The Silver Spring Penguin

Photo: Somebody give these guys a cookie! Credit: J. Deseo/SSP.

Saturday’s soggy weather may have kept trick-or-treaters inside, but it didn’t stop one costumed crew from frolicking outdoors.

That afternoon, the prospect of fresh air was enough to draw doggies (and their owners) to a small dog park outside The Blairs apartment complex off East-West Highway. The trio of pugs, one Westie, a dachshund and a larger mixed-breed dog played dumb to the mud and cars cruising an adjacent supermarket parking lot.

Moreover, they didn’t seem to care how they looked. The bouncing appendages of a bee costume didn’t bother the Westie. The fluttering black cape of the dachshund’s vampire suit was no big deal. A black pug named Pumperknickle ignored the flap of his oversized angel’s wings.

All that mattered to them was the open (albeit gated) space, and the chance to chase their own and each other’s tails. Of course, the biscuits offered by one apartment manager didn’t hurt, either.

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Photos by J. Deseo/SSP.