Pokémon is everywhere these days, with games, toys, trading cards, and pretty much anything that will sell being mass-produced all over the world. Apparently, it's not content with just being the largest-grossing franchise of all time in the human world, though, and is now taking on the presumably harder-to-crack dog market.
An officially-licensed range of items for dogs has been released by South Korean company, Dasom. There are all sorts of goodies on offer like Poké Ball toys, a wonderful Pikachu hoodie, blankets, and even little bibs. A fair few Pokémon characters are featured, too, including Squirtle, Jigglypuff, Ditto, Gengar, Charmander, and Dedenne.
Sadly, the site doesn't appear to ship outside of South Korea, but you can check out the whole range here if you like. Perhaps you'll feel inspired to create your own piece of clothing for your adorable fluffball at home?
[source nintendosoup.com, via gonintendo.com]
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Dogs shouldn’t wear clothing. IMO it’s animal abuse.
Everytime my sister tried to put clothes on any of the dogs I owned in my life the dogs disliked it and panicked.
That being said. With the exception of a few, These seem more like commen dog accesories tinkered around dogs with pokemon themes than actual dog clothes.
Absolutely disgusting
@darkswabber sometimes dogs need clothes in cold weather especially if they have arthritis.
@darkswabber
It’s not animal abuse, what a nonsensical comment, many dogs that don’t have a sufficient fur coat for the cold weather need a jacket or coat.
@Rodan2000 @mantez I explicitly said “in my opinion”, I explicitly explained my experience that made me view it that way and I than went on and said that a accesory tinkered around a dog is okay in my book but general dog clothing isn’t.
You can keep a dog warm by using specialized accessories and without using clothing.
@darkswabber It's not animal abuse to put clothes on an animal LOL. I see people say this all the time but it really depends on the animal and the clothes. Sounds like your dog just never been trained/used to putting on clothes. There are rules to clothes and collars. They must properly fit your animal of course. Our dog actually refuses to stick their bare feet in the snow because he hates the cold and doesn't want to get wet. He's very good about getting his coat on for winter snow days. Contrary to popular belief that dogs can't get cold because their coats will just protect them, they can still get very cold. People who actually leave their dogs out in the cold are abusing their animals! This happens often enough. It's a shame. If your dog doesn't like clothes that's fine. That just means they aren't trained for it and scared. Our dog has been used to it since young so they don't think it's weird or abusive at all. He even lifts his little legs for us to put on his coat lol.
@darkswabber
Please enlighten me how you can keep a dog warm outside without clothes but using specialised accessories?
There’s no way I can take my chihuahua out in the current weather without a coat, he would be too cold.
@darkswabber
Also, looking how many downvotes your initial comment got it may be worth keeping your opinion to yourself about a subject you clearly know nothing about.
@darkswabber Every animal is different just like every person is. And certainly regardless of the animal their human should make sure to introduce them to clothing, harnesses, collars, etc carefully and with plenty of treats and patience.
Case in point: I trained my cat to be a visiting therapy animal before it became apparent that she had trouble with carsickness. She’s very social, loves picking up tricks, and cuddling is her favorite thing so the training was something she absolutely adored. She’s always been especially good at getting out of her harness (which a therapy cat needs to wear to be certified and is just a good idea regardless when you’re out and about with a cat) so I started putting pet sweaters over it to keep her from being able to wriggle out. It took her some time to get used to them (just as it did her harness) but now when she sees me holding one she’ll often come running over to stick her head through herself because it means she’s going for a walk (which she loves loves LOVES). She’s a short-haired cat as well so in the winter the sweater helps her stay warm while she tromps around happily in the snow.
I also foster homeless cats and, when a cat is having trouble standing out from the crowd of adoptable rescues sometimes I’ll get them used to wearing sweaters to wear them at adoption events. In some cases it’s actually helped them be less stressed at events and it always gets them some interest!
@readalie "Regardless of the Animal, their human should make sure to introduce them to clothing, harnesses, collars, etc" Not always true or the case though. For examples: A Husky dog, any long fur dogs, and even certain short hair dogs could be fine without coats in the winter cold. And for cats, well they mostly either let them outside on their own and they will find their way back easily, and then their will be house cats. Quite rare for someone to walk their cats, but their is one person who lives near me who does, while the rest in my area either lets their cats out on their own (I suppose they keep their cats in for the Winter or the cats choose not to go out in the snowy/cold days as I don't recall seeing much cats out when it is winter.) or they are house cats.
I have 3 house cats, (2 have no experience outside.) We got them when we rescued 6 kittens and a Mother Cat. Here's a short story of how we got them; The Mother cat moved the kittens in a spot where it could flooded and it was gonna rain hard that day at my dad's work (it did), mom and dad decided to bring them home, we took care of them all and then we had to give up at least 4 of them for adopting because of personal reasons. So we kept two of the Kittens and the Mother. So the Mother had experience outside but the other two don't. Honestly I would love to let the Mother outside....... but when she sees other cats, she goes crazy and want to like attack them. I know cats can be territorial, she did escaped sometimes outside, and did came back on her own, but one time (not sure if it was the only time), she did attacked another cat outside, and I mean fiercely like she want really injure the other cat, with screeching loud meows. Just felt like sharing this.
Also we don't have collars on our cats, since that is not a necessary thing all the time.
So yeah I agree with "Every animal is different just like every person is" and that does goes against what you said after that comment you wrote heheh.
@IceEarthGuard "Regardless of the Animal, their human should make sure to introduce them to clothing, harnesses, collars, etc" —> I meant that if you do choose to introduce them to such, do so carefully, NOT that you should do so no matter what. Sorry for the lack of clarity.
Love the story of your kitties!
@readalie Ah, thanks for the clarification.
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