Photos: Costumed pooches strut stuff for cause

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  • Advocate photo by APRIL BUFFINGTON - Best Dynamic Duo winners in the over-20-pound category, Niki Marie Hansen and her blue doberman, Parker, perform tricks for judges, from left, Bob Murphy, Jodi Carson and Sam North at Spay Baton Rouge's Harleywood K-9 Fashion Event.

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  • Advocate photo by APRIL BUFFINGTON - Boomer, a mixed breed whose owner, Courtney Brown, says 'can talk any human out of a bowl of ice cream,' captures Best Dressed honors in the under-20-pound competition as he sashays down the red carpet in his stylin' kicks.

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  • Advocate photo by APRIL BUFFINGTON - A tutu for Dora was a natural choice considering her handler Kelsey Mulvihill’s mom, Ashley, makes and sells them. It also garnered Dora, who is up for adoption through the Pit Stop Rescue, Best Dressed honors.

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  • Advocate photo by APRIL BUFFINGTON - Freda Brown shows off her west terrier, Heather, in the under-20-pound competition.

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  • Advocate photo by APRIL BUFFINGTON - René Pearce and her Bedlington terrier, Marni, were crowned Best Dynamic Duo in the under-20–pound category for their ‘Little Bo Peep’ ensemble at Spay Baton Rouge's Harleywood K-9 Fashion Event. ‘A natural choice’ says Pearce of the pup who looks remarkably like a lamb.

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  • Advocate Photo by April Buffington - Leslie Hopes and her mixed breed, Sissy wins best originality at the dog fashion show benefiting Spay of Baton Rouge at Harley-Davidson of BR on Saturday, July 21.

  • Advocate photo by APRIL BUFFINGTON - Kaycee England walks her papillon, Nemo, down the red carpet in the under-20-pound competition at the Harleywood K-9 Fashion Event.

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