Pet outfits: Cute or horrifying?

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 17 Jul 2002, and now archived in the Forum Library.

niah	17 Jul 2002
I've seen them all, folks. Egyptian headresses for cats, Pirate outfits for dogs, Minstrel outfits for PARAKEETS. This must be put to an end. The pets of the world shall join together. And when they do, it won't be pretty. Imagine if you will: A Pomeranian in a pink tutu and rhinestone collar chasing you down the street. A Tabby in a Harry Potter outfit, scratching up your precious Rolling Stones records. The ones that are worth a LOT. End this atrocity of "dressing up" your pets. That Pug in the Merlin magician's hat knows where you live! :TCHAR

Phoenix	17 Jul 2002
I dispise it when people put oufits on pets!

niah	17 Jul 2002
So do I, Phoenix. So do I. :TCHAR

Sam	17 Jul 2002
eeeeeeeeeeew!!!!!!!!!!! pet outfits! the only "outfit" i put on my dog is an oversized t-shirt so she won't get sun burned with her summer shave! but that is only when she goes on long walks. LONG!

Starfish	17 Jul 2002
The only thing that I dislike more than outfits on pets is these horrid cement geese (or teddybears) that people in my area put on their porches and then dress in seasonal clothing - ugh! edited for my poor spelling ;) :T7W Starfish

niah	17 Jul 2002
For the love of all that's holy, CEMENT GEESE?! I can't stand the REAL ones. Canadians! I'm not discriminating Canadians, but I bet even they can't stand their own geese! :TCHAR

Starfish	17 Jul 2002
Quote: Originally posted by niah For the love of all that's holy, CEMENT GEESE?! I can't stand the REAL ones. Canadians! I'm not discriminating Canadians, but I bet even they can't stand their own geese! :TCHAR I know! It's awful. Some people have several of these cement geese on their porches, in cutesy matching outfits (ex. bride and groom; Santa and Mrs. Claus). UGH! :T7W Starfish

niah	17 Jul 2002
Call the Funny Farm. Those people need psychiatric help NOW! :TCHAR

Red raven	17 Jul 2002
my grandma has a sweater she knitted for her dog. but it's diffirent, because it's functional. short-haired dog, and very cold winters. some kid in a pink dress made her horse a robin hood outfit and was prancing around at the Stampede. poor horse XP

amyel	17 Jul 2002
Horrifying. 'Nuf said.

kayne	18 Jul 2002
I am shuddering to think... Fortunately the craze has not really caught on here... although I did notice a delux super show style grooming salon for pets just down the street. Oh dear. How can stores like that exist and make money and there are no specialty Tarot Stores in Perth???

wavebreaker	18 Jul 2002
Ridiculous... I can understand using a t-shirt for your dog against sun-burn, but outfits?? And what about pets that need to go on a diet because their owners have stuffed them with food (candy) that's not good for them?? Some pet owners don't seem to realise that pets are not like humans and that they have different needs. People who don't realise that are no animal lovers to me...

VGimlet	18 Jul 2002
I normally hate them, unless they serve some purpose; like my friend, whose mom knit her Rex cat - rescued, might I add, from a kitty mill - a few little sweaters to keep her warmer in the winter. And I don't mind people who change their pet collars for the season. But outfits - eck. Although we have toyed with the idea of dressing all our animals in hats *only* for a picture - but the logistics alone are unnerving, and it makes for a better idea than a reality, I think.

kayne	18 Jul 2002
I just remembered one of the last scenes in the movie "Cats & Dogs" where the evil cat that wanted to take over the world is getting dressed up and photographed in different outfits!!! Very funny! :D:D:D

catlin	18 Jul 2002
I don't like dresses and stuff on animals. An animal usually has its fur to cover and protect its skin (I really pity those poor Rexes and Chiuahua dogs and such with their nearly naked skin). Ok, I put once a doll's hat on Toby and Lucky got once one of my necklaces around but that was ages ago and only for a short moment to try out how they would react (they both didn't care about that stuff) and I took it away right afterwards. I think it'd be much better to stop the breeding of such atrocities so ppl don't need to get clothes for their animals but look what a fuss is made over this dog in MIB II with his MIB outfit! As for stuffing animals with inapropriate food: I remember having known a person who had owned an overweight tabby cat and a skrawny Siamese. I have often told her to reduce food for the overweight and to feed her separately but this person was either too lazy, uncaring or stupid to manage that. My cats usually don't wear collars as they are only kept in the house. They just get one when we go to the vet (just to be on the safer side in case one of them should run away by accident).

