If you need a cat costume

[Marcia]

You've come to the right place.

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[SlowMove]

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[bunltd]

LOL, thanks for the chuckle, marcia. Some of these cats look like they've been bopped on the head before taking their picture... look at their flattened ears and the indignant expressions... puppies, well, dog's don't care what they wear...

LisaB - who doesn't dress her pets one way or the other

[mivox]

look at their flattened ears and the indignant expressions...

They're Scottish Fold [cfainc.org] cats... they all look like they've been bopped on the head at birth. I suppose I'd be indignant too. ;)

I don't know where people find pets that will put up with that sort of thing. I've never owned a cat, dog or ferret that would sit still and keep a hat on long enough to get a photo...

It's like those people who put barrettes and headbands on little wispy-haired babies. My siblings would rip off their head-decorations as fast as my mom put them on, and then chew on them...

How do people get babies to wear hair bows OR cats to wear bunny-hoods?!

[Dayo_UK]

Sometimes I wish I was a Cat - Easy Life.

>> LisaB - who doesn't dress her pets one way or the other

Cant say that I do.

[Marcia]

>>I don't know where people find pets that will put up with that sort of thing

OK, now you got me started! I've got a foster cat here who is now wearing a Handi-Wipe held together with a paperclip on her head. I put it on her, she looked up at me and went back to sleep - still wearing it, like a babushka.

[Iguana]

Hmmm Marcia - most cats have dignity.

Reminds me of a friends reminiscences on her cat when she was young "... and the last time we ever saw it was as it leapt over the fence dressed in the doll's dress."

[limbo]

I've just submitted the URL to the Graham Norton Show

Just the sort of eccentric oddity that'd go down well there.

[dragonlady7]

When I was a little girl, the family cat was a very smart animal. This kitten would climb up into our doll carriage and take a nap. It was the most comfortable place in the house!
Sure, the little girls thought it was so cute, and then they'd put little doll sweaters on him. But Snick was a smart cat. He'd let us put the sweaters on him, and he'd even purr. We absolutely loved it and he liked the attention.
He outgrew the sweaters, and we outgrew the doll carriage. He's still around, 13 years later, too big for baby sweaters, placid, unruffled, and in wonderful health.
He's a great cat. He has his dignity, he just doesn't bother getting it out much. It might get dusty, see, and then where would he be? Probably dead of old age and stress. So he just doesn't bother. He lies in whatever lap he chooses and nobody denies him, because he's a good cat. He kills what he wants to, chases what he wants to, is fed very well, and never wants for a good scritch-session when he wants one.

That said, I don't think even Snick would want to be dressed as a rabbit.

I just have one question-- I wonder if our misuse of Japanese kanji characters (tattoos, cd covers, cutesy t-shirts) is as funny to speakers of the language as their misuse of English (see engrish.com) is to us?

[miles]

I am simply amazed that people dress their cats. Only one word comes to mind... Abomination.

[juniperwasting]

All of those cats look like they are about to die from fright.