Our Non-Costumed Dog...

 Many of us have animals and some owners like to dress them up. I'll bet clothes accessories is a multi-million (if not billion...) dollar industry. It has to be. We love our pets so much, we'll do just about anything for them, which includes buying costumes and clothes for the animals we love so much.

Luckily for us, we have a dog that is not a fan of getting dressed up.

And luckily for our dog, we're not fans of doing the dressing.

Even though we're not fans, we did buy some clothes for our first dog, a small Shih Tzu named Patch. She was getting old and we thought we'd do her a favor by buying a dog sweater to keep her warm in the winter. We put on the sweater and we thought it helped. Shortly after, Patch started having trouble walking. We thought it was because she was old and her limbs were starting give out. It got so bad she couldn't walk. 

We took off the sweater and her legs began to work again. Turns out it was the sweater that caused the issue. Since then we've bought zero animal clothes or costumes.

Our current dog, Bec has never had clothes or costumes. We thought we'd try something. We came across some reindeer antlers and we thought it would be cute to see how the dog looked sporting the antlers. Turns out, our dog was not a willing participant. Just as well.

Millions of animals out there are dressed in fun and functional outfits. I wonder if they like it. I imagine many do, but I know at least one dog that doesn't.