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When I had my own horse it was one of the happiest times of my life. While there was a lot of work involved in keeping my horse elated and healthy, every job was literally a labor of love. The ultimate reward is that feeling inside your heart when your own horse calls to you and rubs her head on your shoulder as you stand next to her.

I have always loved horses and now that I am horse-less, I spend a lot of time thinking about them. One of my favorite times of year is Halloween and thinking about all the fun costumes to dress a horse in. I have written one long, detailed article “Halloween Costume Ideas for Your Horse and Yourself” which you can read here. After I wrote that particular article though, ideas honest kept popping into my mind and I realized that I needed to write another article on Halloween horse costume ideas for horses and their riders.

Since I continue to have so many different Halloween costume ideas for horses, this article will focus on Halloween costume ideas for spotted horses. If you own or lease a horse that is one of the color breeds who have spots such as Paint, pinto, leopard Appaloosa or Knabstrupper, then I have five relatively simple Halloween costume ideas for your horse; Paint by Number, Connect the Dots, Measles quarantine, Holstein cow and Dalmatian dog.

Halloween Costume Ideas for Spotted Horses #1: Paint by Number

If you have a pinto or Paint horse with a tobiano or overo pattern, you can make use of that fabulous pattern to create a very easy “Paint by Number” Halloween costume. All you will need is your horse and stick-on numbers that are easily seen from about fifteen feet or more away. Place a number on each patch of color on your horse and your horses’ Halloween costume is done.

Now it’s time for your coordinating costume as an artist. You will need a loose shirt with long sleeves and pants which you have splashed and smeared paint on in a few areas. Add one paint brush and artists’ palette and you are now an artist riding your paint by number horse art creation!

Halloween Costume Ideas for Spotted Horses #2: Connect the Dots

You can create a “connect the dots” Halloween costume for your horse if you have an Appaloosa or Knabstrupper horse with a leopard pattern. This works for horses whose coats have that flea-bitten look as well. All you need to do is win a marker or paint that will easily wash out of your horses coat and then use it to connect the dots on several areas of your horse’s body. If you are riding your horse, obviously you will be unable to connect the dots on your horse’s torso where the saddle will be but you can connect the dots on your horse’s shoulders, neck, hips and even face. Exercise a bright color marker or paint and connect the dots in some sort of pattern.

You can also wrap your horses legs in several different colored leg wraps to make it look like pencils or crayons on his legs. The main color wrap can be yellow with a pink eraser (wrap) at the top and then a tan or peach color wrap at the bottom to look like the inside of the pencil. The “lead” of the pencil can be a piece of electrical tape attached at the bottom to look like the lead. The leg wraps are optional but a cute touch.

Your coordinating Halloween costume can be your favorite riding outfit along with a giant “marker” in the color you used to create the connect the dot pattern on your horse. This giant marker can be created with the cardboard tube from a roll of paper towels, stuffed with newspaper and covered with construction paper in a color that will do your marker look authentic. The tip of your homemade marker can be created from any round object covered in either construction paper or colored electrical tape and attached at the waste of your giant cardboard tube.

Halloween Costume Ideas for Spotted Horses #3: Measles Quarantine

The measles quarantine Halloween costume plan is for the same horses as idea #2; Appaloosa or Knabstrupper horses with a leopard pattern. The idea for this costume is simple; the spots on your horse’s coat suggest that he has measles or chicken pox. Create a sign that says “Quarantine: This horse has measles” and hang it around your horse’s neck so it rests on his chest. Cut out a large piece of cardboard from a box or use foam core poster board in a square or rectangular shape. Use a bright black or red marker or paint to write the words so they can be easily read from a distance. Punch a hole at the top corner of each side of the trace, tie cord in each hole and attach around your horse’s neck. If necessary, you can enhance your horse’s spots with washable red non-toxic paint.

