After this photoshoot, I hereby declare The Water Dish mascots VAIN. Especially the females – Truffle, the brain-damaged Siamese mix and Lady Pei Pei, a 15-year-old Papillion.
I wanted to try on some of the clothes and accessories from Fluffy’s Choice that we would be selling at the Paws N Friend’s event this Sunday, the 26th of June. Which, if you don’t already know, is from 1 – 6pm at Bishan Active Park (on Bishan Street 23). Love Kuching Project, their foster kitties and ourselves will be there, and we will be giving away FREE Bosch and Sanabelle food, selling treats like JerHigh, Bow Wow and Greedy Dog at insane prices, and of course, debuting Fluffy’s Choice clothes, bags and accessories for our store at this event.
I decided to doll the mascots up – after all, what are mascots for if not to vouch for the products tried and tested?
Lady Peipei and Cracker got ‘married’. My personal favourite is the tuxedo, because I’ve always envisioned Junior Major, the chihuahua, at my wedding in a tuxedo (not that I’m about to wed anytime soon at all). Been searching in vain for doggy tuxedos to no avail. Fluffy’s Choice tuxedos are custom made and only come in selected sizes.
We have them in blue, red, black and white. It retails at $49 for all colours. There are also quite a few bridal gowns for sale, but we will only have one piece for every design at the event. Very limited, and once out of stock, we would have to start taking in orders and have them delivered to you instead.
Then we have here darling Junior Major in a Mexican outfit, the highlight of which is the Mexican hat!
Great for Halloween, if you don’t fancy Frankenstein dogs. Junior is also donning cloth booties, in black (with blue tongues). These booties are easier to wear than the hard kind with laces, because they drop easily when dogs walk. Tried and tested, and gave up on booties for dogs. But these cloth booties meld well with their paws and are fastened with velcro strips around their ankles.
Comes in a pack of four in red, blue, khaki and black, at $18.90 per set.
I like also this sailor outfit, especially the sailor hat!
It looks super cute and fits dogs with floppy ears or straight-up ears. The elastic bands are looped around the ears and double fastened under the chin with an adjustable velcro strip.
Best part is it is only $13 – and your furry friend turns into cute sailor! Cracker, the sailor model, is a very stoned model and just sits there and lets us snap away at him with our cameras. He also looks extremely bored. Which is good for us, because it is so difficult to get animals to sit and stay, not to mention pose, for photos. In clothes.
Then we have the Go-To-School look, and our model is Junior, who is 9 this year but looks like he’s only 4, with his youthful face and playful nature.
He has on a cap one size too large for his head and somehow managed to almost shake it off his head.
The backpack can be used to put lightweight stuff like his treats, tissue paper and doggy poo bags for his walks.
We have quite a variety of sizes for the caps and it suits large dogs quite well. There are also other colours – red and blue; and other designs like brown camouflage and green camouflage for that rugged look.
The backpack also comes in denim and dark blue, for $15 each.
Here at The Water Dish, we don’t believe cats can’t do what dogs can, and that includes strutting around in clothes. Here’s one vain example, Truffle, in a silky Oriental cheongsam.
Do pardon her look, she tends to look stoned most of the time to people who don’t know her well because she is partially brain-damaged. But she is a true lap cat with quite a fiesty temper at times.
We have a few varieties of Oriental dresses and shirts, and only one of each. The pretty one above is retailing at $26.
Junior’s After School look is the Looking-Tired-After-Playing-Soccer look.
The soccer jersey is oversized for him, but I was just trying it on for fun because I didn’t want to take out all the jerseys from their plastic wrappings for size. There are England, France, Argentina and Italy jerseys, all for $24 each.
Here is Cadbury, resident temperamental cat, donning a tribal outfit two sizes too small for him!
He’s also looking up at Junior, who is wearing a netted black ‘bad boy’ vest thing, complete with metal chains and studded pockets.
Junior does not particularly like cats, because they jump out at him unexpectedly and he ends up snapping at most of them, except for one or two of his favourite cat buddies. Unfortunately, Cadbury is not one of his cat buddies.
Junior’s I-hate-most-cats-including-you expression.
I like the chain on this outfit. Gives the furry friend a very biker-ish look.
The dogs and cats were very tired and hot after the photoshoot, but all of them looked rather happy from the attention and probably also the opportunity to play dress up once in a while (vain). There are loads more clothes to be displayed at the event on 26th June (5 more days!) but I chose only the ones I personally liked for the mascots to have fun with.
Sooo… I guess we shall see you there?
