Dog and Pony Show

June 10, 2011 6:28 PM

Animals Dressed as Other Animals
posted by Antidisestablishmentarianist (39 comments total)

yesssssssssssssssss
posted by rebent at 6:30 PM on June 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

archive
posted by Antidisestablishmentarianist at 6:33 PM on June 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

...and another spider/dog for those of you who like that sort of thing.
posted by bonobothegreat at 6:36 PM on June 10, 2011

I'm going to guess mostly dogs dressed as lobsters. I am prepared to eat my words, though.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 6:37 PM on June 10, 2011

That conure or whatever dressed as a bee makes my heart melt, and I normally hate this sort of thing.
posted by neuromodulator at 6:37 PM on June 10, 2011 [4 favorites]

Because this kitten wasn't already cute enough?
posted by heyho at 6:38 PM on June 10, 2011 [3 favorites]

The title of that site should be "Where's the Dignity?"
posted by milarepa at 6:39 PM on June 10, 2011

"Animals dressed as other animals...as they plot your death"
posted by Windigo at 6:39 PM on June 10, 2011 [7 favorites]

.....also, why do so many people want to dress their pets up like lobsters? Is this a thing? I had no idea this was a thing.
posted by Windigo at 6:43 PM on June 10, 2011 [3 favorites]

That was one fed-up-looking cat... 2.5 seconds after that picture was taken, that cat dressed its own self up as a mountain lion and the picture-taker as a jogger in the Rocky Mountains.
posted by deep thought sunstar at 6:59 PM on June 10, 2011

That's nothing, here's a picture of my Lobster dressed as a Dog. I'm thinking it's the snow that makes it look so real!
posted by tomswift at 6:59 PM on June 10, 2011 [7 favorites]

Quick! Someone call the RSPCA!
posted by cjorgensen at 7:14 PM on June 10, 2011

Did you find this out there at the end of the Internet?
posted by Sparkticus at 7:14 PM on June 10, 2011

I want photos of animals dressed as their own species.

Cat in a cat costume. Dog in a dog costume. Frog in a frog Costume.
posted by TwelveTwo at 7:32 PM on June 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

OK, so I'm used to (and love) dogs in costumes, but the bird dressed up as a bee? The ferret as a dragon? VERDICT: SO GREAT.
posted by troublewithwolves at 7:46 PM on June 10, 2011 [3 favorites]

This troglodytes is dressed up as a cameleopard.
posted by idiopath at 7:55 PM on June 10, 2011

Pikachu kitten wins for me.
posted by longsleeves at 7:58 PM on June 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

Even the zookeeper cannot keep a straight face.
posted by idiopath at 8:02 PM on June 10, 2011 [4 favorites]

So many angry cats and depressed dogs have rarely been gathered on one website.
posted by lesbiassparrow at 8:08 PM on June 10, 2011 [5 favorites]

At my house we call this "funishment."
posted by apis mellifera at 9:20 PM on June 10, 2011 [14 favorites]

I kept clicking through the archives hoping to find this picture, because it is pretty much the greatest thing ever.
posted by Dr-Baa at 9:35 PM on June 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

Windigo: ".....also, why do so many people want to dress their pets up like lobsters? Is this a thing? I had no idea this was a thing"

Because they are so cute, we just want to cover them in butter and eat them up.
posted by lesli212 at 10:27 PM on June 10, 2011

Even the zookeeper cannot keep a straight face.

Oh my god. Thank you, Internet.
posted by mykescipark at 10:53 PM on June 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

Note that every single dog has a look of shame.
posted by dirigibleman at 11:12 PM on June 10, 2011

This kind of crap is vile and pernicious and... OMG! BIRDIE!
posted by Splunge at 11:41 PM on June 10, 2011

Someone's owner is getting a present tomorrow morning after this experience.
posted by arcticseal at 1:28 AM on June 11, 2011

Isn't inducting animals into a furry lifestyle kind of... redundant?
posted by GenjiandProust at 8:34 AM on June 11, 2011 [2 favorites]

Beedogs or go home.
posted by FatherDagon at 10:42 AM on June 11, 2011

You really don't want the cats to choose how they dress up.

It gets messy. Very messy. previously
posted by warbaby at 11:16 AM on June 11, 2011

Grandville illustration.
posted by ovvl at 11:32 AM on June 11, 2011 [3 favorites]

You know what I like doing with my dog? Stuff my dog likes doing.
posted by Trochanter at 11:43 AM on June 11, 2011

Eating vomit?
posted by TwelveTwo at 12:11 PM on June 11, 2011 [4 favorites]

TwelveTwo: that or the buttscoot boogie.
posted by idiopath at 12:34 PM on June 11, 2011

Doing stuff to your dog that your dog doesn't like, and that isn't doing your dog any good, is the kind of thing you tell your three-year-old not to do.

I'll admit it, though. Cruelty to animals is a sore spot for me. Even stupid little cruelties piss me off.
posted by Trochanter at 1:20 PM on June 11, 2011

I am pretty sure the dogs are fine with it. But the cats aren't.

Table of Statistical Correlation Between Veterinarian Psychological Diagnosis and Species of Patient ^[1]

Dogs: 0.672 Masochism
Cats: 0.801 Narcissism
Hamsters: 0.983 Neurosis
Fish: 0.442 Hysteria
Parrot: 1.000 Psychosis
posted by TwelveTwo at 4:20 PM on June 11, 2011 [1 favorite]

Bear: 0.738 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (0.934 if kept in a zoo)
Computer Programmer: 0.855 Asperger's Syndrome
Squirrel: 0.773 Paranoid Psychosis
Rabbit: 0.933 Nymphomania/Satyriasis
posted by idiopath at 4:36 PM on June 11, 2011

You shouldn't dress up your computer programmer in a silly outfit that they don't agree to. Anonymous got started following a disagreement over a lobster costume.
posted by arcticseal at 5:50 PM on June 11, 2011 [1 favorite]

Bah, pet computer programmers, they'll never abide by any outfits. They'll just tell you how it would be more sensible for their computer to wear it instead of them.
posted by TwelveTwo at 6:24 PM on June 11, 2011

That settles it. Dogs do not like to wear costumes. Cats don't give a crap.
posted by chance at 7:10 PM on June 11, 2011