We Love Your Pets! Halloween Pet Safety

Halloween can be a traumatic and even dangerous time for your pets. The ASPCA offers some commonsense tips to help you protect them:

• 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.

• Don’t dress the dog in costume unless you know he loves it. Otherwise, it puts a lot of stress on the animal.

• 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.

Learn more at: https://www.aspca.org/news/your-guide-pet-safe-halloween