This Is So Wrong

The trend of using tiny yap dogs as disposable fashion accessories was bad enough (yes, Paris and Britney, I am talking about you). Now we have this:

First came the dogs. Teeny-weeny little things, smaller than a cat or even a rat, so little they could fit in your purse.

Convenient, sort of. But consider the mayhem that a dog, no matter how tiny, can cause inside your pocketbook. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to figure out that you do not want all that mixing it up with your cell phone and lip gloss.

...That brings us to the present and the latest chapter in the annals of hound-hauling... In this contraption the dog actually becomes the purse. The $89.95 Twinkletoes Traveler has adjustable straps to convert your dog from handbag to shoulder bag and back again.

Do I really need to explain how wrong this is? Did the women who will snap up these dog-to-purse conversion kits not get the pre-puppy lecture from mom and dad? You know, the one that goes something like a puppy is a big responsibility and it's a living creature, not a toy? That lecture?


Maybe this is the inevitable offshoot of the stuffed animal backpacks that first made their appearance maybe ten years ago. I'm thinking the ladies who sport Fluffy-as-handbag will pretty quickly have the desire to permanently convert Fluffy to an actual handbag when they realize that no matter how cute it might look to certain twisted people at first, Fluffy is still an actual dog who may not be content to be slung over her owner's shoulder for extended periods of time, who will need drinks of water and bathroom breaks, and who really can't be conveniently set on the table or stashed under a chair during lunch. A dog that might, horror of horrors, act like a real dog and bark or snap or otherwise behave in a non-purselike manner, demonstrating exactly zero understanding or gratefulness at the ninety bucks owner-lady dropped to convert her into a Gucci poochie.