With searches for ‘Christmas Dog Outfits’ up by 70% on average in the last week, raw feeding experts ProDog Raw have highlighted how dangerous dog costumes can be when exposed to open flames. Ten outfits, bought from popular retailers as well as supermarkets were flame tested, with both ignition and full burning times recorded.
All items ignited in between one and seven seconds, with one item fully destroyed in one minute and thirty seconds. Only three of the costumes came with flammable warnings on both the outfit label and packaging, while another three had no fire safety labelling at all.
One outfit was completely engulfed and burnt the tester after just 40 seconds, while plastic fibres falling from a Christmas Pudding costume continued to burn and melted through the plastic water bucket being used to catch destroyed items safely.
