Though the Internet, this time of year, seems full of photos of dogs dressed as geishas and cats in hats, dressing up your pets for Halloween is a fad that’s not exactly sweeping the continent. In fact, according to Newsday.com:

An Associated Press-Petside.com poll showed that only 8 percent of pet owners plan to dress their animals for Halloween.

The reasons the non-participating pet owners give are pretty much what you’d expect: The animals, cats especially, just won’t stand for it; the owners think it’s demeaning; nobody would see the costumes anyway. (That one is certainly true in my