We’re rolling up on Halloween pretty soon, and you know what that means: Crazy-ass white people dressing up their dogs. (Although Spaghetti Cat’s owner, Faye Murrell, is providing an exception to the rule. She’s like a single non-white woman juggernaut of pet-related insanity.)
Why does it seem that pugs get disproportionately singled out for costume abuse? Is it the curly little tail? The smooshed face? The googly wall-eyes?
Or are we confusing causation with correlation–is it simply that the kind of white yuppie suburbanite that is drawn to the breed to begin with is more likely to put them in an elephant costume? (Please note the expression of stoic suffering. Seriously, click the link it will make your soul explode.)
Has PETA been made aware of this? It’s not any crazier than their latest campaign to get Ben & Jerry’s to replace the bovine milk in their ice cream with human breast milk.
For more pet-related humilation hilarity we suggest:
*Beedogs: Exactly what it sounds like
I wish people would take out these hideous tendencies on their children rather than their fuzzy wuzzy wittle pets.
I usually assume the people doing it don’t have children. It’s misplaced parental humiliation.
Oh god, what if they dress up their children…LIKE…PUGS.
If they do… then somewhere… THERE IS A WEBSITE OF CHILDREN DRESSED AS PUGS.
BOOK DEAL!!!!!!!!!
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