I value my comfort and freedom. I walk happiest on four feet. I hate it when I cannot wag my tail for someone I love, when I cannot bound up happily to lick his face, when that darned ‘dress’ threatens to trip me up each time I run. I do not feel cute. I feel hampered and uncomfortable and ridiculously silly.
Save the vanities for you and your kind. Leave me a cheerful scruffy frump.
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Just before the day ends here’s my 100 word drabble for day 3 of the Marathon Bloggers Drabble week. Today’s topic is If I were an animal.
I wish every tortured animal speaks up like this !! Well done, Tulika 🙂
That last line says it all. These just make them look ridiculous!
I agree with you wholeheartedly. People dress up their dogs and parade them or post their pics for their own delight but the animals suffer silently. Great post.
Thanks Sulekha. Just wondered what it would be like if they could speak.
The poor dogs, if only they could speak, I agree it is wrong to try and dress them up. If people understood. Good one, Tulika!
Glad you agree inderpreet. Somehow loving them translates into humanising them.
"Save the vanities for you and your kind." – very well said 🙂
Thanks Beloo.
oh yes so true.. I hate it when people dress up their dogs .. wish i cud say something to them
Bikram
So not necessary, na?
Haha….love this one!! And seriously to those who doll up their pets, please let them be!
Thanks Aditi.
I know. Let the pets be!
Absolutely.
Oh that picture could not have been more apt 🙂
Thanks Pallavi.
I agree completely. They are beautiful just the way they are, why try to humanize them. Well written
Unfortunately humans think they elevate everyone by humanising them. How wrong are they!
Agree with you. Poor creatures, I am sure they'd be feeling so embarrassed and annoyed and also it would be so uncomfortable for them!
Yeah .. Just wondered what they'd be feeling.
I couldn't agree more! Let dogs be dogs. This could even be considered a mild form of abuse and I don't condone it at all. Good post!
Thanks Debbie.
Totally agree with you, Tulika. I cringe each time I see 'salons' for dogs.
The internet is also full of dog-dress up games and costumes for dogs. It's crazy.
In spite of Man being Man, a dog is his best friend 😀
Well done, Tulika!
Hey thanks for dropping by Vidya and you're so right.