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Photos: Doggies Strut Their Stuff At Tompkins Square Park Halloween Costume Parade
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Ben Yakas
Published Oct 21, 2012
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Yesterday marked the return of our favorite holiday-related animal costume parade of the year: the 22nd annual Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade. While last year's event was full of OWS-related protest pooches, meat-dress clad Lady Gagas and even a dog dressed as Dave Mustane of Megadeth, we had quite a different array of costumes this year, including Mutt Romney, Evita, an ET homage, and...a dog with a face on its butt.
Click through to check out the adorable photos from the one-and-only Katie Sokoler—and since there were too many puppies for just one post, we'll feature some of our favorite reader photos tomorrow.
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