Few things are more amusing to us than a dog in a costume.

Happily, it’s the season for all that malarky so when we offered a prize of a lovely Bark & Bumble hamper in exchange for the best doggy Halloween costumes, we got enough hilarious snaps to keep us going until Christmas.

Here are the best dressed puppers on Leeside this year… 

1. Pepper and Fran, the angel and the ladybird

Photo: Ailís Connelly

2. Olive

Photo: Susie Honez

3. Fred “Batdog” Bassett

Photo: Niamh Egan Stott

4. Parker the Pirate

Photo: Vicki O’Mahony

5. Olive and Bennie are nuns on the run

Photo: Susie Honez

6. Dracula’s doggo

7. Holly the Peacock Pooch

Photo: Nicola Carey

8. Bruce the Big Blue Bunny

Photo: Bark & Bumble