Just Slipped through the cracks !

As you can see from all the dogie snaps above... our dogs have been fair game for dressing up in strange outfits and enduring all our crazies....but one lone dog has managed to slip under the wire...OMAR, came into our life a little less than two years ago....I am reminded of this because he will be two next month on the 11Th. He was 10 weeks old when he arrived , small timid and very quiet...never making a sound. We had just lost our precious Bubbles and Squiggee was still in heavy mourning....It was Winter , and in PA this means snow and ice till Spring...Omar hated the cold and so I began to look for a sweater or coat... When our first dog Woof Woof , was a pup in Middletown, Maryland, farm country , he was not endowed with a lot of fur...so from day one when the weather changed he had sweaters ,coats and sometimes he wore both. Woofie was also use to many strange outfits as I had started him off very young posing for pictures... so anything was OK with him...When he was two I found this wonderful all in one sweat suit complete with four legs and a pee pee cutout...he loved it...he wore the damn thing till it was thread bare, and in the snow he wold have it on with a coat over the top...so I found one for Omar...Pink and Grey, but being all black , I thought this would be a fashion statement ...anyway he would have to have a larger one for the next Winter...
Now anyone that has ever bought a coat ,sweater or Boots for a dog thinking that you are doing them a big favor, can understand that not all animals find this a plus.......I put the suit on Omar and he turns and looks up at me ....." you have lost your mind lady ".Omar dressed to kill would not move a muscle...he actually looked like he was in pain........when he did attempt to walk ,it was like he had the biggest wedgie in his get-a-long...stopping every couple of steps , turning , trying to see what had him by the hinny...It was painful to watch....so bag that idea, on to the next outfit, this being one of Squiggee's coats..too big but no back legs... He was not happy but would walk , all the time biting at the coat trying to get it off...Tee- shirts and sweaters they all were met with the same behavior....slowly he got more fur and Spring arrived and by the time the next Winter rolled around we were living in Colorado and he was full grown with a dense coat and clearly not in need of extra covering. The Winter in CO was nothing compared to PA, so Omar was safe...and coat less, problem solved. While making the collage of past dog pictures this morning it occurred to me that Omar has never had a picture taken in any outfit....hummmm, with Halloween fast approaching we will have to see about this...I have on occasion while packing and unpacking this last year, found a bandanna or devil horn headpiece and tried to get Omar in the spirit for a photo...he goes crazy, ripping and tearing at whatever, like you have poured hot oil on him......
I guess most of our dogs started so early posing, wearing silly things that they never thought twice...Omar is his own man so to speak, and will not bend I fear..the dye is cast !!!!...
Yesterday, the Sunday paper had a Pet Smart ad displaying a pirate dog costume..... the hat was to die for and Omar being all black with long ears and sporting a white goatee would be perfect , and I could supply a gold loop earring...while I was in fantasy land, my husband said...."he won't stand still for any of that", and Squiggee says she is a girl so forget it !!!"...the voice of reason....no he won't...maybe the vet has a pill that would make him placid and amenable to the whole costume idea...but then that would be wrong....wrong...wrong...hummmmmmmmm or would it be that bad !...kidding people...just kidding....I'm afraid Omar will just have to go through life naked but for the goatee...lol !....or maybeeeee??????