🎃🐾 LI-DOG Howl-O-Ween Costume Contest & Pawty! 🐾🎃

Calling all spooky pups, silly mutts, and dressed-up doggos—it’s time to unleash the fun! LI-DOG is taking over The Pine Grove Inn for an afternoon packed with creative costumes, festive activities, and plenty of reasons for dogs and their people to celebrate together.

Costume Contest

Turn PGI’s back lawn into your pup’s personal runway! Bring out the capes, crowns, clever characters, and coordinated ensembles for a costume contest where originality gets its moment in the spotlight. There are two categories in our contest:

1. Best Standalone Pet: Whether your pup is a werewolf, taco, fairy or hot dog, we can’t wait to see your creativity!
2. Best Dog & Human Team: Pair up for a themed costume that shows off your imagination: a pup pilot and his flight crew? Cruella deVil and her Dalmatians? Old McDonald and his farm animals?

The top three costume contest winners in each category will share $300 in prizes!

More Pawty Highlights

1. 🍬 Something Tasty: Pick up pup-friendly snacks and bites for humans, available for purchase during the event.
2. 📸 Picture-Perfect Moments: Pose against a playful Halloween backdrop filled with pumpkins, spooky scenery, and seasonal flair.
3. 🎨 Make-and-Take Fun: Create a paw-print painting with your dog or decorate a spooky Halloween-themed cutout to bring home as a festive memento.

🎃🐾 Special Guests: Visit with our fabulous VIPs (Very Important Pet vendors) sharing dog-friendly goodies and gear and valuable resources and services for you and your four-legged family members.

1. Wyldfire Photography will be on hand ready to snap picture-perfect shots of you and your pup dressed for the pawty.
2. Bark and Bead will be there with their festive handmade beaded collars and matching bracelets.
3. Community Pet Supplies will have treats, toys, and information on their upcoming Photos with Santa event.
4. Who Lets Your Dog Out will once again set up a small agility course so your pup can try out their jumping and weaving skills.
5. And that’s just the start. More special guest announcements to come!

🎵 Music—spooky, fun and upbeat--provided by our DJ Mike Kaplow and his trusty sidekick Ms. Maroney. Enjoy a playlist filled with tunes that everyone—humans and pups alike—can enjoy.

🧺 GREAT raffle baskets generously donated by our sponsors to support LI-DOG’s fundraiser. From goodies for our dogs to hand-crafted gifts for you, be sure to purchase raffle tickets for a chance to win one of the terrific raffle baskets donated by our sponsors—Behr's Boutique, Brutus Bone Broth, Community Pet Supplies, The Fish Store Market & Restaurant, Health Extension Pet Products, Laura P. Photography, Alan Meschkow, Gail Meschkow, Momos Too, Pindar Vineyards, and many others.

A lovely setting! Imagine a big lawn with a lazy river flowing by, a pretty gazebo in the corner, and tables with umbrellas on a brick patio with an outdoor bar serving Howl-o-Ween themed drinks nearby. That’s the Pine Grove Inn!

👥 Open to all dog lovers—costumes encouraged but not required.
Our Howl-o-Ween Pawty is an important fundraiser for LI-DOG, which works to get more access to public parks and beaches on Long Island for dog owners and their pups!

So, grab your dog-loving friends and family and join us on November1st for what should be a lot of fun AND a great way to support LI-DOG’s work!

Discounted advance tickets for $15 per person will be available for purchase from our website soon. On the day of the event, tickets will be $20 per person. Dogs and children 12 and under are FREE.

To RSVP, go to:
Here on Meetup
LI-DOG on Facebook
Howl-O-Ween Pawty at The Pine Grove Inn
or email [email protected]

🙋 Help Make the Pawty a Success!
We need volunteers to help make our pawty happen! Email us at [email protected] with Howl-o-ween Pawty Volunteer in the subject line if you’d to help decorate the venue, set up our raffles, or participate in other ways.

Sponsorship Opportunities Available!
Our Howl-o-Ween fundraiser offers several ways for sponsors to connect with engaged, enthusiastic dog owners by showcasing their products and services from LI-DOG’s website and social media acknowledgements to shout-outs at the event itself.

To get details, check out LI-DOG’s Sponsorship Opportunities page and click on the Howl-o-Ween 2026 Sponsor Opportunities flyer.

🐾 Important Reminder for Pet Owners

1. Please be aware dogs must remain leashed on non-retractable leads at all times\.\
2. Please walk your dog before entering the venue.
3. Only service dogs are permitted inside the restaurant.

☁️ In the event of inclement weather, please check our website, Facebook, or Meetup the morning of the event. If there is no announcement the Pawty is ON!

We look forward to seeing you and your pups at LI-DOG’s Howl-o-Ween Pawty & Fundraiser on Sunday, Nov. 1st!