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5th Oct 2020 at 1:41 AM
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If they have proper fur/feathers and technically don't need clothes, then the clothes are probably just going to be in the way and/or annoying for them, so I'd say in most cases pet clothes are just a gimmicky thing to make you spend lots of money on your pet. If it's just to make them look "cute", then I'm not for it, because it's completely unnecessary, and I'm pretty sure most of them aren't too fond of it.
Animals have clothes, and it's called "fur" and "feathers". If you put clothes over the fur or feathers, their actual clothes do a worse job because they can't pouf up the feathers or rise/lower the fur when they need to. The hairs are connected to tiny muscles. When you get "goosebumps" and hairs rising up on your arms when you're cold, that's actually the same function, but for animals it works a bit better since they have a lot more hair, with the hair poufing up. So as long as they have plenty of fur, they don't freeze. They're more likely to freeze if you put clothes on them... If you live a place where it's warm, remember that the same goes for cooling down. Dogs (possibly also cats?) cool through regulating their fur, but sweat through breathing, so you don't want them in clothes on a warm day. Best let them regulate their own temperature...
If the clothes have a clear purpose and is actually doing the animal a favor, for instance if a bird picks at their feathers (and there's nothing else you can do to get them off that habit - as I understand, they often start because they're bored and/or in a bad environment, and if they've done it for a while it's very difficult to get them to stop, even if you change their condition to the better), or if they have very little or no fur to begin with and they need help to keep warm, or if it's for an event (I guess something like Halloween would be fine), then clothes would be fine. Maybe not all the time, though - depends on the situation.