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Don't make your cats wear "cat costumes" for Easter...

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Direct I can haz link is here. My original post is here . Knowing that Easter is coming up, I wanted to reprise something I have said before- but in a much stronger form. Earlier, in my post Holiday Kitteh Reindeer Costume- FAIL I said "I'm just not a big fan of "kitteh costumes". Cats have an innate dignity that humans often lack." My underlying thought, for what I said more mildly before, is that we humans don't "own" cats. We are very privileged that they have chosen to associate with us. It is an offense to cats to do make them wear "costumes" for our amusement, and that is pretty clear from the sample of comments posted by "the cat owners" in the "information" intro to various YouTubes of cats wearing costumes. Yes, this is a "fair sample": --Captain Charisma hates being a dino cat! --Silver still doesn't like being a dino cat --Jade is our russian blue, she loves her costumes and enjoys tr...

News Flash- we has update on reindeer apparel!

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My pal twolf sent me this from I can has cheeseburger, after reading the post below. Case closed. Purrfect, twolf. Huge thanks! Direct I can has link is here

Holiday Kitteh Reindeer Costume-FAIL

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Oh, and Merry Christmas! See you all next year. No, I don't have a cat, right now. And, except when I was well under ten years old, and also had cats available, I have never had the impulse to dress them up in costumes. But, from my various YouTube adventures, I have learned that presumably sane adults do this kind of stuff to their cats, as in the YouTube below. Let me just say that had I been so inclined, I would have chosen a somewhat classier version of the reindeer costume, for example the one shown in the picture to the right. Kitteh Reindeer Costume FAIL Direct link is here (0:43) Fine and dandy- if humans choose to dress up as reindeer or aardvarks for Christmas, well that's their responsibility... as this clip below from one of my favorite movies, "Better Off Dead", amply illustrates. I'm just not a big fan of "kitteh costumes". Cats have an innate dignity that humans often lack. Excerpt below is "A Christmas Miracle". I encou...