Tobi and The Halloween Costume He Refused to Wear
Mommy: Look what I got, Tobi?
Tobi: Huh? What's that?
Mommy: Your Halloween costume.
Tobi: I think it's much better as a chew toy.
Mommy: Let go! This isn't a chew toy, it's a Halloween costume. I wanna see you wear it.
After a few minutes of tugging and wrangling...
Mommy: See, it wasn't so bad. Look it has eyeballs. So cute.
Tobi: *sulks*
Mommy: Tobi come on, get up. Mommy wants to take a picture of you and your costume.
Tobi: Can't you just take it with me lying down like this. It saves me from further humiliation.
Mommy: No. It's not a proper picture.
Tobi: Okay, how about this? A nice close up of my face.
Mommy: I need you to stand up and walk around in your costume.
Tobi: Do I have to? *whimpers*
After a few attempts at coaxing, bribing and sweet talking...
Tobi: This is just great. I look like a cockroach!
Mommy: It's not a cockroach. It's a spider and you look cute in it.
Tobi: A spider?! There's no such thing as a spider with 10 legs and long ears!
Mommy: There is now. *snickers* Come on, look over here so I can take a proper picture of you.
Tobi: I refuse. *sulks*
Tobi: This is what I call "A Lie-in Protest". I won't go anywhere with this thing on me.
Not even in the parade. Mommy has to drag me over there.
Mommy: You're being so melodramatic. It's just a few minutes of walking in downtown.
Tobi: No, thank you. I'd rather stay here.
Mommy: We'll see about that.
Just five minutes before leaving for the pet parade...
Tobi: Woe is me. I'm a dog in a cockroach costume. Woe is me.
Mommy: Shush, it's not that bad. And it's NOT a cockroach costume.
Tobi: Please don't let the other dogs see me like this. It's like totally embarrassing. *whimpers*
I promise I'll eat all my food in the morning and I'll try not to mark every pole in our walks.
Just take this thing off me. Puh-lease! *whimpers*
Mommy: *sighs* If you really don't like it that much, I guess you don't have to wear it. But...
Mommy: ...you'll have to wear this jester collar as backup. *evil grin*
Tobi: Great, just great. Now I look like the village fool.
Mommy: No you're not. You're a puppy jester. Isn't it lovely?
Now look this way and let me get a proper picture of you.
Tobi: I refuse. *sulks*
5 comments:
This post cracked me up, Jennifer! Our poor dogs...we torture them so. It is out of pure love though :) My dogs got off lucky this year, no costumes for the first time. Poor Zeus he got it 3 times his first year when he was still an "only child" before Luna...Halloween (a King), Thanksgiving(a Pilgrim but he looked like a witch-ha!), and Christmas (Santa, of course!) Thanks for the laugh...it's always needed! Your Tobi is the cutest, by the way! Those eyes- he has mastered that poor puppy dog look.
So cute. I love how Tobi protests. That's what my cats have done when I put something on them. They lie down and act like they can't move.
Love it! Some of those pictures made me laugh out loud. Poor, tortured, little Tobi. :) Oh, the horrors! ha. I must say, I'm quite impressed that you were able to find a costume that fit him! We got XXL for Oba, yet it still stopped at his stomach. :)
Hysterical. Thank you for giving me a good laugh today.
That is just adorable! Between your Tobi and Priscilla's Oba, I am convinced I want a Basset Hound! :) Tobi was definitely letting you know what he thought of his outfits!
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