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I found this photo from my 2008 files. This was shot at Bangkok’s Pratunam Market. I took this shot not because I thought the dog was cute but on the contrary, I was pissed off at its owner. Not only that the dog was dyed with colors but to add insult and DISCOMFORT to the poor thing, it had a shirt on. On a humid and high-temperature day! I don’t know if this was the dog owner’s way to attract people to buy from her or just plain naiveness.

I can understand people clothing their dogs during low temperature but in BKK where people would take their shirts off if they could, this was just wrong. I am no stranger in clothing dogs because my own pug has his jackets, which I seldom put on him and if ever I do, only for a few minutes of photo shooting, that’s it.  But even when I do it only for few minutes, my husband would scold me bacause it’s not right to that to a dog, any dog. And he is absolutely right! Dog experts say that an exception is the chihuahua breed. I don’t know about that because I don’t have a chihuahua (yet.)

Anyway, imagine yourself covered with hair and living in a land where the average temperature is 29C? And with a shirt on?! Perhaps you’ll pant, hang your tongue out until it drops to the ground and BITE others around you because you’re irritated and feeling discomfort, wont you?

Let dogs , be dogs. Without shirts and not dyed, that’s the way they are created and should stay.

Note: background was changed into B&W and dog was selected to show only its colors.

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