…is equal to the love you take

Unless you are taking your pet drastically out of his/her environment, there’s never a need to put clothes on  her. I agree in spirit with the writer of this Post Secret–though I’m not sure what kind of revenge  is being alluded to. Dressing your dog up just for giggles is just sad, sad, sad. You embarrass both your dog and yourself.

We have a 12-lb Schipperke who is an older dog and when the temperatures here in the Chicago area plummet in the winter-time and the wind chill is flesh-freezing, we do put on her Old Navy coat. She hates it but but she’s far more likely to take a decent walk versus when she’s not wearing it under the most extreme conditions. The other time Raven “gets dressed up”  Is when she wears a rain-repellent coat. She hates the rain and refuses to walk in it. Well just like humans, even if you don’t feel like exercising you still gotta do it. Rather that dragging her through the puddles we put on the rain jacket and she remains rather oblivious to the buckets coming down, though she still stops and shakes the water off her head occasionally. Though her raincoat has a hood we don’t even attempt to have her wear it. It would be too insulting.

Raven