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"The Guilford County Animal Shelter offers a few Pet Safety tips for the upcoming Halloween Festivities:*No treats, candy is for trick-or-treaters, not for your pets. Chocolate in all forms-especially dark or baking chocolate-can be very dangerous for dogs and cats. Candies containing the artificial sweetener xylitol can also cause problems. If you do suspect your pet has ingested something toxic, please call your veterinarian immediately.*If you do dress up your pet, make sure the costume isn't annoying or unsafe. It should not constrict the animal's movement or hearing, or impede his ability to breathe, bark or meow. Make sure there are no small pieces your pet could swallow or choke on.*A carved pumpkin certainly is festive, but pets can easily knock a lit pumpkin over and cause a fire, especially those curious kittens. And though they aren't toxic a pumpkin could cause your pet to have a stomach ache if digested.*Keep your pets in a separate room away from the front door during peak trick-or-treating hours. Too many strangers can be scary and stressful for pets and you don't want them darting out of the door.*Makes sure all of your pets have their proper IDs and Identification Tags. If your pet was to get startled or get away from you, you'll always want to make sure that you can find and identify your loved ones! Tags &amp; collars can fall off or be removed, but Guilford County Animal Shelter offers microchip implants daily between 2pm-3pm for only $15!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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