If I start dressing up my cat, shoot me

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I am looking downstairs at my neighbor's patio. She has two 20+ lb. Russian Blue cats, and they are sitting there in matching red t-shirts. I don't know why I find this so amusing. Maybe it's because the cats are stuffed into too-small t-shirts like sausages. Both have huge pot-bellies that are straining the fabric. They seem slightly embarrassed.

I'm convinced that dressing up your pets is one of the warning signs of encroaching spinsterhood.
 
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Math Is Hard said:
I'm convinced that dressing up your pets is one of the warning signs of encroaching spinsterhood.
:redface: starts undressing her cats
 
Not to far from where I live there is a shop dedicated entirely to selling pet clothing, gourmet pet food and treats...and I'm pretty sure it was advertising for pet massage to. I can't believe some people will actually waste their money on crap like that.
 
This is just wrong:
http://www.i-pets.com/pics/dogs/dog6-400.jpg

and this is just disturbing:
http://www.i-pets.com/pics/dogs/dog15-300.jpg
 
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Math Is Har said:
if I start dressing up my cat, shoot me
*Get's a shotgun
Just tell me when you strart:biggrin:
 
I believe this is MIH's cat:

http://www.stuffonmycat.com/media/2/20050916-Q.jpg
 
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Math Is Hard said:
This is just wrong:
http://www.i-pets.com/pics/dogs/dog6-400.jpg

and this is just disturbing:
http://www.i-pets.com/pics/dogs/dog15-300.jpg
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If you think those are bad, think of the humiliation of a dog being dressed as a mouse!

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I like Disney, but even I won't subject a pet to that extent... but then again, I don't have a dog, and there are no pet costumes for saltwater tropical fish. :)

Zz.
 
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yomamma said:
http://www.stuffonmycat.com/media/2/20050916-Q.jpg
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Honest, I haven't been anywhere near the chickens!
 
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Evo said:
:redface: starts undressing her cats

Oh, God, woman! Seek professional help soon!
 
Jonny_trigonometry said:
here's a top notch website about putting stuff on cats

http://www.stuffonmycat.com/
I think I've seen everything now. :eek:

Zz said:
and there are no pet costumes for saltwater tropical fish. :)
:smile: I guess that explains why there is no stuffonmyfish.com.

And yomamma, that poofy feline Gabor sister is definitely not my cat!
 
Ivan Seeking said:
Honest, I haven't been anywhere near the chickens!


I got more a of an old 'pokemon' feeling looking at the cat.
 
Tragically, only a few days after this photo was taken, Buster's owner took a fatal tumble down a flight of stairs.

http://www.stuffonmycat.com/media/2/20060310-LASSIE.jpg
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
That is one very ticked off kitty! :smile: :smile: :smile:

Wouldn't you be too if Tsu dresses you up in pink lace?

:)

Zz.
 
ZapperZ said:
Wouldn't you be too if Tsu dresses you up in pink lace?

:)

Zz.

Every time! :devil:
 
In a similar vein, I find this trend disturbing:

http://www.cheekaboo.com/media/logo_cow.gif
http://laurawright.com/images/photos/album/isa/03_04/cow_clothes_250.jpg
http://www.hopscotchdressingup.co.uk/store/hat_cow_brown.jpg
http://www.playcoats.com/images/cow.JPG
 
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Oh dear God zoob, my eyes...
 
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zoobyshoe said:
http://www.hopscotchdressingup.co.uk/store/hat_cow_brown.jpg
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She looks very unhappy.
 
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I think these pictures are quite cute. Not disturbing. Well, maybe that one with the Chihuahua in it.
 
dduardo said:
My dogs have short hair so I put little sweaters on them when it's cold. They seem to like it.
Just how cold does it get in Miami? :confused:
 
Moonbear said:
I WANT to enjoy the wild birds that are attracted to my gardens, I don't want cat urine killing my plants, or having them digging up the garden, or finding their feces while I'm working in the garden.
Moonie, you need a fisher living in your neighborhood. Their primary prey is porcupines, but they also snack on cats. My wife and I lived in an old rented farmhouse about 25 years ago, there was a large stand of mature hemlock on the lower 150 acres. Lots of porcupines meant a stable population of fishers and not much of a cat problem. Thanks to the fishers, entire populations of rabbits, chipmunks, and ground-nesting birds got at least a bit of a break. That road is lined with big new houses now and much of the natural habitat is gone. I haven't spent any time back there, but I would venture that there are probably not many partridge, rabbits, wrens, etc anymore. Domestic cats do not belong in the wild and inflict terrible damage on wildlife diversity.
Moderator note: the text above refers to content now moved to this thread. I couldn't decide which thread to put this post in since it addresses both discussions. ~Moonbear[/color]

To lighten things up, here is last year's Xmas card from my cousin and his wife. Their terrier is a very smart little fellow. When they got him a Shreck "Donkey", he showed very little interest in it, so Jeff made it look like Donkey was going after Sparky's favorite rubber bone, and Sparky immediately grabbed Donkey by the crotch and started flailing him around violently. After that, Sparky would try to inflict that same type of damage on Donkey every time he was within his reach. Sparky is quite obedient and posed grudgingly for the picture, but it's easy to tell he wasn't real happy about it.
 
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Oh, lordy, Turbo! He really has his eye on that donkey! :smile:

Looks like he's thinking, "Just you wait, you no-good bone-stealing low-down jack-ass!"
 
He's not going to let poor donkey join in any reindeer games.
 
zoobyshoe said:
He's not going to let poor donkey join in any reindeer games.
:smile:
I think he has some reindeer games of his own in mind.
 
Not good. Reindeer games get ugly sometimes:

http://themes.belchfire.net/screenshots/%5B4037%5Dreindeer_games512.jpg
 
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