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Photo credits:\u00a0 Samuel Lippke – 2 couture pets; Chato, Dog Driver – Marcia; 2 dogs – Melissa Hammonds; Father Time, Spider, Indian – Burke Doeren and Kellie Henika<\/p>\n
BELMONT SHORE, CALIF. — Dogs dressed as spiders, drivers, horses, lambs, lions, clowns, ballerinas, society’s finest and just about anything you can imagine strut their stuff each year near the shores of Belmont Shore<\/a>, a community in Long Beach, Calif.\u00a0 With over 500 animals in costume and thousands of spectators, the event is billed as the biggest such event in the world!\u00a0 Now in its 12th season in 2012, it takes place on Sunday, October Oct. 28, at 2:25 p.m. The start\/finish is at Livingston Park, 4900 E. Livingston Dr. (at Park Ave.) Vendors and pet adoptions showcase products and lovable pets from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Costumed kids and adults without dogs will lead the parade at 2:25 p.m., followed by the dogs with their pet people at 2:30 p.m. The parade should last approx. 1 hour. Registration fee to enter the parade is around $10. Online at: hautedogs.org\u00a0\u00a0 Bring your own chair or rent one for $5, starting at about 1 p.m. The seats did sell out last year.\u00a0 See more annual dog events<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Photo credits:\u00a0 Samuel Lippke – 2 couture pets; Chato, Dog Driver – Marcia; 2 dogs – Melissa Hammonds; Father Time, Spider, Indian – Burke Doeren and Kellie Henika BELMONT SHORE, CALIF. — Dogs dressed as spiders, drivers, horses, lambs, lions, clowns, ballerinas, society’s finest and just about anything you can imagine strut their stuff each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}