Small dog apparel: it lets you dress up your dog in cute designer dog clothes, it’s fun, it helps your chihuahua stay warm on cool nights by wrapping her in a layer of chihuahua clothes, and it makes stalkers out of perfect strangers at the grocery store.

Let me explain.

As a pet fashion enthusiast, I collect a lot of pet apparel for my little chihuahuas. Sometimes it’s a cute dog fashion coat from the Chihuahua Shop here; other times, it’s something from the luxury dog clothes for small dogs line of another online boutique. But either way, when my chihuahuas leave the house, they are well dressed!!

Well when I leave the house with my dogs, they’re usually dressed up in some of their best dog clothing. And, as it happens, when I go grocery shopping, I like to sneak my chihuahua Namaste into the store with me, to do a little spontaneous and covert K-9 grocery shopping! I usually slip her into my backpack after we step out of the car and we’re walking through the parking lot to get to the store, walk in, and then place her in that little top shelf of the buggy cart, on top of the backpack and using it as a pillow while I wheel her around and do my thing, usually without any store employees noticing (important).

So yesterday, we’re walking through the parking lot, she has her adorable chihuahua clothes on, and as I pick her up to put her in the backpack so I can sneak her in past through the door guard person here at the local “Mega” here in Puerto Vallarta, down here in Mexico, this rather large woman in pink sweat pants and a huge leopard-print visor comes charging from around this parked minivan and starts gushing about how cute Namaste is and how she has small dogs of her own, and how she loves to dress them up in yorkie clothes, and this and that and the entire kitchen sink of a conversation! I couldn’t get a word in as she walked beside me and I stuck Namaste into my backpack.

“Are you going to sneak her in?!” she announced to the entire neighborhood in her screechy voice. “I hope so,” I smiled back, now nearing the door and about to walk through. She had this look of excitement like she was going to explode or something: what is it about the mixture of chihuahuas and pet clothes that makes people loose it like this? I could see if she had never seen puppy clothes on a little dog before, but this is a person who lives with yorkies, who dresses them up in their dog coats and dog sweaters frequently, I presume. So what’s the deal with her squeal? Lol, I have to have fun with it: I’m only joking because this woman was super over the top with her adoration for Namaste and the small dog apparel she was wearing.

Anyways, I get into the store and I’m shopping around, the woman has left do to her shopping, and the usual mixture of kids and assorted other shoppers are noticing and coming up to pet the fashionable and increasingly famous chihuahua, Namaste. I’m walking through the pet supplies isle, looking to see what they have in the way of small dog collars and if they have any pet couture collars like the last grocery store I visited did (I couldn’t believe it!), when the woman sees me again and start billowing out about how cute she looks atop my grocery cart. This is not good. Now everybody is looking and staring, including the store staff.

I quicken my pace and give this jovial woman another quick smile and a knod, trying to break away, but she seems to keep following me around the store from isle to isle! She goes on and on, talking about the beds for smaller dogs and the pet furniture she found at the dog store the other day, and how she likes to use small dog harnesses on her yorkies instead of a leash. She starts talking about her shopper’s appetite for petite dog clothes–something I can relate to–so I stop my shopping for a minute to talk with her about chihuahua clothes and the Chihuahua Shop I run here, and as it turns out, she’s actually a cool person who takes good care of her dogs.

Unfortunately, it’s at this point when I spot the grocery store floor manager over the shoulder of my new, round, pink, small dog fashion enthusiast friend, and he’s walking toward us, and he doesn’t look very happy. It turns out that bringing your little dog into the store, even when she stays inside the little seat in the push cart and no matter how cute she looks in clothes for little dogs, is in violation of store policy, and I would have to take her out. And so I did …after a series of zig-zags through a few isles and a quick stop through the checkout line

Perhaps that’s one of the better parts of shopping for small dog apparel online: you don’t have to deal with “store policy” like this and you can have your chihuahua right there with you, browsing through the small dog clothing to your heart’s content. If you’re looking for clothes for your small dog, check them out at the Chihuahua Store, and I’ll speak to you again really soon, probably with another weird story involving sneaking my chihuahuas into places where you’re not supposed to have them! -Mikey

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view Yorkie Outfits at our dog clothing shop!

