It is of course Halloween on Monday, but people, what are you doing to your best friends? We had an interesting report from the lovely people at Go.<\/a>Compare\u2019s<\/a> <\/a>pet<\/a> insurance<\/a> about the costumes you humans have been searching to find for your pets. From a pet point of view, it doesn\u2019t make for happy reading. Now, I know I have a Christmas jumper that matches one of Mum\u2019s, but I so often feel sorry for dogs who spend half their lives trying to decide what outfit to wear. Of course, we aren\u2019t all blessed with the beautiful coat that I wear every day, and I know from Shadow how much some of you must feel the cold, but let\u2019s just look at your most popular choices of costume for Halloween \u2013 if your searches are anything to go by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The top spot for a cat is a pumpkin. Oh the indignity. I suppose on the other paw they should be grateful, the top choice for dogs is a spider outfit. People, even famous human writers have made clear that \u2018Four legs good\u2019. At the time they mistakenly thought two legs might be better, but no one ever mentioned eight legs being an improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m more distressed about the second place choices. For a dog the second place is pumpkin, so no surprises there – except, for cats the choice is gingerbread. How come owners think of sweet things when they think of their cat, but it doesn\u2019t even rank in the top ten for dogs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please don\u2019t tell Dad that at number seven for dogs was a panda outfit. He loves pandas. Can you imagine what it would be like if he thought he could combine the best of both worlds and have both me and a panda? It just doesn\u2019t bear thinking about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyway, as the lovely people rightly point out, if you are going to get an outfit, do buy the right size and make sure they are comfortable. Use a tape measure to check sizing before you buy. Have a great time and if you have to force the indignity of a costume on your dog or cat, then please send us a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s Halloween and some humans dress their animals up – what do you think are the top searches for costumes?<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Top Spot<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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