The other day I was driving and noticed a dog hanging its head out the window of another car. Nothing unusual about that. It was a Pomeranian or similar breed. What was unusual was what the little dog was wearing - bright pink sunglasses! It had a band around its head to keep the sunglasses on. It looked like the glasses were pink as well, but since I was driving, I couldn’t take a good long look.
I go for walks often and on my walks I meet up with a variety of people who some of them are with their dogs. This past winter I have seen dogs (small and medium size) wearing rubber booties, red, usually. Although I think one dog had blue booties, can’t quite remember. There was a variety of sweaters, usually on very small dogs. None of the big dogs (labs, Akita’s, dobies, etc.) wore any sweaters or booties. I don’t think I would want to try to wrestle any of them into a bootie or sweater! I have seen some pretty interesting collars though - on all sizes of dogs. They come in all colors, some multi-colored. Different weaves even. Some have the dog’s name woven into the collar. I would think though that if my dog were lost, I’d want my phone number woven into the collar (I’m just say’n). There was a dog with a nice little hat - it had a bill to keep the sun off its cute little face. The dog’s nose stuck out a little though. I wonder if they put some sun cream on the tip of the nose. Probably not since the dog would just lick it away.
I find it amazing and fun to see what people buy for their pets. I clean houses and see a lot of houses with pets. So far, the dogs win out on who gets the most goodies. Some have more than one bed and a couple of those beds look more comfortable than mine! Pretty nice toys too. I’m telling you, I never had so many toys when I was a kid! Trouble is, I have a hard time figuring out which toy belongs to the dog and which toy belongs to the toddler. If the house has a dog and a cat, there are more bags and/or boxes of treats for the dog than the cat. Maybe cats are too picky, I don’t know.
I remember my dogs, both gone now. They didn’t have sweaters or booties and they didn’t need them. Toys, yeah, when they were real young but not after the first few years of life. I never got into the real trendy collars. I thought they were a bit spendy for me. I liked them, couldn’t afford them. Treats though. Hey - gotta have ‘em. I even made dog biscuits for my dogs. I tried several recipes and would give them to my dogs. Cosmo would eat anything I put in front of him. Calla would try it, then she’d spit it out if she didn’t like it or just refuse the second offer. So she was my trial dog. It was pretty cool, making my own dog biscuits. But the time it takes. They bake for a long time and have to cool slowly. Yep, what we do for our pets!
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