To create your coordinating costume, dress as a doctor or nurse in green surgical scrubs and mask. Wear a stethoscope around your neck and carry a doctor bag with MD stenciled on it. You can spend the doctor bag toy that is made by Fisher Designate Toys available from Toys ‘R’ Us. It includes all the doctor tools such as a stethoscope, thermometer and more. Or you can expend any handheld black bag and stencil MD on the front of it.

Halloween Costume Ideas for Spotted Horses #4: Holstein Cow

Obviously a black and white Holstein cow Halloween costume will work best for a Paint or pinto horse that is already black and white. In fact you won’t need to do anything to your horse except for attaching a giant pink udder. For safety’s sake, I suggest you add the pink udder to your saddle blanket so that it hangs near your horse’s underbelly. Reduce two pieces of pink felt in an udder pattern shape which consists of a colossal circle with four hanging teats. Make it big so that when you attach one fraction of the udder shape to each side of your horse, on your saddle blanket, it will hang down far enough to look like an udder.

Your coordinating Halloween costume can go either one of two different ways. You can dress as a milk maid with your hair in braids and in a dress or you can dress as a farmer in blue overalls. You will need a metal milk pail for both costumes. Write the word milk on it with paint.

Halloween Costume Ideas for Spotted Horses #5: Dalmatian Dog

This costume idea will work best for horses with a leopard Appaloosa coat pattern. If your horse’s spots are black, that’s even better though there are liver-colored Dalmatians so if your horses spots are a shade of brown, this costume idea will work for your horse. Create a giant “dog” collar for your horse out of red fabric. If you have the proper tools, you can originate it out of red fake leather but this is more difficult so I suggest using a thick red fabric or red felt. Cut a wide strip, about five inches wide and long enough to go all the way around your horse’s neck. Attach a Velcro fastener or other fastener so the “collar” will stay around your horse’s neck. Next, crop out a large round circle (you can exercise a large bowl as a guide for a perfect circle) from foam core poster board and write your horse’s name on it with gloomy marker. Punch a hole in the circle “trace” and using twine, attach the tag to the collar.

To go along with your Dalmatian horse, you can dress yourself as a Dalmatian too by using a white t-shirt and sad felt pen to make spots on it and then creating a collar for yourself out of the same red fabric and foam core poster board you used to create your horse’s ‘”dog” collar.

The Halloween costume ideas for horses in this article are basic and simple but only if you have a spotted horse such as a Paint, pinto, leopard Appaloosa or Knabstrupper. By using one of these five Halloween costume ideas for your horse, perhaps you will even win a ribbon at your local Halloween horse show this year.

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Dog clothing is something that most people are either all for or all against – there seems to be little room for debate. The truth is, dog clothing has been all the rage in the United States for quite some time. Nobody seems to know for sure why, but celebrity dog owners surely are a viable candidate. Regardless of why, we should turn away from these dog clothes and return these poor pooches to their former glory. Here are five good reasons why dog clothes should be eliminated with pet dogs.

Paris Hilton Did It - There are plenty of good reasons to do something, but doing something “because a celebrity does it” is rarely ever a good one. The mere fact that Paris Hilton dresses her dogs to look like small children is reason enough to me to leave the dog clothing on the shelf of your local doggie boutique. If you were a dog, would you want to be a fashion accessory?

Dogs Can and Will Become Spoiled – Though many dogs will embrace the whole “doggie fashion” movement, it is not because they feel as though they are styling and profiling. The reason is because they are likely spoiled in every part of their lifestyle – food, sleep, lack of exercise and the like. Dogs get spoiled unbiased like people do, and any dog wearing a 50K necklace is bound to have some entitlement issues.

Your Cute Doggie Will Eventually Need to Poop – Imagine if you will an adorable Maltese wearing a charming three piece dog suit. Imagine the attention that he draws as he saunters along in his fashionable dog clothing. Imagine their faces when the Maltese then needs to poop. I rest my case.

You Male Dog Will Become Emasculated all Over Again - It is bad enough our adorable little boy dogs have their equipment taken away. They should not have to endure wearing feminine looking dog clothing that makes them look like a girl. Just because your doggie outfit has him in a tie, it does not mean that he looks masculine to his fellow dude dogs. Don’t do this to your male dogs!

