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Posted : 11/1/2006 10:34:51 AM

I raced home from work and took Max out for a walk. Then I put him back in his crate which I felt terrible about. He stayed in it barking for most of the two hours I gave out candy. He loves little kids, but I thought he might get a bit overwhelmed at all the action, and the kids might be scared of him. He also doesn't really like men. At 8 I went in, let him out, and gave him a bone. Millie stayed upstairs with my mom where she couldn't see outside.

cyclefiend2000

Posted : 11/1/2006 10:36:01 AM

we crated them part of the time. amelia was still getting worked up everytime the doorbell rang though, so i took them both out to the back yard and we had quite a long clicker training session in the dark. the dogs seemed to enjoy that.

rwbeagles

Posted : 11/1/2006 11:03:19 AM

We took the kids out so the pups stayed in thier crates. The adult 2 were outside in the dog yard...they are unflappable and don't really care who's outside the fenceline lmao. When we got home we let all out for a good run in the big yard. They were WIRED becuase of the cold weather...well, cold for here! Autumn makes then frolicky.

DeAnna Haase

Posted : 11/1/2006 11:10:30 AM

I guess I am the scrooge..as I simply turned out the lights and we stayed in the family room and watched a Halloween movie.
Halloween is my daughters birthday, and she turned 18 this year. We ordered a nice dinner in using a service(something we had never done before), let her open her presents, did the cake thing and then off she went with her friends =) My youngest daughter went out trick or treating with a group of friends and we watched the movie.
We have tried Halloween with the dogs..two of them do fine out and about on Halloween night but all three freak when goblins show up on our doorstep. Annie is the worst, she can't even handle a person in costume in broad daylight..let alone at night and at HER house. It's too stressfull for everyone.

rwbeagles

Posted : 11/1/2006 11:14:35 AM

I was impressed by the amount of dogs (and rare ones kinda) we saw when we went trick or treating..."helping" their people give out candy lol! I saw a Brussells Griffon, a HUGE Powder Puff Crested, a totally gorgeous Samoyed, a very sweet Cairn Terrier, a Shih Tzu, and several shaggy mixed breed dogs. My son was very excited to see the "puppies" and he was always looking for one even in house where there weren't any lol. This is big for him because before he wasn't all that interested and a little stand offish around dogs. Ellie has really helped him overcome that...she has claimed him as 'her boy'.

BTW, It's always funny to know what people's dogs are...the Brussells woman actually jumped up and down because I knew what her dogs breed was LMAO! Very funny.

cyclefiend2000

Posted : 11/1/2006 11:26:11 AM

ORIGINAL: spiritdogs

We watched TV. My BF and I created a temporary table out of a big dog crate, placed it at the top of the driveway, covered it with a tablecloth, placed a halloween candle on it, and set out four big trays of candy, for goblins to take on the "honor system". No doorbells, no barking, no crating the four dogs with marrow bones, just a comfy cozy night with everyone in the same room in their snuggies.

that is a nice idea. we may try something like this next year. [

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Ruth

Posted : 11/1/2006 12:12:52 PM

We practiced doorbell manners! It's a good opportunity since we don't usually have a parade of strangers at the door. Our system is that when people come, Ace gets leashed and tethered to the hall closet door. From there he can see the visitors but he's far enough away that he can't get near them and it's not scary to kids or parents that there is a black dog there. Thanks to dehydrated chicken strips, he is getting so much better about presenting himself and sitting still for leashing, but by the end of the evening he was very barky -- barking at phantom trick-or-treaters (I think he was trying to con me into dispensing treats by pretending someone was there) and barking at some kids while he was tethered and I was giving them candy. Still, he did well overall.

spiritdogs

Posted : 11/1/2006 12:22:16 PM

ORIGINAL: cyclefiend2000

ORIGINAL: spiritdogs

We watched TV. My BF and I created a temporary table out of a big dog crate, placed it at the top of the driveway, covered it with a tablecloth, placed a halloween candle on it, and set out four big trays of candy, for goblins to take on the "honor system". No doorbells, no barking, no crating the four dogs with marrow bones, just a comfy cozy night with everyone in the same room in their snuggies.

that is a nice idea. we may try something like this next year. []

Yeah, it's not that we, or our dogs don't like kids, but there's no sense risking someone getting out ( Fergie likes to greet people at the door, but it's hard to watch a 6 pound dog with three others, and all the kids LOL). Plus, if the kids stay up the driveway, no one trips/falls, no one gets scared by a too friendly dog, and there's a minimal amount of barking. By the way, all the candy disappeared by 9:00 pm. Usually, we don't get many who will come down our dark drive, so we figure more kids had treats this way :-)

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Terri

Posted : 11/1/2006 12:47:30 PM

I guess I am the scrooge..as I simply turned out the lights and we stayed in the family room and watched a Halloween movie.

I did the same thing without the Halloween movie. I just didn't feel like doing Halloween this year, so I didn't bring out any decorations or get any candy. I know it would've been great training for my dogs to have the doorbell ring over and over again, but I was not in the mood to deal with it last night.

BTW, DeAnna, I mentioned to my sister that I was being a Scrooge this year and she informed me that "you can only be a Scrooge at Christmas, at Halloween you're just a b****".[

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jode88

Posted : 11/1/2006 12:58:22 PM

This was an excellent opportunity to practice doorbell manners. Sam aced it! I didnt have to leash him or anything. We both answered the door, i put him in a sit/stay gave out candy then gave him a treat for being good. He broke the sit/stay a few times but just sniffed the kids that stuck their hands out trying to pet him.

greg petry

Posted : 11/1/2006 2:54:45 PM

We just used baby gates and put them in the kitchen, which from you can see the door, so they got to see who it was and were confined so we could deliver candy easily, it worked fine.=)

jennie_c_d

Posted : 11/1/2006 3:39:34 PM

Fortunately, we live pretty far out. The trick or treaters all left for greener pastures (er.... more houses?) early, before I even got home from work. We had a normal evening.

tashakota

Posted : 11/1/2006 3:46:54 PM

heh, BF and I took two of our 4 dogs to a Howl-o-ween Fun Match in Indy. Kota went as a crossing guard, he has a reflective vest. Shadow went, well, she was supposed to be a zebra, but the white hairspray stuff was more gray on her black fur. So she looked more skeletal. heh. I went as a bunny and BF went in his karate uniform. We live on a busy highway so I wasn't worried about kids knocking on the door. We had fun though!

gayle

Posted : 11/1/2006 5:28:42 PM

me and berserker ran around the house like idiots. we got left behind when the husband and the kid went trick or treating , so we made our own fun. i was dissapointed by the lack of trick or treaters, we only got 2, but really impressed by how calm berserk was when we answered the door. he is a door jumper/barker so i had him leashed all night and had intended to hold him back while the kids got their candy, but i was shocked i didnt have to, he just sat between my legs and looked, the last trick or treater was a boy about 10 and he didnt want to leave, he just wanted to pet him, so sweet.

Kiera Carlson

Posted : 11/1/2006 6:42:05 PM

My DD was Dorothy, and Rudy was Toto! Aren't they adorable? Actually we walked him on his leash around our small cul-de-sac (8 houses), and then dropped him off at home before doing the serious trick-or-treating!

What did you do with your dog on Halloween?