Halloween and pets – it really can be a trick or a treat!
Whether you love or hate Halloween, it’s becoming increasingly popular. It also offers a great opportunity to interact with your clients from a fun and educational perspective.
It may also mean increased Halloween pet issues, from ingested glow sticks to chocolate toxicity to costume malfunctions.
Either way, I’ve collected a range of Halloween resources from local and overseas sources to help you both get prepared and have some fun.
Want to design your own Halloween images?
If you’re looking for some design inspiration, click here to visit the Canva Halloween Templates Page for some spooky Halloween ideas.
NEW for 2023: Vetstoria Content Pack – Halloween
The team at Vetstoria have assembled a library of fully editable content packs designed to make it super easy for you to educate pet owners and promote your clinic, including one for Halloween.
Their Halloween Content Pack contains Instagram and Facebook posts, email banners, email and text messages, posters, flyers, a video reel template and a hold message script. Click HERE to check them all out.
Halloween Prep for you and your veterinary team
Top 5 Halloween Safety Tips for Vets and Pets from the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center includes two lists based on the most commonly noted problems to help you and your clients prepare for Halloween.
The list for veterinary teams includes:
- Prep for glow stick ingestion
- Prep for chocolate ingestion
- Ask the right questions
- Watch for emesis
- Test sedatives in advance
The list for pet owners includes:
- Lock candy safely away
- Don’t leave glow sticks lying around
- Keep pets identified and visible
- Calm your pet
- Check those costumes
Chocolate Poisoning Calculator
Click here to visit the Chocolate Poisoning Calculator on the Our Pets Health website.
Keep Your Pet Safe – Resources & Ideas
This is a list of resources that you can either share directly with your clients or use as ideas to help you write your own blog post to share with clients.
- Halloween Pet Safety Tips (Dutch)
- 7 Tips for Halloween Pet Safety (Pets4Life)
- Worried about how to keep your pet safe at Halloween? (Vet Around – Sydney Mobile Vet Service)
- Keep your pets safe this Halloween (Brandon Park Vet)
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Top Safety Tips to Keep your Pet Safe at Halloween (Your Vet Online)
- 7 Things You Can Do to Make Halloween Safer for Your Pet (AVMA)
- Halloween Safety Tips for Cats (Life & Cats)
- How to Keep Your Dog Safe on Halloween (Hills)
A Bit of Fun! – Resources & Marketing Ideas
Keen to spook up your marketing with some Halloween-themed promotions?
This list is almost endless! But here are a few of my favourite resources to share on social media with your clients:
- For an Australian flavour: Halloween 2020 Video – The Australian Reptile Park (1 minute & very cute!)
- 53 Best DIY Dog Costumes That Are Paws-itively Perfect for Halloween (Country Living)
- 5 Reasons You Want a Veterinarian on Your Team in a Zombie Apocalypse (AVMA)
- The 70 Absolute Best Pet Costumes We Have Ever Seen (Petful)
- 15 Halloween Dog Treat Recipes (Puppy Leaks)
- 15 Cats In Halloween Costumes That Will Make Your Day (Society19)
For more Halloween ideas, click here to visit Pinterest and type ‘Halloween Pets’ in the search bar
How else do you celebrate and enjoy Halloween with your clients? Share your ideas in the Comments section below.