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Do you dress your dog up for Halloween. Of course Chet doesn’t have more than his everyday collar and his dress up for special occasions collar. Being a no nonsense professional he doesn’t go in for dressing up or costumes. I don’t much any more although Diana and Freyja do have holiday themed collars. But I used to dress the dogs up for special occasions and holidays. The following are some Halloween photos of years and dogs past.

This is Caesar in his senior years, being a good sport and volunteering to pull Santa’s sleigh. Yes, sunglasses because here it is often in the low 70s and sunny on Christmas day. Halloween can even be approaching 80 so sometimes costumes aren’t so much fun.

Ramses and Candy as Santa and a Christmas tree.

Ramses was a good sport about dressing up, especially hats so he had quite a few costumes for Halloween. Here is Ramses as Superdog. I think this might have been his favorite costume.

Fire Hydrant:

One year I took advantage of having an all black dog and I got some non-toxic white hair spray paint and painted a white stripe down his back to make him into a very large skunk:

Mr Pumpkinhead:

Halloween witch:

This is Diana pawPrints in one of her costumes:

Diana doesn’t like hats but is used to a harness so she got some full body costumes. Here she is a Hot Dog. Her first costume was a saddle with cowboy rider costume but I don’t have a photo of it and I think she has outgrown it. She was only a year old that first Halloween. It was a joke as my Dad always called her “the horse.” It is difficult to get a Halloween costume for a 90 lb dog. We don’t do Halloween anymore because we don’t walk my parent’s neighborhood any more. Most of Ramses’ old dog friends have passed and we don’t see the neighbors like we used to. Since my parents stopped walking the dogs we don’t do it any more when we visit. I’ve never dressed Freyja up

I do have costumes for Diana, Freyja and Dolly should the occasion arise. I have a black Lion’s mane for Diana and for the two partners in crime I have angel wings and a halo and devil wings and horns. Whether Freyja or Dolly get to be angels or devils depends as they can be both good and …. challenging.

I always meant to make Diana a Wonder Woman costume but never got around to it and there doesn’t seem much point now. I might still do it after some of the house stuff gets finished. She is after all, Diana pawPrints, the Wonder Puppy.