The park by us was busier than normal on Saturday morning and I had initially attributed it to the Saturday morning kid soccer leagues playing.  Then I noticed there were a bunch of display-style tents pitched on the basketball court.  As my daughter and I were playing catch, I noticed an unnatural amount of wiener dogs passing by us on the way to the tents.  It was then that I realized it was a wiener dog convention.

Now, it was memorable enough to see 200+ wiener dogs in one area, but what made a mark in my memory bank was the fact that these damn dogs were all dressed up in their Halloween best!!  I’m sure most of you have gotten an email at one point with the title “Why pets kill their owners”, followed by 10 or so pictures of dogs being dressed up in outlandish garb that makes you feel embarrassed for those pets.  There were wiener dogs dressed up in hula skirts, devil horns, leopard prints – you name it, they were dressed in it.

Of course there had to be one weird owner who tops them all and the dual-dog baby carriage was the clear winner in the These People Think Their Dogs Are Human category.  What a bunch of weirdos, but at least it wasn’t a Chihuahua Convention.  These wiener dogs thankfully aren’t as yappy as other midget dogs with a shriek bark and a Napoleon Complex.  Those are the ones that I don’t feel bad that they eventually become the meat in my “mu shu pork” from my local Chinese restaurant.