(updated October 2020)
Last year I wrote a post sharing Halloween customs and photos from around the world and as it was so well received, I thought I’d bring you more this year. It’s not just humans who enjoy fancy dress, I came across a few dogs and cats dressed up for Halloween too.
I’d love you to meet Luna from the UK, Lucy from across the pond in the USA, and Pancake from Bulgaria.
Therapy Dog Lucy
I’ve been speaking with Wendy Radi Hasselman from Seal Beach, California about her lovely toy poodle-mix Lucy. Lucy was adopted from Pups and Pals, a local rescue.
Lucy is a therapy dog that visits the long term spinal cord injury center at the VA in Long Beach. The young lady pictured also volunteers. When Wendy found out that she was going to be dressed as Wonder Woman, she couldn’t resist getting Lucy a matching costume. It was a great surprise!
She has been a working therapy dog now for 4 years. She has such a great temperament that Wendy just had to share her with others. As is often the case, Lucy trained her owners rather than the other way around. She loves to dress up all the time, not just for Halloween. She is a huge Kings fan and a Rams fan too. Visit Lucy on Instagram.
Luna – The Cutest Staffie
Meet Luna from the UK.
This cute little staffie dog likes to dress up at Halloween and Christmas. She even features in the annual family photo Christmas card with dog mummy Angel. Luna’s favourite outfits include The Gruffalo, a Minion, and her “I’m with Creepy!” hoodie.
“My name is Luna. I am a Female Staffordshire Bull Terrier. I will be 6 years old on 13th of November. I am brindle and white, with spots like a little piglet.
The stork dropped me with my mama when I was 11 weeks old. I was very small and she took me to bed as I was missing my real mama. Now I am big she says there is no room for her anymore.
I love to play with my ball in the park and take long walks on Hampstead Heath. I have the best fur friends all over London. I love to play and I love to sleep. My favourite food is chicken.
Grandad is great, and I like to follow him around the garden to check his work when I go there for my holidays. Grandma gives me lots of treats when he’s not looking.
My boyfriend is Pepe he is a 9 year old chihuahua. He is very handsome.
I think it’s sad that my breed get a bad reputation as we are 99.9% nanny dogs. I am very friendly and love cuddles. I am very happy and spoilt and definitely living my best life.
Visit Luna and friends on Instagram.
Pancake
Pancake is two years old and belongs to blogger Jupiter Hadley. He is a purebred British shorthair who came from Bulgaria to England to be a stud. However, he didn’t fancy a life of little Pancakes running around, so he went to live with Jupiter and her partner, Dann.
She told me: “Pancake likes dressing up because he loves the warmth, and we love dressing him up because it makes him feel like an important member of the family.
He’s a soppy boy, loves a good cuddle, and we do dress him up on occasions (his birthday, holidays) as he does like it. I think he likes something holding him close – he purrs a lot when put in costumes, but will let you know when he wants out by flopping all about at your feet until you take it off of him.
He’s a coward, afraid of most plants and bugs, but has been gaining courage with years – he can now catch a bug (after an adult had hit it to the ground)!
Huge thanks to Wendy, Angel and Jupiter for allowing me to share these gorgeous photos of their fur baby dogs and cats dressed up for Halloween.
Do you dress your dogs up for Halloween?
Does your feline friend like being in fancy dress?
I’d love to hear about your pets, and if you’d like your dog or cat featured in this Halloween posts then please do contact me.
You may also like to read my new post:
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Such cute pet costumes! My dog is a little terror and tries to eat anything you put on her, so alas, no costumes, though I usually wrangle her into a Halloween themed bandana for a photo.
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Thank you for sharing Pancake!!!
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There is nothing cuter than animals in costumes! And these two seem like wonderful dogs. I tried to place a witches hat on my guinea pig but unsurprisingly it didn’t stay on for long.
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My husband is so against dressing up dogs, but I think they look cute, so long as they are happy. I saw someone had dressed up their cat the other day, they must have a very docile cat, mine would have it off in seconds 🙂
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It’s definately wrong to do anything to an animal if they don’t like it but some pets just seem to love it.
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Lucy does not mind at all being dressed up. In fact, she has more wardrobe options than I do.
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I had a friend whose little dog was the same. It would be quite the treat to see what outfits both of them would wear next. Thanks so much for sharing Lucy with us Wendy.
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These are so cute!! My dog refuses to walk if I put clothes on him. He does whatever he can to get them off.
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It’s only fun when the dog’s actually like it. 🙂
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I love dogs in costumes (as long as they are happy in them). So cute.
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