I'm a talking freelance mascot / fursuiter, and I try to always encourage the people to participate with me by adding a little "flash" with their pose. "Hey! everyone! Point at mom and say "I'm the big dog!!!"" On the count of three: One...two....three!!
This is with Solitary Gray Wolf with her Lone wolf fursona. She and her husband were in town on vacation, and wanted a chance to fursuit with me. So I rounded up about 2000 of my friends got a live band to play 1950's sock hop music playing for the evening, and we had a ball.