The Making Of A Spider Pug Costume

This is a great costume but after you are through with the shirt and the pipe stems it's hard to imagine you saved any money by doing it yourself...

Materials:

1.A pug...black or brown or brindle...or a Jack Russell if that's all you have!
2.large pipe cleaners
3.black doggie t-shirt (Don't have any subsequent plans for it after the superglue is through!)
4.flat piece of foam (to protect dog's back from pipe cleaner pokes)
5.superglue

Instructions:
1. Glue the foam into the back of the black doggie t-shirt--don't forget to kiss it goodby! . 2. Shape the pipe cleaner "legs", then poke through the back of the shirt and into the foam (don't push all the way through!). Glue around the base of the pipe cleaners, if necessary. Let dry. 3. Slip t-shirt on dog and you're done!

thanks to costumezee.com for this one!

Why bother to just use black pipe cleaners. The more color the Merrier! or the Scarier! 

What is a JAPUG?

Never heard of them...had You? I'd seen them from time to time but thought they were simply pugs without portfolio-which is apparently exactly what they are. A cross between the Japanese Chin and a Pug. Or maybe I should say a Japanese Chin without portfolio...you get my drift.
Anyway, the little beauty on the left is a Japanese Chin. The two older looking dogs below are both Japugs. In this case 50%Chin and 50% Pug.
The two older dogs are apparently from the same litter and as you can tell from their grizzled countenances about ten-years-old. I looked in vain for a Japug in costume.  The one costume that I found that had some Japanese context on Amazon isn't dressing a pug but the neck and chest sizes looked like they would do the trick.