Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing by Judi Barrett, Ronald Barrett
My rating: 5/5 cats
greg brought this up to me last week, and i don’t know how i have missed it all these years!! this book has a message i can stand behind.
initially, it goes into the ways that animals in clothing is impractical because of the nature of animals’ bodies and the limitations of human clothing to stay on or enhance those animals, but then it ends with the most convincing point: animals in clothing is just plain embarrassing! to them and to us. poor animals, why do people try to steal your dignity by putting you in clothing that is unnecessary? why would a dog need little booties?? this is the equivalent of taking your average child and slapping it in a bubble—it is just going to weaken and soften your child like counter butter, and all the other kids/dogs are going to make fun of them. no booties, no bubbles. this is my presidential platform. it is not as good as:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5RlRg…
but it is what i am putting out there. just say no.
i am going to make my own television commercial, where i put those poor sarah mclachlan shelter and circus-animals in clothing and play some manipulative tune over it, and then you will all see!
here, try this—sing that song to yourself and look at these animals and pretend they are from some shelter where they have to wear these clothes all the time and at the end of it all, the keepers will put them down unless someone steps in to gently but firmly remove the clothing.
oh my god, are you laughing?? you are a monster.
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