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Whether you plan to trick-or-treat with you dog or just want to hand out candy with your cat, a new costume for your pet is likely on your Halloween shopping list. Because what's cuter than canines and kitties in costume? Not much!

Our friends at PetSmart have an excellent array of pet Halloween costumes. If you're looking for something adorable, hysterical, or even a little spooky for your cat or dog, you're sure to find just the right costume, and one lucky Paw Nation reader will win a free costume of his or her choice, plus a Halloween-themed dog toy or cat toy.

Go with a fabulous, funny costume like the Fluffy Lobster, or keep it simple with a cute little collar, like the Ghost Emblem cat collar.

To enter, leave a confirmed comment below telling us about your Halloween plans.

The comment must be left before 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday, September 28, 2010.

You may enter only once.

One winner will be selected in a random drawing.

One winner will receive the PetSmart pet costume of his or her choice plus a Halloween toy (valued at up to $22.99).

Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.

Click here for complete official rules. Winner will be notified by e-mail, so be sure to provide a valid address!

If we were taking a quick poll of favorite childhood toys, it's likely that a number of Fisher-Price classics would make the list. Who among us doesn't have fond memories of pushing around a Corn Popper or making up songs on a Classic Xylophone?

Now, your playful pooch can have the same experience. Sort of. Fisher-Price has just entered the world of dog toys, reinventing favorites to be more pet-friendly -- including adding a peanut butter scent!. The brightly colored toys are just hitting shelves at PetSmart this month.

We checked out the large Ruff-A-Stack and Xylobone ($11.99), as well as a small Chatter Pup Telebone ($7.99). Each of these toys features two separate soft parts (one with a squeaker) connected by a rope. We thought the toys looked super cute, but figured they last about a minute against our power chewing canine testers. We were thrilled to be wrong.

As soft toys with two parts, these have proven to be fantastic for interactive play. We can toss them across the room and swing them around without worrying about breaking anything, and dogs are just crazy for them. The pooches seem to be really attracted to the peanut butter smell, though, so there's been a significant amount of concentrated chewing, but the toys are holding tough!

Bottom line: Although they aren't indestructible, these nostalgia-inducing toys are more durable than they look and were certainly fun for the four-legged testers. And with large and small sizes available in many of the toys, these will work with a wide variety of dogs.

Think your pet has what it takes to be a star? Find out for sure with PetSmart's newest contest: Scare Your Way Into a PetSmart Commercial!

If you've got a frightening feline or bone-chilling boxer -- or a pet that can fake it with a little artful costuming -- head over to the PetSmart Facebook page and click on the Contests tab. Then you'll just need to upload a photo of your pet in his or her best Halloween costume for a chance at the grand prize: your pet getting a cameo in a 2011 PetSmart commercial and $1,000 cash. More cash and gift card prizes will be awarded for runners up, random daily winners and pets receiving the highest weekly votes. You have until October 27 to enter.

Is all your pet stuff -- chewies, brushes, etc. -- junking up your otherwise attractive home? Never fear! Martha is here! The domestic diva and Petsmart are launching Martha Stewart Pets, a collection of pet essentials featuring Martha's classic style and classy colors. Grooming and bathing supplies, toys, collars, leashes and the delicately-described "waste management tools" are a few of the items that will be included.

Standouts include crochet chew toys ($9.99) and a grooming/bathing tote ($19.99), which can be stuffed chock full of the accessories (sold separately) you need to keep your pet looking good.

The collection will be available at Petsmart today with prices ranging from $4.99 to $59.99. Will you be scooping up anything new for your pup?

PetSmart encourages customers to bring their pets to the store when they shop. But when it comes to employees' pets? Not so much.

PetSmart gave New Jersey resident Eric Favetta the axe after he brought his 3-year-old Belgian malinois, Gizmo, to work with him one night, the (Newark) Star-Ledger reported.

According to the Star-Ledger, Favetta, a former dog handler at military units in Afghanistan and Bahrain, had worked as an operations manager at PetSmart since July 2008. Last spring, because of his success cleaning up the Wayne, N.J., store, he was transferred to the busy Seacaucus, N.J., store to help make improvements.

One night in December, PetSmart staff asked Favetta to work a special overnight shift to get the store spiffed up for a viewing the following day by potential business partners. "I brought my dog with me because I knew if I didn't, he would have been home alone all day and all night until I returned home at 6 a.m. the next day," Favetta told the Star-Ledger.

Favetta put Gizmo in the store's empty daycare facility and got to work. Two weeks later, he was fired for "theft of service."

