Mutt Strut Howl-oween and Southport Block Party

We attended a fun Halloween event this weekend. Thanks to the great people from Chicago Canine Rescue, who organized the Mutt Strut's rain date (original date was in September) in connection with Lakeview Chamber of Commerce's Southport block party and Dog-a-holics. I think it was a winning combination. In addition to the Mutt Strut events like the cake-eating contest (for dogs) and silent auction, there was a pet costume contest as well as all the block party fun for the kids (games, bouncy houses, trick-or-treating at Southport businesses.)  After the costume contest there was a pet parade down Southport. Kye Martin from CLTV was there MC-ing the event and said to look for an entry about the event on her blog page. I'd post a link if I could find it. We also got to see our friends from Safe Humane Chicago at their booth as well as check out some other info and product booths at the event.
I will try to add some more photos or links to this post if/when I locate them It's too soon for anything to be online yet, but if anyone wants to check you can go to CLTV.com, chicagocaninerescue.com, and fetchportraits.com

They're not there yet as I post this but also check here for photos of the event:
http://photos.fetchportraits.com/Dogs/Event-Candids

RVAH Halloween Bash and Bark-o-ween photos

 Yesterday we attended the Roscoe Village Animal Hospital's Halloween Bash. It was a lot of fun! There were many great pet costumes (and kids), fun games, raffles and refreshments, and a photographer. The event benefited New Leash on Life Animal Rescue.
We had a lot of fun trying to wrangle two cats and a dog to photograph, but you can see below that the results were not bad (the middle two photos). I also added a few photos below from the Parker's Pets Bark-o-ween party.

Svengoolie's Blog

We were mentioned again this year on Svengoolie's blog entry about Parker's Pet's Bark-o-ween event!
http://www.wciu.com/svengoolie.php?section=blog&assetID=10003632

You can see photos from the event here:
http://photos.fetchportraits.com/Dogs/Event-Candids/Svengoolie-Parkers-Pets/14043861_md6xR#1033636468_zzxRq

Bark-o-ween 2010

Last Saturday was Parker's Pets Bark-o-ween party and contest. We were hoping for better weather than last year since it is earlier in October this year, but we ended up with a lot of rain.  It was outdoors. The forecast called for scattered showers but it rained more than not and at times it was hard pouring rain. Despite that, it was a lot of fun! We got photos with Svengoolie again (they will be added to this post when I pick them up) and there were a lot of creative costumes. We got first place in the cat costume category. I don't have any photos yet but I will post them as soon as I can.

Bioshock

Bioshock is not technically Halloween related, but it is a rather spooky/creepy game so I think it qualifies. The music is spooky enough by itself, but when you add in everything else-- the visuals, the sound effects, the Big Daddy and Little Sisters-- you get a game that is fun to play but can give you an adrenaline rush because you just never know what is coming around the corner...unless you hear the distinctive THUD THUD THUD of the Big Daddy's footsteps of course!

Here are a few videos showing some of the scary scenes of the first Bioshock game. The special effects and music really add to the atmosphere!









Here is some of the music:

Halloween Playlist

I created a Halloween playlist on youtube for anyone who wants to get in the Halloween spirit. I chose these videos for the music mostly, so some of them have weird videos:

Creepy Doll

I really like this song, I think it is one of my favorite songs about creepy dolls. Oh, wait...

The video's not bad either.