2019 Howl-O-Ween Pet Parade And Costume Contest

Date Of Event: October 12, 2019

Location: Pickering Wharf,  Salem Maritime Museum, 160 Derby St, Salem MA

Summary: over 100 pets met up at the Salem Maritime Museum to show off their costumes and march in the Howl-O-Ween pet parade.

Halloween isn’t just for humans.  The annual Howl-O-Ween pet parade showed off over 100 of these Halloween pet revelers.

Although I wasn’t able to get all of the participants names and breeds.  Below is a sample of some of the participants:

Pepper, Millie, Hobs and Rocky (all chihuahuas) were the three Musketeers and fun sized Musketeer.

Sadie, dressed as Jason Doghees I mean Vorhees, is a 12 year old Peekapoo.

Lucy, 1 year old Puggle, was a roaring lion.  Lucy is a rescue from the Northeast Animal Shelter in Salem, MA.  She was saved from one of the storms that recently hit Florida.

Ralph, a Jack Russell and Mini Pinscher rescue, was a cute little pineapple.

Triskit, a 3 year old chihuahua, was a parrot.

Buddy (on the left), a 8 year old chihuahua, was a lumberjack.  Pixie, dressed as Babe The Blue Ox (on the right), is a 6 year old chihuahua.

One year old Penny Liu was dressed as a Chinese Mandarin.

Calypso was an angel.

Winston, a 5 year old Corgi, was dressed as Paddington.

Reecey, a 13 year old half border, half husky mix, was dressed as a mutant ninja turtle.

Olive, a 4 year old feist mix, was a bumble bee.

Ziggy was dressed as Mr. Spock.  Live long and prosper Ziggy!

Oso had a very special delivery for everyone!

Jasper, a 2 and a half year old mixed breed, was a zebra.

“Sweep the leg!”  Dexter, dressed as Johnny from Cobra Kai and Oliver, dressed as “Daniel son” from Miyagi-Do.  They are both 4 year old French Bulldogs.

Hazel (on the left) was dressed as a peacock.  Molly (on the right) was dressed as Cleopatra.

Grayson was dressed as Lucy.

Twix, the cowgirl, is an 11 month old Dalmatian.

Opal, a 9 month old husky mix, was dressed as Hermione Granger.

Benji, 10 years old, was dressed as Batman.

Remus, a 4 month old mixed Lab, was dressed as Luigi.  If you watch the video of the pet parade below you may see his mom and dad dressed as Mario and the Princess from Super Mario World.

Henry, a 2 year old, King Charles Cavalier, was dressed as a Cavalier.

Seba the lion is a 4 year old Lab.

The acrobatic Tilda was dressed as a ballerina.

Nissan (on the left) was dressed as Princess Leia.  Sirius (on the right) was dressed as Yoda.  They are both terrier mix shelter dogs.

Hunter, a 5 year old rescue lab, was dressed as a skunk.

Sequoia, a 3 year old cattle mix, was dressed as a blowfish.

The pet parents also got into the spirit of the event.

Daisy and her mom were dressed as the Little Mermaid and Ursula.

Nala and her family were the “udderly spectacular” cow family.

Walt was dressed as Flounder with the Little Mermaid.

Dumbo was dressed as an alligator.

Brady and the rest of the family were dressed as Abu with Aladdin and Family

Not all of the pets at the parade were dogs, though.

There was this chicken.

There were also these two very brave cats.

Scout was dressed as Peter Pan’s shadow.

and this cat/lion hybrid!

Strider, a 10 year old fancy bearded dragon, was dressed as a clarinet.

Unfortunately, I was unable to get the names of these cute pets below.

Although they looked great and the main point of the event was to have fun.  There were awards for best overall costume, most creative and the best costume with people.  Some of the winners of the costume contest were:

Ruby the Racehorse, a 2 year old pointer mix, won for best pet with humans.

Adelphie, dressed as a time traveler’s backpack, won for most creative.

Butterscotch, dressed as spaghetti and meatballs, also won a pet with humans award. It wasn’t until later when they received their award did I notice the Lady and the Tramp tie in.

Nellie, dressed as a pin cushion, won for best overall costume.

Last, but certainly not least, Tilda, 5 years old, was the Grand Marshall of the event!

There was also a pet parade where all of the contestants could show off their costumes.  All of the more than 100 contestants and their parents or friends marched in the parade.