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How does your poodle handle Halloween decorations?
I pulled out my first Halloween decoration today (a lifesized-but-silly-faced ghost scarecrow) and stuck it in the ground while Peggy was focused on something else. Eek! Peggy was horrified! She hopped back so fast she left skid marks in the gravel, and then barked and barked and barked.
She was NOT comforted by the fact that I was standing right next to it, perfectly fine. But when my husband gave it a tap, suddenly she was brave enough to investigate. Typical!
I let her see it from a few different angles:
From the sidewalk below our property? SCARY!
From the path beside our house? Not scary.
Peggy was fine with it all last year at only four or five months old. She didn't even mind when I dressed up as a witch. She did, however, express some concern at the skeleton hands reaching up from a neighbour's lawn. (To be fair, I thought they were a little creepy, too.)
I pulled out my first Halloween decoration today (a lifesized-but-silly-faced ghost scarecrow) and stuck it in the ground while Peggy was focused on something else. Eek! Peggy was horrified! She hopped back so fast she left skid marks in the gravel, and then barked and barked and barked.
She was NOT comforted by the fact that I was standing right next to it, perfectly fine. But when my husband gave it a tap, suddenly she was brave enough to investigate. Typical!
I let her see it from a few different angles:
From the sidewalk below our property? SCARY!
From the path beside our house? Not scary.
Peggy was fine with it all last year at only four or five months old. She didn't even mind when I dressed up as a witch. She did, however, express some concern at the skeleton hands reaching up from a neighbour's lawn. (To be fair, I thought they were a little creepy, too.)