Bella	18 Jul 2002
ew, I agree, pet costumes are awful. What are people thinking? I do put little "booties" on my dogs in the snow though--but only because the rock salt gets between their paws and hurts them otherwise. I've never seen cement geese...and i thought plastic flamingos were bad!

Umbrae	18 Jul 2002
Out here in the west, animal-rights groups are fighting that animals, domestic and wild, have the right to lead productive lives. I think it is time for animals to produce. First we have cows with guns. Now it’s complaining about dressing up animals. Do the animals like it? Have ANY of you asked the animals? As for Pomeranians alone, zero redeeming qualities, not big enough to make a burrito. So dress them up and make them look silly. A redeeming quality! Often, some breeds need to be dressed in order to alter them, from target-to pet. Often, dressing up an animal provides it with the self-esteem necessary to be productive. Take a parakeet. Can any of them exist longer than 20 minutes in North America? No. So what do we do with them? Turn them lose to fatten the crows (gets my vote-our cousins need to eat), or dress them up as amusements. Terriers, since nobody uses them for ratting anymore (stopped as in-humane and cruel), what to do with them? They no longer serve the purpose to which they were bred. Exterminate or amuse ourselves with Bonnie and Clyde the Terriers? Cement geese? You folks have a problem with lawn furniture? Some folks…that’s all they have. They lead hollow empty lives filled with loss and pain; and you point at their lawn ornamentation? When you laugh and point, three fingers point back at you. Now a cement leprechaun…there alone is a reason enough to bring the entire Irish Republican Army down upon ye. (lol)

wavebreaker	18 Jul 2002
Ever heard of the Garden Gnome Liberation Front? The TBF is a Dutch organisation who fights the every day routine by fighting for the rights of the garden gnome (the dullest thing on earth). The TBF is a open action force and can be joined by everyone who respects the rights of the garden gnome. Just start your own cell, make a visiting card with your translation of the Garden Gnome Liberation Front, free a gnome, leave a visiting card and let the gnome free in the forest.

Umbrae	18 Jul 2002
I could never join such a terrorist organization. I could however let loose a terrier, costumed as an evil dwarf or a French chef, upon the hapless garden gnomes.

Dark Inquisitor	19 Jul 2002
[quote][i]Originally posted by Umbrae [/i Cement geese? You folks have a problem with lawn furniture? Some folks…that’s all they have. They lead hollow empty lives filled with loss and pain; and you point at their lawn ornamentation? You are so right Umbrae, I am guilty . I even wanted to do a coffeetable photo book called "Eyesore" about that one house in every neighborhood that has gone mad with exotic lawn adornment. But now , thanks to you, I realize what a shallow & cruel thing that would be ! And let's not forget that the people inside those terrifying houses are laughing at US - the pathetic deck collectors, lost in a world of our own , deluding ourselves that we can read the little cards !On the road to hell. If people want to dress their dogs because it's easier than having children, we should not judge! In fact , we should never judge anything!!!!! Opinion leads to division. Empty your minds at once! Repent! Kumbaya, Tarotphelia

Lightlike	19 Jul 2002
I don't think animals much care for stupid outfits, I know our cats even hate collars let alone clothes. I can only understand the use of outfits when its something functional... Like I saw on a show once that a woman put a shirt on her pregnant basset hound to keep the dog's belly from getting scratched up from rubbing against the ground and I understand Bella putting booties on her dogs because of the rock salt cutting their feet but elsewise let the animal be natural--that's why they have fur!

mermaiden	25 Jul 2002
Quote: Originally posted by niah For the love of all that's holy, CEMENT GEESE?! I can't stand the REAL ones. Canadians! I'm not discriminating Canadians, but I bet even they can't stand their own geese! :TCHAR *LOL* For the past couple years, Toronto has been having a problem w/overcrowding of geese. There were some ideas being tossed around but (happily) I don't think they ever were poisoned thanks to activists (I'd feel bad if they did because we humans have taken up so much habitat as it is!) I think parts of nothern states are being affected by overpopulation of Canadian geese to (they migrate south, naturally).

DarkElectric	28 Jul 2002
The only time I ever dressed up one of my pets was the time my dog Max was the best man at a wedding. He wore a red bow tie. (It was an evening wedding. He had to be formal!)

Sulis	31 Jul 2002
Horrifying ! Crystalmynx

HudsonGray	31 Jul 2002
Right, I agree. The only time an animal should wear clothes is to protect it from something. Currently our cat has a jacket on (home made) to keep from tearing out the fur on his left side. It's a reaction to a food allergy & we've switched foods but it takes 2 months to kick in. While we're in transition he has to wear it or he'll have a palm sized bare spot of his own making right there in front of his hip bone. Any outfits made just to have the pet look 'cute' should be burned.

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