Where I can buy nice pet costumes for my animals ?

Since dogs have such individual sizes/shapes it is much better to make pet clothing yourself. Please don't call them costumes. Your animal companions are not toys.

I spent a fair bit of time training my cat for this. I'd send her out in the morning and when she'd see another cat with a nice outfit, my cat would fly over and mug the well-attired competitor, ripping off the outfit and bringing it back to drop at my feet. I suspect, but don't know for sure, that she finalized the mugging with a breed-slur.

On top of a furcoat one simply does not wear neither a custume nor any other outfit.
Cats and dogs wear furcoats.

So did an old roommate of mine. This guy you wouldn't believe. One morning he woke up and there were crop circles on his back.

True story: We were at a public swimming pool one day and Ken who'd been underwater (about four foot depth) suddenly stood up. A young girl screamed in fright seeing this hairy water monster emerge.

I can't help but love your 'true stories'.

Last week at the pool I was wondering if there'd been a casting call at Hairy Backs R Us.

Wasn't there a True Story magazine way back when? Or maybe True Stories. Thinking 40's or 50's.

Ok, ok, I'll look it up.

Yep -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Story_%28magazine%29

I've been thinking that maybe I ought to gather them up for a 50's pulp-style paperback with an illustration on the front cover of a long-legged dame in a tight dress slit up the side and smoking a cigarette under a streetlight looking longingly up at an apartment window where tie loose and shirt unbuttoned I am banging relentlessly at my typewriter, glass of Scotch to the side.

Yes, it's a thing.

True Crime, True Detective, etc

They all used the word "true" the same way Trump uses it. But their covers attended my high amp voyage through puberty.

There was also a magazine simply called True. Utterly fantastic stories, at least several of which I discovered were completely true - maybe 40 years later.

Sorry, we've sort of burst into your room and started dancing.

ehBeth's idea sounds like a good one. My ex loves knitting and has been doing it for years. She finds it calming. And yarns you can buy now are gorgeous. I never took it up because it's only been in the last decade or so when men with tattoos have been welcome in knitting clubs.

Another low cost and simple idea might be to look at places like Walmart for inexpensive stuffed animals that come with a costume of appropriate size. It should be easy enough to remove the costume items and stitch them up as necessary.

Did the story events happen to you to?

No. I got confirmation from more reliable looking sources. This was way before there was an internet. You know, when computers meant acres of vacuum tubes. If you speak British, those tubes were called valves.

There used to be a radio program I loved on the CBC . When the host signed off he said ... good night vacuum land.

I wrote it into my book of English words/phrases to look up/decipher.

I didn't know what what vacuum land referred to for many many years.

English can be very mysterious.

I used to love looking in the air vents of our old vacuum tube tv. The tubes gave off a warm yellow/orange light and it all smelled very nice too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_McFee




well it almost circles back to the thread title

a mouse could be a pet

right?

This seems a good place for this.