Best search query ever

dog-clothes1.jpgI just checked my (pathetic) stats for the week, and found that among the usual people looking for stuff about 'bad rash on neck' (rank #2) or 'max carlish' (rank #10), one user based in Georgia (the American state, not the former Soviet state) accessed thebadrash.com by searching Ask.com for 'are clothes on dogs cruel'?

Incredibly, my site (well, a page about banning foxhunting) comes up as the top result for this topic, eclipsing a plethora of dog clothes shops which clearly don't make any effort to answer this serious moral question. What's more, it's a question I'd never thought to ask before. Are clothes on dogs cruel?

My kneejerk reaction would have to be 'no'. I'd say that unless you're behaving like Brian from Spaced, who dressed his pet dog in the garb of an Elizabethan merchant and commanded the poor creature to "Dance for me!"; unless you're doing that sort of thing then I can't see how putting a little raincoat – or even a suspender belt – on your dog would be cruel.

The crueller thing to do, by far, would be to have a large dog who has to spend 23 hours of his day cooped up inside a flat. Personally, I'm amazed by people who claim to love animals but treat them in this way. The guy who cuts my hair (he works at Man Style, but isn't called Javi, and has been cutting my hair for nearly four years, so I can't exactly ask him for his name again) – he has two massive dobermans (or dobermen?) who spend all their time in his flat. They get less than an hour's walk a day. They could easily cover 50km a day.

If you have a strong opinion about this, or any other issue raised by today's post, please don't hesitate to leave that comment.

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June 10, 2006 | General 

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  1. Guirilandia on June 11th, 2006 7:08 pm

    That pink pajama is damn cruel if you ask me. Recently, writing about topless sunbathing has garnerd me loads of hits. lots from argentina and the southern US. hmmmm

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  2. Pet Channel on June 13th, 2006 7:25 am

    Are Clothes On Dogs Cruel?…

    The question "are clothes on dogs cruel?" leads to many search results…….

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