Plainly Put, It Can Not Be Very Comfortable – Dog clothing is a poor fashion idea for the dog, but it also would seem to be very gloomy for a dog covered in hair. Adding clothes on top of their thick coats of fur seems as though it would be simply horrible. If you had hair all over your body like a dog, you likely would go natural as well. Don’t form your dog uncomfortable like that.

While some of the dog outfits are rather cute as a one time thing, dressing your dog in that way every single day seems more like doggie torture. Let your pet dog wear what the good Lord gave them, and they are likely to be much happier in the long run. They don’t know that they are naked, so I doubt they care much anyway.

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Pets can dress up also during the Halloween season. These ten easy to understand and informative articles are worth a read for ideas and suggestions to dress your pet, be they a dog or guinea pig.

Homemade Halloween Dog Costumes that Rock by Associated Content Producer Jennifer Claere. Offers classics from pirates to Star Wars with easy to follow instructions and easy to find materials.

5 Truly Unique Halloween Costumes for Your Dog by Associated Affirm Producer Jason Lindholm. A humorous articles and truly unusual ideas to dress up your dog as a cat to giving it an opposite personality change. Stand aside current ideas; make plot for something truly different.

The Top 7 Halloween Costumes for Dogs by Jetlag Democracy. Funny. Smartly written and offers another set of unique ideas from dragons to different animals (such as a zebra for a white dog). Silly look at one person’s outlook on dressing up the family pet.

Seven Ideas for Dog and Owner Halloween Costumes by Associated Content Producer A. Hermitt. If you are talking your dog along with you, why not both of you dress up for the holiday. This article offers superior ideas that you and your pooch can share.

Halloween Cat Costumes Your Cat Won’t Completely Abhor You For by Associated Grunt Producer Veronica Harmonica. Seven good ideas as well as shopping sites to help you dress up your feline friend so they will not acquire a grudge against you.

Making a Halloween Costume for your Pet by Associated Relate Producer Jenna Hansen. Offers suggestions and ideas as well as places to shop. This is a good article for those just starting to gather ideas on how to dress up Fido.

Top 5 Halloween Costumes Sites for your Dog by Associated Content Producer Alicia Bodine. This article explores different sites while giving a overview of some of the costumes offered as well as price ranges. This is a good go to article for those who cannot sew, but still wish to dress up their dog.

Find the Perfect Halloween Costumes for Pets by Associated Content Producer Amy Curran. Offers suggestions where to buy and how to shop for your pet’s costumes. Shiny and concise best describe this article.

Halloween Costumes for Expansive Dogs: From Clowns, to Superheroes to Hawaiian by Associated Scream Producer Dana. Offer five ideas and suggestions for the mountainous dogs in your life. This easy to read article also gives a how-to dress your dog and what accessories will fit them best.

Halloween Safety for Pets by Associated Content Producer Beth Hoffman. Here are ten ways to support your pet good from costumes to treats. It is a great article with estimable suggestions as it is not all treats for the family pet.

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With dogs becoming fully fledged members of our families, it’s vital that they be included in holiday celebrations. And what’s extra enjoyable than Halloween! I’ve put together ten very good resources to make positive you have the ideal dressed dog on the block. Be certain to have some pet friendly treats on hand and remind the children not to give fido people today candy.

Halloween Costumes for Huge Dogs: From Clowns, to Superheroes to Hawaiians Toy breeds get most of the attention when it comes to playing dress up, but massive dogs want to have enjoyable too. Check out Dana’s article on five tremendous idea’s for larger breeds!

Seven Ideas for Dog and Owner Halloween Costumes Friends, siblings, & spouses like to dress up in coordinating costumes, so why wouldn’t you contain your favorite canine in your plans. A. Hermitt gives us seven choices for owner/dog combos!

5 Genuinely Distinctive Halloween Costumes for Your Dog Jason Lindholm gives five distinctive idea’s for your dog this year. Click here to uncover out the straightforward way to make a signature dog!

