality
“Fun” Quotient
Complexity
So start channeling your creative genius, and craft a winning costume for you and your dog.
Costumes must be in good taste and appropriate for your dog.
If you have a pair of dogs whose costumes are a part of one obvious theme, you may register the pair as one dog. If their costumes are unrelated, each dog must be registered separately.
Also acceptable: you and your dog [or human family members and their dog(s)] may all be in costume as one entry if costumes are part of one overall theme.
If you are participating in the Costume Contest, here’s how it will work…
Schedule
11:30 a.m.
Registration Opens
Noon-2:00 p.m
Contest participants present their dog(s) to the Judges.
2:15 p.m.
Contest participants report back to Registration line up for Parade of Dogs.
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Raffle drawing winners will be announced and Costume Contest prizes awarded.
Judges
Rosie Gantt
Dominique Smith
NBC 29
Jake Billmyer
Orris
Prizes
In addition to the top 3 cash prizes, we have prizes donated by:
- Basic Necessities
- Blue Mountain Brewery
- Bricks & Minifigs
- Crate & Marrow
- Hardwood Artisans
- L. L. Bean
- Lululemon
- Matchbox
- Mincer’s
- Noodles & Co.
- Orvis
- The Virginia Shop
- 3 Notched
- Torchy’s Tacos
- Valley Road Winery
Plus additional items donated by supporters of Caring For Creatures
Our M.C.
This year we welcome Tom Morgan, from Cville Country, 92.7 FM radio as Strut Your Mutt’s Master of Ceremony!
