I hate halloween.

I gather ALL my animals...horses AND sheep up close to the house...way away from the outside fences and gates...make them stay CLOSE to the house from dusk to broad daylight. The next morning I traverse the fences to pick up all the beer bottles and other junk the PWT's have thrown into my pastures.

JJ- I was burgled while asleep in my bed. It's a very strange feeling...goose bumps even now.

Very good idea Thistle, keep hem close to the house where you can monitor them.
Claire you never, never let a dog off it's leash no matter what the circumstances are especially when it's not even your own pet.
JJ, my Lord how awful and scary. I made sure long ago with double dead bolts, and no glass in my doors that are not laced with a screening material inside the glass, safety glass also I have an alarm on every entrance and all my windows have stuff piled in front of them, on the tables, nick nacks, book, candles. A person would make so much noise breaking in it wouldn't be worth it. Say where was Trixie during all this? She looks fierce enough to have made a fuss. Or bitten a butt...
NOW my biggest compaint about Halloween is dumb people that put costumes on their poor pets and parade them around. Makes me sick.

Ask your pet store for a product called Serenum.
The active ingredient is triptophen (sp?)...same thing that makes one sleepy from turkey.
Great doggie-downers and safe.

You gurlssss...those poems were outstanding! Chatty, this was when my children were 1 and 4...they are now 27 and 30...Trixie wasn't even a geam in her Mother's eye then...heck, her Mother wasn't even a gleam...I

JJ

JJ,
How scarey for you Halloween night no wonder you hate it and the rest of you too.
We don't have many trick or treaters here and I used to miss that.
We have to keep our cats in all afternoon and night. She doesn't like that at all.
Maggie

JJ,
How awful for you and on Halloween night.
There are so few trick or treaters here its hard to do anything.
We all keep our pets indoors though just in case.
Maggie