Depends. Are you spending Chanukah in Santa Monica?
Attempting to put clothing or accessories on cats is a whoooooooooole 'nother level of crazy beyond dressing up dogs. Cats don’t stand for none of that shit.
BEST DOG EVER! I have a minpin too! nickname = Monkey!
I agree minpins are the best. Still saddened my bitch died a year ago. They truly are the king of toys. I didn’t have the tiny teacup version of the minpin, i had the robust ratter type the one that acts like a jack russell terrier.
ours too! he’s quite the little hunter! When we put his sweater on he sighs and “tells” me he doesn’t like it cause it makes him look like a sissy! But he likes to strut around in his bow tie!
I have a small Boston Terrier and live in the frozen Midwest tundra. My little dude spends the day at the shop where I work and he’d shiver all day without some kind of jacket. Unfortunetly for him the baby blue sweater he’s wearing is the LEAST dorky thing I could find that would fit.
If this offends you I think I’m ok with that.
Who tricked the dogs out? Who? Who-who-who-who?
I think very few dogs actually NEED to wear clothes. Those few that do should be decked out in something simple and effective, not a fuggin ball gown.
My dog would bite my hands off if I tried to dress her up – she can barely stand to be groomed. She likes to be petted and held, mind you, she just doesn’t like to be fussed with.
(I did, when I was little – and we’re talking about seven-year- old – dress up my cat a few times. She wasn’t too happy.)
Might’n’t it vary according to the individual dog(s) involved? I’ve known some pooches who enjoyed their doggy duds – a couple of them were toy breeds whose humans had spoiled them rotten, until they quite agreed with said humans about how special and excellent they were; these snooty specimens of canid conceit plainly regarded their raiment (Chelsea the Yorkie’s ever-present hair and tail ribbons; the fuzz-ruffed sequined jacket that was handmade for poodle-peke Bonbon by his doting daddy) as evidence of their superiority to dogs and men alike.
Leaving aside that couple of unique and pisselegant mini-monsters, I’ve been acquainted with several dogs who had enough of a sense of humor (or at least enough of a sense of fun) that they gave every appearance of enjoying the amused reactions people had when they saw said pooches wearing their hats or tie-dye t-shirts or biker vests. Of course, there are also serious or shy or work-centric dogs who’d be painfully embarrassed (or the canid equivalent thereof) by being made to wear incongruous garb and regard it as conduct unbecoming to a canine. A person who’d subject that kind of a dog to such unwelcome adornment is just mean, and oughtn’t to be allowed to even have a dog.
It was BMada’s dog that wore Depends, not Tamryne’s.
more like a diaper version of a maxipad, it was funny shit.
Oh and to add there are working dogs that wear booties. If i recall correctly, the dogs that worked during 9/11 to find bodies/remains and survivors wore booties to protect their feet from getting mangled from all the debris. Or even the military dogs i’ve read about that were given medals of honor. Dressing them up for being heroic, yea, that’s just a huge injustice to the world in which they made safer. OH MY GOD THEY WORE HUMAN GET UPS!!! THE WORLD HAS ENDED!!! DOGS RULE THE WORLD NOW!!! good thing i’m a dog person…
I believe that police dogs wear bullet proof vests.
Dogs who need booties for safety while crawling over rubble in search of disaster survivors=ok
Dogs who were awarded symbolic medals to honor their “bravery” (which they don’t even understand and which is mostly motivated by the “cuteness factor” anyway)= mostly ok, though I think it’s pretty stupid, too…I also think kicking a police dog shouldn’t be considered “assaulting an officer.” All of these things are just mostly frivolous and dumb.
Dressing your dog up because you think he’s cold= stupid since it’s probably needless
Dressing your dog up for no other reason than because you think it’s cute= STUPID!!!
Even shorthairs will be fine outside in freezing cold weather provided you don’t leave them outside for too long (and if you did that you’d just be cruel).