Halloween Safety for Pets This is a ought to read by Beth Hoffman if you plan to dress up your pets. We don’t want a enjoyable Halloween to turn into a puppy emergency!

Homemade Halloween Costume Ideas for Your Dog If you are on a tight spending budget, but don’t want fido to be left out you can give them a fantastic and basic homemade costume. Tricia Goss explains how!

Homemade Halloween Dog Costumes that Rock This is an additional outstanding article of homemade items. It is specially great if you discovered a well-liked costume like Darth Vadar, but they do not have it in the proper size! Jennifer Claerr walks you via making your 1 Darth!

Dracula Halloween Pet Costume You Can Make Your self Ever referred to your pooch as a small vampire? Author RS can walk you via making a custom Dracula costume, which includes directions on measuring for a incredible fit.

Putting on the Dog – What the Fashionable Hound is Wearing, Eating and Sleeping On Does your doggy want to be the ultimate diva for Halloween? Make positive you memorize Kathryn Nichols article on what fashionable dogs are wearing to make certain you do not commit any fashion faux paws!

Pet Halloween Costume Review: Pumpkin Pet Costume for Dogs Everybody has seen the classic pumpkin costume for pups, but are they worth the dollars? SummerIsEnding offers a review of what parts of the costume worked, and what didn’t.

Halloween Pet Costumes And lastly, what if you do not have time to make a Yoda costume your self? Where do you get 1 made for dogs? Jennifer Elbin has put together some links to on the net retailers as well as reviews of the huge box stores.

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Have you been attempting to figure out how to dress up your four-legged friend for Halloween night this 12 months? If you would like to consist of your doggy in the holiday spirit but have not been able to figure anything particular out then these articles have some awesome costume hints. You can use a single of theirs or use 1 of these perfect good ideas to inspire your own innovative doggy costume endeavor.

five Really Special Halloween night Outfits for Your Pup- Jason Lindholm’s guide has five fantastically resourceful canine costume hints that you can make or purchase.

Super Lovable Homemade Super Hero Outfits for Tiny Canines- In this post Jaipi Sixbear has a number of adorable techniques and suggestions for turning your favourite pup into a Super Pup.

five Low cost and Straightforward Canine friend Fancy dress costumes- The title of this report by Ebner Relatives is pretty self explanatory, listing five adorable but low-priced and hassle-free Halloween night pup outfits.

Halloween night Outfits for Massive Canine- In this guide by Fooditalia she uses her experience dressing up her St. Bernard and Newfoundland to brainstorm for additional fabulous hints on how to dress up your major pet dog for Halloween night.

Halloween night is Enjoyable Again for the Spouse and children Doggie- Jenny Fick’s write-up has some certainly entertaining and artistic recommendations for such as your pet dog in the Halloween night festivities this 12 months.

Additional Humongous K9 Halloween night Outfits for the Giant in Your Relatives- Nicole M. Braddock’s content helps you shift your four-legged friend costume thoughts from teeny tiny puppy princesses to doggy giants and trolls. The costume concepts in this write-up are geared specifically towards considerable doggie owners and fancy dress costumes that are lovable and intelligent for their truly enormous canines.

Homemade Halloween night Canine Outfits that Rock- Jennifer Claerr’s review delivers a couple of very good concepts for lovable and hip fancy dress costumes that you and your Halloween night Pup will love.

Halloween night Fancy dress costumes for Huge Canine: From Clowns, to Superheroes to Hawaiians- In Dana’s wonderful document she has some truly intelligent, sweet, and fresh options for vast breed four-legged friend outfits.

Halloween night Outfits for Your Pet!- This review by Darlene Michaud can provide many suggestions on how you can costume your four-legged friend this yr. There are suggestions in this piece for sewing, crafting, making use of discovered items, and purchasing amazing Halloween night outfits for your favourite puppy.

Sweet Pet Costume Opinions for Your Tiny Pup- In this guide by Nicole M. Braddock there a couple of adorable solutions on how to believe up the ideal costume for teeny tiny pup.

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