Please tell me what's so inhumane about dressing up dogs or carrying them around in carriers?
I don't use carriers, but I don't see nothing wrong with people who do. I see myself putting up a defensive mechanism when I put my dog in one only for pics, because I know how people get on the whole topic and might think ''omg you're another one of those paris hilton dog people''.....What if I did use them? I don't think that makes me a paris hilton wannabe and I treat my dogs like 'items', because I do use them.
They're really niffty things for taking dogs on subways, ect where dogs need to be contained and without the worry of beinging stepped on. If the place allows it, sure....if the place doesn't allow it, then I do understand why people get upset, that small dog owners get away with things like this. But some places say its perfectly fine if the dog is in a carrier/stroller. And please don't assume, because the dog is in a carrier, it never gets walk. That's not in ALL cases. Responsible and irresponsible owners use them. Doesn't make responsible owners terrible for using them. I do think the responsible dog owners who happen to use them know their dogs have the ability to walk. So when someone says 'dogs have feet, they're meant for walking', IMO if it were said to me and if I used a carrier, I would think it was offensive to my knowledge on dogs and as a dog owner, because obviously I never knew dogs were not snakes and had feet for a reason.
I put clothes on my dogs. But I don't see it an more different than people who buy designed collars for their dogs, except it covers more than the dogs' neck. I'm aware they have fur. I'm not overdressing them though. If its too hot outside, then they wouldn't have any business outside in the first place. But if its a nice day outside, I don't see an problem with me putting clothes on them if A:they don't mind and B:its not hurting them.
They LOVE when I take their clothes out, because they know they'll going somewhere. They can't wait to put them on, and the never once try and take it off or bite at it, nothing of that nature. If my dog didn't like putting clothes on or tried to take them off, I wouldn't put it on them. They don't do head gear, so I don't do hats, sunglasses, only for photo sessions. But Pepe didn't mind his santa hat though. My dogs wear clothes for almost every outing. Inside they're butt-nekkid. Not even as much as an collars or harness on.
But why, because I choose to put clothes on my dogs, some people have the nerve to tell me, why don't you have kids if you want to put clothes on a dog and go all peta on me. Seriously a dog and a baby are too different things. I can 'baby' my dog, but I can't 'dog' my baby. I can't leave a baby in crate while I'm at school or have it housetrained by 8wks. old.
Some people really need to focus on some more serious issues. If the really think THIS is dog abuse, they really don't know what abuse it. I do know most people are extreme with 'humanizing' a dog, but that is not the case for everyone who does these things.
One day I would like to post something without 'no my dog does not live in his carrier' and 'yes the do get exercise' or 'no my dogs don't wear clothes 24/7'.....or 'it wasn't below freezing temperatures that I had to put clothes on my dogs'
I do understand the differences though between spoiling them, and spoiling them rotten to the point where they never step on solid ground. That is cruel. Carriers and clothes, umm no. Unless the dog does not like it and your dog is soley a fashion item to you and that's the only reason you own a dog. I own a dogs, not because I could put clothes on them, I can be my own fashion statement. But why can't my dogs be as fashionable as me? Am I so wrong for doing so? Or are some people overreacting a bit too much on these issues?
A person can think its silly, but its not for me. Don't like it? Don't dress up your dogs or put them in carriers, but why should you tell me what I can and cannot do with my dogs, because you happen to think dressing up dogs/putting them in carriers is 'silly'?
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I don't use carriers, but I don't see nothing wrong with people who do. I see myself putting up a defensive mechanism when I put my dog in one only for pics, because I know how people get on the whole topic and might think ''omg you're another one of those paris hilton dog people''.....What if I did use them? I don't think that makes me a paris hilton wannabe and I treat my dogs like 'items', because I do use them.
They're really niffty things for taking dogs on subways, ect where dogs need to be contained and without the worry of beinging stepped on. If the place allows it, sure....if the place doesn't allow it, then I do understand why people get upset, that small dog owners get away with things like this. But some places say its perfectly fine if the dog is in a carrier/stroller. And please don't assume, because the dog is in a carrier, it never gets walk. That's not in ALL cases. Responsible and irresponsible owners use them. Doesn't make responsible owners terrible for using them. I do think the responsible dog owners who happen to use them know their dogs have the ability to walk. So when someone says 'dogs have feet, they're meant for walking', IMO if it were said to me and if I used a carrier, I would think it was offensive to my knowledge on dogs and as a dog owner, because obviously I never knew dogs were not snakes and had feet for a reason.
I put clothes on my dogs. But I don't see it an more different than people who buy designed collars for their dogs, except it covers more than the dogs' neck. I'm aware they have fur. I'm not overdressing them though. If its too hot outside, then they wouldn't have any business outside in the first place. But if its a nice day outside, I don't see an problem with me putting clothes on them if A:they don't mind and B:its not hurting them.
They LOVE when I take their clothes out, because they know they'll going somewhere. They can't wait to put them on, and the never once try and take it off or bite at it, nothing of that nature. If my dog didn't like putting clothes on or tried to take them off, I wouldn't put it on them. They don't do head gear, so I don't do hats, sunglasses, only for photo sessions. But Pepe didn't mind his santa hat though. My dogs wear clothes for almost every outing. Inside they're butt-nekkid. Not even as much as an collars or harness on.
But why, because I choose to put clothes on my dogs, some people have the nerve to tell me, why don't you have kids if you want to put clothes on a dog and go all peta on me. Seriously a dog and a baby are too different things. I can 'baby' my dog, but I can't 'dog' my baby. I can't leave a baby in crate while I'm at school or have it housetrained by 8wks. old.
Some people really need to focus on some more serious issues. If the really think THIS is dog abuse, they really don't know what abuse it. I do know most people are extreme with 'humanizing' a dog, but that is not the case for everyone who does these things.
One day I would like to post something without 'no my dog does not live in his carrier' and 'yes the do get exercise' or 'no my dogs don't wear clothes 24/7'.....or 'it wasn't below freezing temperatures that I had to put clothes on my dogs'
I do understand the differences though between spoiling them, and spoiling them rotten to the point where they never step on solid ground. That is cruel. Carriers and clothes, umm no. Unless the dog does not like it and your dog is soley a fashion item to you and that's the only reason you own a dog. I own a dogs, not because I could put clothes on them, I can be my own fashion statement. But why can't my dogs be as fashionable as me? Am I so wrong for doing so? Or are some people overreacting a bit too much on these issues?
A person can think its silly, but its not for me. Don't like it? Don't dress up your dogs or put them in carriers, but why should you tell me what I can and cannot do with my dogs, because you happen to think dressing up dogs/putting them in carriers is 'silly'?
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