French Bulldog does not want to wear new sweater

This dog goes crazy and starts running around his owner to prevent her from wearing what he considers "a ridiculous coat" Hilarious! This hysterical dog is tired of being the laugh of other humans and undressed dogs, so he has become a bit rebellious to do what he can and avoid looking like an adorable dog, as he wants to pretend to be a rude and intimidating dog. Very funny!Show more

When it rains or it's cold, many years choose to cover their dogs with small raincoats. Although the intention is good, the effect on the animal is not so good. It is common to see it in cities: when it rains or when it is very cold, dogs go out dressed in a small coat or raincoat. There are them of all the sizes, colors and prints, and beyond the aesthetic taste (or the lack of it), it is undeniable the good intention of its owners that, to avoid that the animal gets wet or it gets cold, they shelter him with one of these garments.

But the gesture may be motivated more by our own perception (we come out sheltered and is what we would like to do with us if the tables changed) than by the welfare of the animal. According to Alezandra Horowitc, a cognitive scientist specialized in animal behavior, dogs should not be put on coats because what we understand as protection, for them is a sign of domination. Although other experts consider that these garments are useful.

"Many owners of dogs that dress them to go out when it rains have the best intention: perhaps they have noticed that their pet does not want to go out in the rain and it seems reasonable to think it is because it does not like," says Horowitz in Brain Pickings. In addition, dogs react in very different ways when they wear one of these garments: they still wag their tails with emotion at the prospect of the walk that they stay completely still and let themselves be done. Horowitz argues that to understand how dogs feel about it, it is best to study their evolutionary ancestors: "Both dogs and wolves have their own coat permanently on, and one is enough. When it rains, wolves look for shelter but don't cover themselves with other materials.

But that is not the main reason that the scientist uses in her argumentation. Horwitz assures that the canine coats oppress even slightly the back, the neck and the head of the dogs, and that in the nature this only happens when an animal imposes its domination on another one. "The coat reproduces that sensation, so the main experience the dog gets from wearing it is not the protection against time, but the disconcerting sensation that another specimen of higher rank is nearby. Thus, he explains, when a dog stays still and lets himself be dressed perhaps he will not do so because he likes or agrees, but because he is being dominated. "And in the end will be less wet, but that matters to us, not him.