Am I right to harshly judge the owner of a dog wearing a dress?

[AgentZigzag]

We live in a small market town, so hardly New York (not that that makes a difference in the judgement to me) and on the way home today we walked past a woman putting a chihuahua in her car which had on something similar to <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=www.dogsupplies.cz.cc/products/280x380/106_4.jpg&imgrefurl=www.dogsupplies.cz.cc/__product.asp%3FP_ID%3D106%26ZoomImage%3D5&usg=__BMciXUZLHwhhT2bHmU_LCfWn47g=&h=380&w=280&sz=14&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=UZrH3gFTdV7jSM:&tbnh=125&tbnw=101&ei=nE7VTb-GDoTZtAbpg-2bDA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dchiwawa%2Bdress%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1146%26bih%3D667%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=400&sqi=2&page=1&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:0&tx=62&ty=88" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this.

The woman kept looking over at us, I thought possibly because she expected 10 YO DD1 to 'ahhhh isn't it cute' the dog, but as we've seen dogs dressed up on telly and talked about while it might be harmless, some people see it as a bit demeaning for the dog, and totally different to putting a warm coat on a dog like a greyhound that might need it, so DD1 was desperately trying to suppress her face at actually seeing a dog in a dress in the flesh.

So would you say dressing up dogs in hoodys, hats, sunglasses and the like on a daily basis, is just a bit of harmless fun and the dog hasn't got a clue anyway?

Or is it freaky as fuck and the owners should be put in the pillory?

I saw a dog in a dress and fairy wings a couple of weeks back. Oh I judged, DH nearly exploded trying to suppress his judging.

ZigZag, the real question is was the dog wearing Manolos? Anything less and he/she will have just looked silly.

Well then, Agent, you most definitely are NBU. Poor thing.

Future, how do you know the wings weren't real?

Madamedeathstare that's a great pic x

Well speedy, I wasn't going to comment, but as you've brought it up, I thought the dress was unbranded.

Arf at clarets real fairy dog

I dressed my cats in a Santa outfit once, always amusing for the pissed off look on their face. But a dress on a dog is just wrong. Especially a slutty dress.

Gasp! Then I shall judge them very harshly.

I might have tried to give DD a balanced account of why dogs shouldn't be dressed up when it's not cold Poncey, but I reckon the look of derision on my face might have belied my conviction.

Cats are different in my mind, if I tried to dress up one of our cats they would scratch my eyeballs (and other soft flesh) out, if your cat doesn't mind and you don't have to wear gauntlets to do it, then by definition they must like it

UNBRANDED???!!! WTF. Mulberry do some beautiful dog wear. The owner is treating that poor little dog like shit