If you've ever dressed your own dog, you know it's partly for the laughs and partly for the bonding. There's something about gently sliding those little paws through tiny sleeves and watching them ...

Eds: Updates throughout with addition details of gathering, quotes. Adds byline. With AP Photos. KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Hundreds of tiny tacos, ballerinas and other costumed dogs fell short of a world ...

It opens innocently enough. The camera pans to what looks like the owner reading something dramatic—the kind of slow, serious setup that already makes you lean in. And then the camera cuts to the star ...