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not my dog Buddy. Buddy does not like wearing costumes.

The winner Raul an English Bulldog won the Columbus Dispatch's 2007 Pet Costume Contest, dressed as Henry VIII complete with wives heads (they look like Barbie Doll heads to me. ) Raul's costume really is creative.

2007 Pet Costume Contest - Slide Show on The Columbus Dispatch website.

The second prize winner, Beau, a French mastiff is wearing my dog Buddy's Devil costume or similar...probably a lot larger devil costume and Beau wears it well and as the judges noted Beau has the right expression. This photo is from years ago and although you can not see Buddy's expression you can see Buddy did not want to dress up as a devil.

This was the best photo.

Hardly a photo that will win a dog costume contest. It is almost impossible to photograph a dog who does not want to wear a costume. The Humane Society would probably frown on the use of duct tape so we did NOT try it.

I thought the ferret dressed as a pirate on the front page of section D of the Columbus Dispatch today was a cat at first. I don't know personally how easy ferrets are to dress but I know I would not play dress up with a cat now. I did as a kid. Kittens. puppies, rabbits, my younger brothers, whatever would stay still long enough.

For the full story read Pet Costume Contest - Pet projects by Joe Blundo of the Columbus Dispatch

There are pet dress up opportunities in Columbus on Sunday that benefit the Franklin County Animal Shelter and the Capital Area Humane Society. Visit ColumbusBestBlog.com for details on those Central Ohio Halloween events.

The picture is from one of those emails you get... I got this email with dogs dressed up for Halloween over a year ago. Lots of funny dog dressed up in cute costumes... thus the info about the dogs names and personal info about the dogs below the photo...

I think Wiener Dogs really lend themselves to dress up.

"I am a dog lover.

I like funny photos.

I like Halloween."

My dog Buddy does not share my love of doggie dress up. He has trained me that we just don't try putting on costumes anymore.

This Sunday's Muttster Mash benefits the Franklin County Dog Shelter

The Pet Parade at Easton benefits the Capital Area Humane Society.

Halloween in Columbus is not just for dressing up canines though... There is oh so much more to do than doggie dress up, including events for kids and grown ups. Central Ohio Halloween events include haunted houses, Halloween parties, Boo at the Zoo, the Santa Maria dressed up as a pirate ship for Halloween, tours of Columbus landmarks and more.

I have a lot of Central Ohio Halloween events on my other blog, ColumbusBestBlog.com including:

Central Ohio Halloween - including Trick or Treat info for Columbus and other Central Ohio communities.

Columbus (area) has one of the top ten haunted houses in the United States!

Haunted Ohio - The Big House (a little bit outside the area)

Columbus Landmarks Foundation Tours

With all Landmark's Foundation Tours "Advance registration is required & group size is limited." And being tours they "take off" at the scheduled time....

Dead End Bus Tour

Spooky South Walking Tour

Haunts on the High Road

More real estate related:

Scary Central Ohio Neighborhoods

Scary Central Ohio Neighborhoods II

Happy Halloween!

I wrote "If the California Cows Relocated to Columbus" for ColumbusBestBlog.com, my other blog. I could not post the YouTube to my WordPress.org blog. I tried and tried but could not so I posted it to my third blog, Discover Columbus, a RealTown Blog. I am not going to give a link to Discover Columbus because that blog has juice suddenly! Whatever RealTown did to the urls it worked. Of course it would be great with all that traffic if the images weren't red x's and if the links worked. Discover Columbus has had a long tradition of cow posts because people sometimes call Columbus a cowtown.

I wrote on Discover Columbus (well actually I wrote it on ColumbusBestBlog.com just couldn't publish it there... with the cow commercials):

Yes we do have cow herds in Columbus because of OSU Ag School. There is a dairy cow herd and a beef cow herd in northwest Columbus.

I should not like the California Happy Cows commercials but I do. The commercials make it seem as if Midwestern cows should be UnHappy about the weather! They also stereotype Midwestern cows as all talking like the cows do in Fargo North Dakota and Minnesota.

Here's a little example of stereotyping of Midwestern cows, notice the snow.... here's a Midwestern cow relocating to California. Hope "Sadie" checked out prices and conditions before she set out on the journey...

