Dog decorating competition

How do you know it's a dog decorating competition and not a dog grooming competition? When the judge says it's is "a dog grooming competition... not a dog decorating competition."
Vice visits the Grooming Expo in Hershey, Pennsylvania. VICE says, "These pet owners don’t just doodle on their poodles, they turn their finest furry friends into hippies, unicorns, tigers, dinosaurs, and cartoon characters."

See the video here: Dog Grooming Expo on Vice's The Cute Show

See more photos after the jump

• [komradefox]

  ugh, why the auto-play video?

  • [Mark_Frauenfelder]

    I don’t know, but I nuked it the second I found out it was auto-play.

    • [komradefox]

      thanks :D

    • [Paul Renault]

      It’s not autoplay if you’ve got the Flashblock addon.

• [flowergardenslayer]

  Really feel for these poor dogs.

• [Brainspore]

  The most costume-related torment I ever put our dog through was to dress her up as Chewbacca for Halloween. But she’s a golden retriever so she was 95% of the way there already.

• [lasttide]

  Is that first one a dog? W. T. F.

  • [Godfree]

    It’s a Bedlington Terrier.

• [holyalmost]

  I think  I’ll  ‘groom’ my Christmas tree  this year. The word decorate suddenly seems downright cruel.

• [ZikZak]

  Like all animal competitions, this seems weird to me.
  However, unlike “normal” grooming competitions, I can understand how this might actually be kind of fun to do.

• [Ashen Victor]

  This doesn’t count as animal cruelty?
  Just look at those colours! Are they colorblind or what?

  • [flosofl]

    This doesn’t count as animal cruelty?

    How so?

• [Charlie B]

  Aaaaaaaaah!  Kill it with fire!!

  Oh, wait, it’s just a dog.

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    Aaaaaaaaah! Kill it with fire!!

    Oh, wait, it’s just a dog.

    Wouldn’t you be happy if you spotted a manticore or a chimera?

• [tewsday]

  Where is the first one’s head?  Seriously, I cannot find it.

  • [apoxia]

    It didn’t fit with the theme, so they “groomed” it off.

• [Kyt Dotson]

  I — there’s a dog in there?

• [SCAQTony]

  Of course animals like having both their hair dyed and having their own natural smell removed and replaced with something resembling that of a metallic rust scent. 

  The strategic shaving is appreciated too so that when they sleep that can have both warm spots and cold spots.

• [Guest]

  So this is what star stuff does after billions of years of evolution. Color me impressed.

  • [GoGo Vicmorrow]

    Haha.. we had practically the same thought. I posted below then immediately saw your post.

• [GoGo Vicmorrow]

  …how did it come to this?

• [666beast1]

  All the animals look sad.