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Keep your paws off those precious pumpkins!

Dusty the cat sits with a bucket of pumpkins at Kelly's Emerald Feeds in N.Y. on Sept. 16, 2011. Northeastern states are facing a jack-o'-lantern shortage this Halloween after Hurricane Irene destroyed hundreds of pumpkin patches across the region, AP reports.
Aaron Eisenhauer / Saugerties Post-Star via AP

Dusty the cat sits with a bucket of pumpkins at Kelly's Emerald Feeds in N.Y. on Sept. 16, 2011. Northeastern states are facing a jack-o'-lantern shortage this Halloween after Hurricane Irene destroyed hundreds of pumpkin patches across the region, AP reports.