It’s the time of year once again when people like to dress up as ghouls and ghosts and dispense candy to children who come knocking at the door. For animals though, Halloween is usually a time when they have to stay indoors, locked away for fear that they’ll be scared by all of the comings and goings, or want to run out and play with all of the children.

Of course, some dog owners (and you know who you are) believe that their dogs should be as involved in Halloween as anybody else and insist on dressing their dogs in Halloween costumes. With the dog clothes market growing every year (mostly in America it has to be said) Halloween costumes for dogs are now available in many different styles and sizes.

Here are some of our favourite Halloween costumes for dogs that we’ve seen this year. Let us know too if you’ve dressed your dog in fancy dress, either for Halloween or just for fun.

A Dream Dogs week long list wouldn’t be a Dream Dogs week long list without at least one contentious inclusion. This, the last in our week long series of funny YouTube videos featuring dogs, doesn’t actually feature a dog. Well, not a real one at least.

In this video, a young girl has set her video camera up in her bedroom with the intention of staging a dog show with her stuffed toys. What happens next has the vital ingredients for a funny video – it’s unexpected, and it involves pain and humiliation for the person involved.

Keep your peepers peeled for another weeklong series of the best funny dog videos on Dream Dogs soon.

It’s day 4 of Dream Dogs’ week long celebration of funny YouTube dog videos. In this one, the proud owner of a boxer dog has taken it to the beach for a training session.

His owner throws him a ball and wants him to bring it back, but typically he doesn’t do what he is told. His owner defends him, explaining that dogs have to “ponder a situation” and that his pet is “meditating” on what to do.

However, what happens next is accompanied by a hilarious voiceover by the owner. Warning – this video contains one or two minor swears.

On day 3 of Dream Dogs‘ week long compilation of YouTube dog hijinks, we have a classic video for you. If ever you needed proof that dogs dream, this is it; Bizkit is something of a minor YouTube celebrity due to her sleepwalking antics, and her owner has posted several videos that are all worth checking out.

There’s something a little eerie in seeing her ‘run’ whilst she’s laying on the floor, and other videos show her rooted to the spot and barking at something unseen, all whilst she is fast asleep. In one later video, she has even fitted the somnambulistic Bizkit with a crash helmet to stop her bonking her head whilst she is in a fugue.

Watch this and you will see why…

Well, it’s day two of Dream Dogs‘ top seven YouTube dog videos. This classic is a perfect example of why you should take some time out to give your pet a scratch behind the ear or a tummy tickle when he wants it. It stars possibly the seediest guy Dream Dogs has ever come across, and we shudder to think of whatever it was he’s up to in the clip.

His dog – a greyhound, by the looks of it – just wants a bit of affection but is denied. By the way, we don’t know if this took place in a house or a high rise apartment…

Cameras are ubiquitous today. Many people have a mobile phone equipped with a passable still and video camera, and high definition video cameras small enough to fit in your pocket can be had for not much more than £100. With all of this exciting technology at our disposal, what do we do with it? We film our friends, family and pet dogs doing incredibly stupid things.

High speed Internet connections and websites like YouTube enable us to share these moments of dunderheadedness, as Dream Dogs celebrates this with a week long series of some of the best dog videos to be found on the web.

In this first video, a fisherman embodies the spirit of cat-aggravating Mary Bale (she who dumped her neighbour’s moggy in a wheelie bin) with some casual cruelty gone awry. This one’s a win for doggie rights everywhere.

Be sure to come back tomorrow for the next in our series.

If like me you’ve been watching the World Cup over the last few weeks, you can’t fail but to have noticed the annoying sound that dominates matches. No, not the dulcet tones of Andy Townsend, the vuvuzela. The vuvuzela is apparently a traditional Latin instrument, and is often used in Brazil, although it only seems to be able to play one note – at least when in the hands of fifty thousand football fans.

As annoying as the vuvuzela is; it’s also a great marketing ploy on behalf of the South Africans because millions of the things have been sold, and many have made their way over here to the UK.

However, one thing you shouldn’t do with a vuvuzela is attempt to annoy your dog – as the monotone sound of the vuvuzela can, and probably will, illicit the sort of response that will have you wishing you’d never heard the word ‘vuvuzela’.

Watch this video to see what happens when a dog is confronted with a vuvuzela, and how he deals with it in his own, inimitable fashion.