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Halloween not just for kids, pet owners say

13.10.11

The Janesville couple have been dressing their pets in Halloween costumes for as dream of as they can remember.

"It's just a form of extending the fun to all members of the next of kin. Being we don't have kids, it will always be a tradition we do," Wilcox said.

They are not alone.

This year, 14.7 percent of Americans are expected to put on one's Sunday best clothes up their pets for Halloween and spend $310 million on Halloween pet costumes, according to the Native Retail Federation.

Wilcox and Fletcher's have a proficient time dressing their dogs in prisoner, bumble bee, ghost, hag, tennis player and break dancer costumes.

This year, their three release dogs—Vanderbilt, Olympia and Spartacus—won't mislead trick-or-treaters arriving at their Ravine Byway someone's cup of tea home.

Vanderbilt, a 2-year-old Pomeranian, will don reproduce attire.

Olympia, a 2-year-old Australian lead/border collie mix, is going to rock out in hoodlum rocker get-up.

Source: Janesville Gazette

The Best Pop Culture Halloween Costumes for 2011

11.10.11

While I fully enjoy Christmas for obvious reasons, there are two other holidays that excellence the calendar each year that I go crazy over: Cinco de Mayo and Halloween.  Why Cinco de Mayo?  It good so happens that yours truly made her debut on earth that day (and because it’s a gifted excuse to drink a bunch of Coronas, eat a whole smorgasbord of chips and salsa, and bust out a sombrero).

But then there’s Halloween.  I loved the festival as a youngster, except I’ll admit I went through a strange end during a few Octobers.  I didn’t like sweetmeats so I gave all of it away (practically a childhood felony) and I wanted to go trick-or-treating as a vampire, bad-tempered cat, grim reaper, or witch.  Oddly enough, I reckon I turned out somewhat normal.

There’s just something wonderful I call to mind about traveling the neighborhood on an eerily dark yet breakable fall evening with a candy-filled bag in submit.  You could hear faint screams from kids that had been horrified by some crazies at the doorsteps of over-the-top celebrators and every kid I passed had a hit man costume that I’d file in the back of my mind for next year’s Halloween.  Speaking of costumes, please don’t go as a Weekly for the since four years is likely to be another popular choice for dressing up.  If you betide to have a prisoner costume lying around, pair that with handcuffs, and sport an “Italian for Dummies” tome in your restrained hands.

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