Dog owners. Ready for constant doorbell of Halloween?

[vash]

I dread it. My dog is in training; a solid work in progress. He has cleared several hurdles, but the doorbell is still the sound of death to him. He goes berserk.

I think I’m gonna cut up rotisserie chicken and use the night as a teachable moment.

[crustychief]

Put up a sign on the bell not to ring it. How does pups do with knocking? Or sit out front in a lawnchair for the duration. Chicken is a great idea to motivate. I usually put a sticky note between the bell and the hammer, it muffles the sound enough to not annoy but it still sounds enough to hear.

[rwest]

Was just talking about this with a lady at work and she would just set up a fire pit in the driveway and hang out with friends handing out candy while the dogs chilled inside with no bell ringing.

[AFC-911]

Easy. Don't do Halloween or put out a bowl of candy.

[ckissick]

My dog goes crazy too. Doorbells and raccoons. Maybe we should just turn off the lights so they don't come to our door.

[stomachmonkey]

Around here we all sit outside on the driveway or walkway.

Much easier.

Also let's us socialize with our neighbors.

We are the kind of hood where we have two types of treats, one for kids, the other for adults.

My buddy Dennis across the street usually spends a couple of weeks coming up with a unique concoction for the year.

One year he actually smoked salt for the Margarita.

[ckcarr]

Sit outside. Hand out treats. Drink a couple drinks

Halloween is once a year. It's for kids.

I'm only disappointed that my bats have left for the season, they would have scared the crap out of the kids fluttering all over the front entryway!

[RKDinOKC]

Last year only had like 7 groups come to the door. No big deal.

Worked on training puppy to sit and say "Hello"

Just keep the leash on.

[KFC911]

I wonder what goes through a dawg's mind....you open the front door and there stands a 3' tall, masked grim reaper....or even worse....a 3' tall masked HRC on her broom .

Don't get many T or T'ers here anymore...a fraction of say 15 years ago...

Besides that, nobody is home at my house anyways....I'm out ringing doorbells !

[asphaltgambler]

We board ours for the afternoon/ overnight, he's only 7 months old. We throw a party and entertain trick- o treaters so it's too much goin on at his age.

[mattdavis11]

I don't know what I'm in for. We have the neighbors dog until Wednesday. She's about 8 years old, some sort terrier, maybe staffordshire.

[Crowbob]

Turn out the lights, pull the shades, lock the doors and hide under the covers in the basement.

[ckelly78z]

We used to have hundreds of kids showing up for trick or treat when we lived in a small farming town near nothing. The non-local vans would start rolling in early, and park in the church parking lot to unload the monsters, and goblins for thier yearly haul.

Where we live now, our nearest neighbors are 1/4 mile in each direction, so in 22 years, we haven't had a single doorbell ringer.

[asphaltgambler]

^^^^^^^Maybe cause kids today trick or treat with an app on their cell phone................................sad really.....it's a kid rite of passage......^^^^^^

[David]

We lost a dog two Halloweens ago. I had both openings to the front entryway blocked with gates so the dogs could see the kids at the open front door but not get to the front door so it would be fun for all, so I thought.

Toward the end of the evening a small cowboy was being particularly cute after I put candy in his pumpkin. He pointed into his plastic pumpkin and proclaimed, "there needs to be more chocolate in here!"

As soon as he said that he saw something even more interesting... the two dogs behind me. He bum rushed me toward the dogs and started petting them over the gate. The chocolate lab who was already exited about the whole situation pushed through the gate, out the front door, past the kid's parents (who made no effort to grab her) and was never seen again. It wasn't uncommon for her to go outside the fenced yard so I didn't worry too much about it, I just left the back gate open so she could come back. She never did.

Before I get a bunch of sad replies, I must admit that Lola had gotten to be too much for me after the wife left and I was just about to hand her off to a new family the next weekend so I wasn't too heart broken. The family that never got to know her probably were. And to the family who found her in the street and picked her up, I hope she drove them crazy!

[Jeff Higgins]

At seven months old, this will be Ed's first Halloween. Seven months and 65 pounds already; 65 pounds of the most jubilant, happy, energetic Golden Retriever you've ever seen. Fortunately, he's been playing with all of the neighborhood kids, so they all know him and he knows them. We'll probably just leave him out in the back yard so he can keep an eye on the proceedings, without getting in the middle of all of it. Hopefully the kids don't sneak him too many treats...

[RKDinOKC]

My 2 year old Golden is the same way except she weighs in 10lbs more. Giant puppy around kids, ESPECIALLY if she knows them. On Halloween I leash her so she can just get her head out the front door and leave the wooden door open. She doesn't bark, but gets so excited wiggling around like a puppy, kinda scares the kids that don't know her.