PetSmart spokeswoman Jessica White told the Star-Ledger that the daycare service is an item the company charges for, just like the toys and treats on the store shelves. Using the facilities for free, she said, qualified as theft.

For three weeks this December, two female black Labrador retrievers named Bella and LaiLa spent the holidays with strangers when a kennel returned them to the wrong families, reports the Seattle Times.

"It was very upsetting," Bella's owner, Stacey Peterson tells Paw Nation. "When we found out the dog we had was not our dog, we were worried because we didn't know where our dog was."

"I was totally shocked," LaiLa's owner, Anne Galasso, tells Paw Nation. "It's like picking up the wrong kid from day care."

But neither Peterson nor Galasso personally picked up their dogs from PetSmart PetsHotel in Issaqua, Wash., where Bella had been boarded and LaiLa had spent one day in doggy daycamp in early December. "If we would have been there to pick her up, I like to think it might have been different," says Peterson. Bella was picked up by Peterson's parents, and Galasso's niece retrieved LaiLa.

That's when the adventure really began for LaiLa. Peterson's parents brought her to Canada and boarded her in a kennel near their home. When Peterson and her husband returned from Europe on December 23 and were reunited with the dog they assumed was Bella, they knew immediately something was different. "Her ears were sitting differently, she walked differently and acted differently," Peterson recalls. "We were trying to understand why she seemed so different, but we never imagined it was because she wasn't our dog." They thought perhaps Bella was angry at them for being gone for 17 days.

Want to pamper your pooch this holiday season? Of course you do -- who doesn't? Just because our furry friends can't count down the days to Christmas on the calendar doesn't mean they won't appreciate a bevy of beautiful gifts on Christmas morning!

This year, our friends at Petsmart want to make it easy for you -- they've teamed up with us to do a fabulously festive giveaway for a lucky Paw Nation reader, who will receive a Good Dog Mailbox Dog Stocking filled with unique Petsmart holiday gifts: one Rein-Dog Costume with Lights, the new Plush Snowman with Rope and Plush Christmas Squeaker Mat.

• To enter, leave a confirmed comment below telling us about a holiday tradition you share with your pet.
• The comment must be left before 5 p.m. ET on Friday, December 11, 2009.
• You may enter only once.
• One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
• One winner will receive a Good Dog Mailbox Dog Stocking, one Rein-Dog Costume with Lights, one Plush Snowman with Rope and one Plush Christmas Squeaker Mat (valued at $39.96).
• Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.
• Click here for complete Official Rules. Winner will be notified by e-mail, so be sure to provide a valid address!

This week's giveaway has come at the perfect time. Our friends at Petsmart want to give a lucky Paw Nation reader a pet Halloween costume of their choice!

We know you love dressing up your pets (make sure to show us how much by submitting a photo!), and Petsmart has tons of fantastic costumes to choose from. From popular Disney characters like Tinkerbell and Mickey Mouse to traditional costumes like witches and jesters, you'll have a scream picking out the perfect costume for your furry friend. (Whether that furry friend enjoys it quite as much has yet to be determined.)

• To enter, leave a confirmed comment below telling us what you'd like to dress your pet as.
• The comment must be left before 5pm ET on Tuesday, October 13, 2009.
• You may enter only once.
• One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
• One winner will receive one Petsmart pet costume of their choice (valued at up to $19.99).
• Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.
• Click here for complete Official Rules. Winner will be notified by email, so be sure to provide a valid address!

In the meantime, check out Paw Nation's gallery of our favorite user-submitted pet Halloween costumes!

What's more fun than a box of kittens? Not much, but the Petsmart Basket we're giving away this week on Paw Nation comes close!

The Petsmart Basket is chock full of goodies that you and your cat will love. It includes: Feline GREENIES® Dental Treat; Blue Buffalo Spa Select Indoor Sensitive Skin Formula; KONG® Refillable Catnip Toys; KONG Wubba Cat Toy; Scratchers Welcome Scratch Mat; The Ultimate Cat Lover; Whisker City® Paisley Breakaway Cat Collar; and the Whisker City® Reflective Cat Leash.

And, entering couldn't be easier!

• To enter, leave a confirmed comment below telling us what something your cat just loves to play with.
• The comment must be left before 5pm ET on Tuesday, September 29, 2009.
• You may enter only once.
• One winner will be selected in a random drawing.
• One winner will receive one Petsmart Basket (contents listed above; valued at $68.88).
• Open to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and Canada (excluding Quebec) who are 18 and older.
• Click here for complete Official Rules. Winner will be notified by email, so be sure to provide a valid address!