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HALLOWEEN
PET TIPS
Halloween can be a traumatic and even dangerous
time for your pets. The ASPCA would like to offer some common-sense
tips to help you protect them:
- Don't leave your pets out in the yard on Halloween: there are
plenty of stories of vicious pranksters who have teased, injured,
stolen, even killed pets on this night.
- Trick-or-treat candies are not for pets: chocolate is poisonous
to a lot of animals, and tin foil and cellophane candy wrappers
can be hazardous if swallowed.
- Be careful of pets around a lit pumpkin: pets may knock it over
and cause a fire. Curious kittens especially run the risk of
getting burned.
- Don't dress the dog in costume unless you know he loves it.
Otherwise, it puts a lot of stress on the animal.
- If you do dress up your dog, make sure the costume isn't
constricting, annoying or unsafe.
- Be careful not to obstruct his or her vision; even the sweetest
dogs can get snappy when they can't see what's going on around
them.
- All but the most social dogs should be kept in a separate room
during trick-or-treat visiting hours; too many strangers in
strange garb can be scary for a dog.
- Be careful your cat or dog doesn't dart out through an open
door.
While this can be a fun time for people and pets
alike, remember that your pets are depending on you to keep them safe
from the more dangerous goblins and ghouls that this holiday brings.
A.S.P.C.A.
424 East 92nd Street
New York, NY 10128-6804
www.aspca.org
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