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Pet Halloween Looks

by Kristine Sanchez

Do It Yourself Concepts for Custom-made Traditional Pet Halloween Get-ups

Halloween time is a big production for both trick or treat participants and candy givers. When thinking of how to dress up your kids in the weirdest and ugliest costume possible, consider having one made for your pet too.

Pets in unique Halloween costumes will surely entertain you and the people around. Pets are fun to have around and taking them with you on special occasions is always a pleasure. Although when planning a suitable costume for pets, you have to consider that they can feel comfortable and can function well apart from their scary, morbid, or funny look.

1. Mummy cat: This can be one of the easiest costumes you can have without requiring a seamstress to produce the outfit. Simply, with a medical gauze bandage, you can wrap this elastic band around your cat's body, arms, and legs. To make this costume more Halloween-like by coloring the bandage with brown paint or crayon. Since cats have an instinct to scratch off items attached to them, holding onto them and wrapping them in cloth can suppress their agitation.
2. Scary Shih Tzu: With this style, you have to get your dog ready for a haircut. Teasing your pet's hair, especially on the face, tail, and legs will make your dog weird enough. You can also dye your pet's hair in shades of black, red, and gray to make him look worse. With this alone, your pet instantly becomes a monster.
3. Big Dog Dracula: You can achieve this with a simple black cape and bow tie. Also, dying the eyebrow part to make your pet's head look heart-shaped can add to the fierceness of the look. Putting some red dye on the fangs and lower lip area; instantly have your very own pet Dracula.

Coming up with different concepts and playing dress up with your pets can be a new creative thing you can work on. You can also pair your pets off with your own costume or add different props such as captions on postcards like a cemetery tablet, RIP, or trick or treat sign. Designing your postcard that can be useful for your own costume or Halloween purpose can be done when you order postcards online, or you can search on different movie quotations or famous sayings that are related to Halloween.