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Bruiser was a frog this year. But he was definitely not impressed with his first halloween. The trick-or-treaters freaked him out and he couldn't stop barking at them. We had to put him out back.
My family doesn't celebrate Halloween, and even when we used to, we never dressed up our pets. All of the activity is just too stressful for them. Instead, because of the nature of my work (I work in a youth rehab center), I took the night off to "hide out" with my family. We turned off all the lights and holed up in the master bedroom together, dogs included, and watched movies and had a picnic on the bed. We all had a marvellous time, and the dogs were exhausted from being kept awake most of the night, lol.
Murphy only wears clothes when it's cold out or as a cover when it's raining, or a scarf so people aren't as put off by him (black dog syndrome?) so I didn't dress him up. I also took him out to the park for a little play and a loooong walk earlier in the day so he wouldn't have to be out when all the goblins and crazy-looking folks were out; that would have been too stressful for him. So he stayed in all night and napped on the bed with soothing music on so he wouldn't have to hear the revelers outside.
yes some people put costumes on their dogs. In fact I just bought one for Max (1/2 price) to wear for any costume contest. There are often pet costume contests during Oct.
I know this is totally foreign to the British folks. Anyway Halloween is an American custom.
As you say, maximoo, Halloween is an American custom. Here in Spain it's totally unheard of. Well, of course, they celebrate All Saints day, but it's a religious thing and no big fuss is made of it.
mum24dog wrote:People dress their dogs up for Halloween?
Pam
I'll have to post pictures of the two doxies with last year's costumes. Kole was a devil, Lu was a hotdog. I don't think we got any pictures of Bruiser with his frog.
We went the day of Halloween to look at junk (I call it that because I really didn't need anything we looked at). And the only puppy costumes they had was the frog and a humongous bumblebee. I don't think he would ever forgive me if I dressed him up as a bumblebee. I bet I could go online and get something for the clearance price--thanks for the heads up!!
Actually it isn't. The commercialisation of Halloween is.
It derives from the Celtic festival of Samhain and morphed into Halloween in a form we would begin to recognise in the 19th century.
Halloween traditions were imported to the US in the 19th Century by Irish immigrants.
Even Trick or Treat isn't really an American invention. From what I can find it didn't become an established part of Halloween in the US until the 1930s or 40s. We've long had Mischief Night over here (written records from the 18th century) but it took place on 4th November (today) and didn't originally involve begging. It's dieing out now in favour of the American version of Halloween. Trick or Treat is likely to have arisen from a combination of several existing or past traditions.
When my children were young we used to get two hits - one from the Trick or Treaters then another from the same kids on Mischief Night.
In my childhood in a northern village in the 1950s Halloween was more traditional - turnip lanterns (no pumpkins in those days), home made costumes and apple bobbing and other games in the village hall.
