The best thing about the dogs

is that they let us dress them in clothes. (Which they do need in winter, but, I mean, we dress them up year-round.)

However, I was sorely disappointed with one of the shirts Eva picked up recently for Moonpie, which read "Too bad barking doesn't burn calories." We're not just fat-shaming our dog now, we're also bark-shaming her? Not cool - and that's what I told Eva. She didn't argue the point, she returned the shirt, which is good, because the whole message was bizarre and gross.

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