Halloween Tips

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Here is combination of articles from numerous different organizations for some friendly Halloween tips for your pets. :)

#1: To keep your pets in your possesion while/ if you're handing out candy, put your pet in a room that won't be disturbed with food, water, a favourite toy and maybe a litterbox.

#2: For all those owners of black cats/ people who see black cat strays: Black cats are seriously bullied - often injured and killed - during Halloween season because many people are naive enough to believe that they're bad luck. If you own a black cat, make sure to keep it inside the house, and for those who know strays, why not open your garage or give it a nice friendly place to hide? Just put out some food, water and a litterbox in your garage or even a make-shift home and give it (and other cats) and option for safety.

#3: Don't walk your dog on Halloween. Even the nicest dog could lash out or bite someone. On Halloween, even sweet little Fido could put on a mask and become Cujo.

#4: If you have decided to dress up your pet, make sure that the costume does not restrict his or her breathing, vision, hearing, movement or ability to bark or meow. Also, NEVER use rubber bands or other constrictive ties to hold your pet’s costume in place. These pose the danger of restricting blood flow and can be extremely harmful to your pet.

#5: Keep your pets away from small costume accessories, candy wrappers, lollipop sticks, or loose items. These can all be choking hazards!

#6: KEEP THE CANDY FOR THE CHILDREN. Do not let your pets have candy! ABSOLUTELY NO CANDY FOR THE PETS! Chocolate is deadly to many different kinds of animals, so keep the candy away from them!

#7: Keep your jack-o-lanterns in places where curious creatures can't sniff them and burn their noses. For other decorations, do the same, to keep your pets from strangling or entangling themselves.

#8: Make sure that you spend a lot of time with your animals, but do it without a mask. I know from experience, if you look frigtening to humans, you probably look even more scary to them.

BLURB!: Not only is chocolate poisonous to dogs, but also cocoa, raisins, grapes, macadamia nuts, mushrooms, alcohol, coffee, uncooked yeast dough, onions, onion powder, toothpaste, garlic and avocado.

Also, check out (and send) PETA's new Halloween eCard. It's pretty cool. :) Thumbs up, deck out your costume and HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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