A few things to keep in mind for your 4-legged friend.
Halloween is lots of fun and thrills for us humans. But let’s consider it from our dogs perspective…
Costumes
From a dog’s perspectives costumes can look scary and very wierd and may bring out a slightly aggressive or fearful side of your pup.
If you are dressing up your own dog please make sure that the costume is not too tight and is comfortable on the dog and does not obstruct the dogs eye sight.
Trick or Treaters
All of these people coming to the door, one after another. They all knock or ring the door bell. If you know your dog is an alert barker or even a door darter consider confining your dog for the evening in a crate, another room, behind a baby gate, or on a leash attached to you. Please do NOT leave your pup outside, as all of the scary noises and other dogs barking, people noise and traffic in the neighborhood can scare dogs to the point that they will bust through or jump fences and gates. Candy
I hope that we all know that chocolate is dangerous to dogs. So are all the other variation of candies available. Don’t forget wrappers! Dog’s are opportunists and often will even try to lick or chew on candy wrappers and in tern wind up swallowing them. So when you are handing out candy and / or when your kids are home eating and sorting theirs make sure it is Completely out of reach of your family pet.
Have a fun happy safe halloween :)
