Halloween is fast approaching and the Chemung County Humane Society and SPCA wants to encourage all families to keep their pets safe this Halloween. Follow these tips to have a stress free evening for your pet:
- Keep your pets inside during Halloween. With the large number of unknown people in the neighborhood, your animal is safer inside. If left outside, your cat or dog could get teased, hurt or scared. Also, make sure your pet is wearing a collar and ID tags just in case they dart out when you open the door for trick-or-treaters.
- 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 – they can knock it down and cause a fire or burn themselves.
- Don’t dress the dog or cat in costume unless you know he or she loves it. Otherwise, it puts a lot of stress on your animal.
- It’s best to keep your pet in a separate room during trick-or-treat visiting hours. Too many strangers in costumes can be very scary for animals. You may know that the child under that scary costume is harmless, but your pet does not.
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