10/31/2026
🎃👻 Happy Halloween from the team at Brown Veterinary!🐾🧡
Halloween is full of costumes, candy, decorations, visitors, and lots of tricks! While we’re busy enjoying the festivities, let’s not forget about the animals who depend on us to keep them safe.
Whether you care for household pets, livestock, exotic animals, wildlife, or sanctuary residents, every animal deserves a safe and stress-free Halloween!
🕸️ A few important Halloween safety reminders:
🍬 Keep treats out of reach: Chocolate, candy, wrappers, artificial sweeteners, and certain seasonal foods can be dangerous to animals.
🎃 Be mindful of decorations: Electrical cords, candles, fake cobwebs, plastic decorations, and small decorative pieces can create choking, entanglement, or injury hazards.
👻 Reduce stress and unfamiliar activity: Costumes, loud noises, doorbells, and unfamiliar visitors can frighten animals. Provide quiet, secure spaces where they can retreat.
🐴 Secure livestock and outdoor animals: Check gates, fencing, stalls, and enclosures. Increased traffic, unfamiliar visitors, and nighttime activity can create unexpected safety risks.
🦎 Protect exotic and specialty animals: Maintain proper temperature, lighting, ventilation, and enclosure security. Avoid exposing sensitive species to excessive noise, flashing lights, or unfamiliar objects.
🐾 Choose costumes carefully: If dressing an animal up, make sure costumes are comfortable, properly fitted, and never restrict breathing, movement, or vision. Never force an animal to wear something that causes distress.
🚪 Prevent accidental escapes: Keep doors, gates, and enclosures securely closed, especially during trick-or-treating and Halloween gatherings.
❤️ Know who to call: Keep your veterinarian’s contact information and the nearest emergency veterinary clinic readily available in case of an accident or unexpected exposure.
🧡 Wishing all our patients, their families, and our fellow animal lovers a happy and safe and spooky holiday!
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