Replies to '03/21 Is This Normal?'

I take offense to the comment that dogs must be embarrassed in clothes. I have yorkies and mine are dressed most of the time in the cooler months. Yorkies do not have a double coat (with an undercoat) like most dogs. They have a single coat that is hair just like our hair. So they lose much body heat without clothes. Mine wear them and I know hundreds of others who do as well. In fact, my "crockpot" yorkie (figure that one out (as opposed to "teapot")) LOVES clothes so much I have to practically fight her to take them off. They wear jammies at night. It gets very cold and if I don't put their jammies on, they shiver all night.

I think its bizarre.

You've made exactly the same error the show's "Doggie Mom" is making - attributing human emotions to dogs.  Dogs don't get embarassed, any more than they "say" that they think it's rude for people to ring the doorbell instead of knocking politely. 

I can see putting a doggie sweater on a chihuahua when it's the middle of winter and a foot of snow on the ground. Especially when I'd walk him to his best, great dane, friend's house.