OK visit Discover Columbus if you want to see Happy California singing... propaganda film! ;-)

If anyone in the ActiveRain WordPress group can give some hints on posting YouTube to WordPress.org blogs I am all ears. Carole Cohen in Cleveland posted an itty bitty pig YouTube video on ActiveRain. To me Cincinnati is pigs, not Cleveland.

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Buyers (humans):

MyRealLiving.com - Set up your own page! Choose me as your agent if you would like to work together to find a property.

Find a Central Ohio Home - Let me help you find your “Dream Home”

Home owners:

What’s your Columbus Ohio home worth? Market Analysis Request

When you hear Columbus Ohio do you think of the City of Columbus? The "Greater Columbus Area?" Or something else?

Geographically what is Columbus Ohio to you?

Is Pataskala Columbus? Columbus - Top Ten US Haunted Houses

Is Polaris Columbus?* Polaris Mitchell’s Martini’s to be Marcella’s

Is a Southern Ohio community Columbus? I think the owner of the home knows it's not Columbus or Central Ohio but is grasping at straws to find a buyer for her home. Where the heck is _____ County, Ohio?
and thinks Central Ohio real estate agents will drive a buyer two and a half hours to show her home because everyone in Columbus wants to move to the country...

Did Forbes.com and Moody's Economy.com just consider housing in the City of Columbus? Columbus Housing Market is Stable or is this the "Greater Columbus" area?

Is Bexley and other suburbs inside 270 part of Columbus? “Obscure” Ohio a Columbus Suburb

Are the NE suburbs outside 270 Columbus? Columbus N.E. a Mansion Fit for a King

Did Forbes.com just consider the City of Columbus when they named Columbus a good place for singles? Or were they also considering Dublin, Grandview, Upper Arlington, Powell, Lewis Center, Westerville etc. considererd? Columbus 19th Best

Columbus Dispatch “beware of sliding prices”? Yes they were talking Central Ohio and not strictly Columbus since the Dispatch was calling Upper Arlington and Powell neighborhoods, along with Clintonville.

Columbus Makes National Top Ten List!

“Columbus Home to 1.72 million people”

Are Delaware, Fayette, Madison, Morrow and Union counties Columbus? How about pieces of Licking, Pickaway, Fairfield, Champaign, Clark, Knox, Logan and Marion counties, are they Columbus Ohio? Those are the counties that the Columbus Board of Realtors covers. Whenever they issue a report about Columbus sales it says:

Would Spiderman ever relocate to Columbus? Probably not but if Goran Utvic can speculate about Spidey moving to Chicago from New York... Goran wrote: "If Spiderman decided that he no longer wanted to websling from the Empire State Building..." I can wonder about Spiderman relocating to Columbus.

I wrote about it on ColumbusBestBlog.com Spidey would of course live in downtown Columbus so he could hang out at Leveque Tower, the Art Deco "skyscraper" built in 1927. The second tallest building in Columbus has the right feel for the cartoon character. I believe it is 47 stories tall.

If I can speculate about Spiderman moving to Central Ohio I can take it further and I did on ColumbusBestBlog.com in If Spiderman Moved to Columbus.

Where would other cartoon strip characters relocate to in Central Ohio? Where would Opus cavort? Which cartoon character would be likely to live in Worthington? Which cartoon family would live in Dublin or Westerville? Who would relocate to Dublin or Westerville? For the most part I kind of pictured most of the cartoon strip characters living inside 270 for some reason but in more suburban kind of neighborhoods. Characters like Blondie and Dagwood, The Family Circus, Peanuts, Hi and Lois, Calvin and Hobbes...

Why would cartoon characters relocate to Columbus or Central Ohio? Maybe because of OSU's Cartoon Research Library. This week is the Festival of Cartoon Art at OSU. Maybe some of these characters will be in town for it. From the Cartoon Research Library website: "The ninth triennial Festival of Cartoon Art, October 26-27, 2007, will focus on the art of graphic storytelling."

OSU's Cartoon Research Library turns 30 on Discover Columbus.

See you in the funny papers.

Photo credits: The photo of the Leveque Tower is from Wikipedia. Photo shot by Derek Jensen (Tysto), 2005-October-03 who released the photo to the public domain, "I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible: I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law."