Just admit that 90% of "dressing dogs in ‘people clothing’ " comes from the cuteness factor, the other 9% comes from how much it tugs on your heartstrings when you think that your dog might be cold, and the other 1% from the very few dogs that actually do need to be dressed up.
seriously are you that fucking stupid to believe that short-haired small dogs can prance around in frigid cold and salt/snow mixups on the ground without booties and some sort of extra layer? SMALL DOG. big dogs have the mass and surface area ratio to cope with colder weather better than small dogs. Are you that dense to think that I wanted to dress my dog up because it tugged my heartstrings because she “seemed” cold? I would be charged with animal cruelty for walking my dog for exercise in that frigid weather. She actually did tip toe in salt/snow mixtures when i chose not to put on booties because it was a hassle for me to have the whole dress up thing before I went for a walk. She NEEDED the booties, she wouldn’t move passed the large uncleared snow or even attempt to walk on salted pavement.
If God wanted them to have a thicker layer of coat argument… so you wanna go Darwin and Survival of the fittest too? Okay tell me why the fuck we help people starving around the world, why not just let them fucking die. Why do we preserve endangered species? Let them fucking die out, they fucking can’t handle the changes in the environment. Just because you can’t fucking comprehend what a pet is and you don’t understand that we “care” and “love” these animals to protect it and make sure it’s comfortable will never get through your fucking dense outlook on what I did for my beloved pet.
I agree non-functional clothes or gear is dumb, but FUNCTIONAL shit like what I did isn’t something like the cosmetic shit you seem to abhor. GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL, the coat and booties that my dog wore were in fact FUNCTIONAL not cosmetic.
My dog get boots in the winter for two reasons. The main reason is that snow builds on the fur between her “toes” creating snowballs under her feet. When this happens she refuses to walk and I don’t blame her. The secondary reason is that it keeps the floors in my house cleaner. She is not running around with wet paws making puddles all over the house as the snow melts. Win-win situation.
Although this thread started out mostly in jest, you’ve lowered yourself to the level of ad hominems (boldfaced above). So, in light of that, I’ll ask:
HOW LONG ARE YOUR FUCKING WALKS WITH YOUR DOG, HUH???
Do you dunk your pet in a bucket of ice water before going out for 10 hour walks? Take your dog out for a shit break, run around the block for twenty minutes, and the go back home, for chrissakes! Your dog will be fine without a coat. Don’t believe me? Try it, I dare you.
I’ll give you the booties, fine. Those might be needed. But a sweater? Total bullshit.
*Okay tell me why the fuck we help people starving around the world, why not just let them fucking die. *
10/10 on the strawman! 0/0 for not recognizing a joke.
My dog is dead. We used to walk for 15 to 30minutes depending on what she wanted to sniff. Do you even know what a minpin is? or perhaps an Italian Greyhound? Do you know how small they are in weight? Do you have a clue about how much fur they actually have? Seriously you are fucking dense. and i love it how people always need to add “can’t you take a fucking joke?” out. I dont fucking know you, nor do i care to, you put this in the pit, i found it absurd and gave it a response, you claiming it was all a joke means shit to me. Arguing that my dog didn’t need the coat when you have no idea what a short-haired small dog breed is, clearly shows how fucking dense you are to not be able to see how my dog’s coat was functional.
No latkes for puppies if they have onions in them, though!
My dog is a geriatric (we guesstimate, via the shelter where we got him, that he’s over 15 years old) mini poodle who weighs 10 pounds or so. In wintertime we keep him in puppy show clip but he won’t go outside, period, without a coat on, when it’s very cold.
Forget 20 minute walks, he won’t go down two steps into his own yard to lift his leg for 30 seconds. Cold is painful for him because he has arthritis. So yes, he gets a coat, and if there’s snow he gets booties. I’m far far far more concerned with the wellbeing of my companion who relies upon me to take care of him than I am of anyone’s opinion of how “stupid” he looks when he’s comfortable.
and i love it how people always need to add “can’t you take a fucking joke?” out.
Uh, I was referring to the “God would have given them discount cards to The Gap” part of my OP, not all of it. I assume that was the part that made you draw that insanely stupid parallel between dogs and starving people, right? Yeah, which one of us is dense again?
You’re right, I did put it here in the Pit and I’m glad I did because dogs wearing clothing is stupid. End of story. Rant on all you want (that’s what I’m doing), but you could at least be civil. Just because you can insult someone in the Pit doesn’t mean you should. I wont do it to you.
Sorry your dog passed away.