Hey there, it’s Jada! I’m the proud owner of three yorkies, and I have to confess: I love yorkie outfits. First of all because they take your yorkie’s natural cuteness–and who could argue with that! They’ve got the cute little toy breed stature and that cute long hair that’s just like this little aristocratic dog that’s hilarious and adorable! But when you dress them in yorkie clothes, it just cranks it up by 10x, it’s just unbelievable how cute they are. And if you ever have one of those in your house, your life is going to be a lot happier because you’ll always be reminded of the bright side of life and to not take things too seriously because your little bundle of love will brighten your day, guaranteed!

Yorkie outfits are great because they help you keep your little toy breed dog warmer and more comfortable at night, or whenever you’re in a cold room, and also help them look super cool and fashionable, as you can dress your little yorkie up with a myriad of fashionable outfits and make him look like any kind of character you’d like him to look like. It’s great! You can play different story lines and plot lines between your little doggies, if you dress them up as the bride and the groom, or the harlequin and the damsel in distress, the pirate, etc. There’s all sorts of crazy costumes out there for yorkies!

Dressing pets in little dog clothes like these is construed by some owners as a mild form of animal cruelty. They say “why would you dress up a dog in clothes? Isn’t that cruel?–I mean they don’t wear clothes in nature: they have their fur!” And I concede: it is unnatural.

In fact, I’ll tell you what: a little while ago, I thought the same thing. I thought “well, I don’t know… I don’t think my dogs need clothes; they look pretty cute as they are!” But I gave in one day and said “alright” when I was surfing around on the internet, looking at different yorkie outfits that were floating around on my mind, and I decided to buy one. Well it showed up in the mail two weeks later, I tried it out on my dog, and I fell in love instantly with the whole idea of it.

Well me neighbor came over about five minutes after I put the shirt on my yorkie, and she just would not shut up and stop gushing about how CUTE my yorkie was. I actually had to get out the door to go to a meeting, but I couldn’t get her out the door! She just kept talking and gushing and wanted to pet my dog, and I was put in this weird situation where I had to get out and tell her “Ok, look: you HAVE to go; I have a meeting to get to,” but she was petting my dog and I didn’t want to be the Grinch and be all “no, you can’t pet my dog any more and you have to leave, now.” It was kind of a funny situation. It’s AMAZING how much of a magnet these dogs are for attention and adoration! So for their sake, to help with their socialization, as I know Mikey has written about on this blog with his chihuahuas, I really recommend giving your yorkies a couple of outfits to sport. It’s a lot of fun, and they actually help with their socialization. So I’m a big proponent of the yorkie outfit to say the least.

So to those who argue that dog clothing is wrong because it’s not natural, I would say “well, sure, but in nature, we also don’t bring dogs into our home, feed them dog food, take them to the groomer…” and we could go on and on–there are ten thousand other things we could talk about here. I don’t really think that putting clothing on your dog is a big issue. As far as I’m concerned, you’re just enhancing his natural warmth. And as for the aesthetic component–the beauty and how it makes your dog look–I really don’t think my dog gives a crap about that. I doubt he even knows what he looks like, much less has vanity issues to deal with.

All joking aside, yorkie clothing is just about the cutest thing you will even encounter in your life. If you’re a yorkie owner and you don’t have yorkie clothes for him, I might have to wonder what the heck you’re waiting for–seriously. Head on over to the Chihuahua Store that Mikey has set up for us small dog owners, and check out the yorkie outfits. It has a great selection of clothes for yorkies that I think you’ll really like, and check it out! Hopefully I can write for Mikey’s Chihuahua site here again soon! xox -Jada

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Visiting my multi yorkshire terrior owning friend on the outskirts of town a little while ago, I was impressed to see all of these unique clothes for yorkies I had never seen anything like! She had these yorkie dresses and these little costumes for her toy dogs that made them look like into these indescribably cute little munchkins!

I find this is usually the case with small dog breed clothing, but with her yorkies it was just like taking the adorable factor of these small dogs and putting it on crack or something–it was almost too much to handle, seriously! My only regret in going is that I didn’t take my camera or my phone with me to snap a quick photo with! Oh well; lesson learned: never visit a toy dog enthusiast’s house without expecting something outlandish and bringing a camera to capture the priceless, adorable insanity of the moment!

But back to the yorkie clothes, I was so impressed by my friend’s collection that I decided to do whatever it takes to bring some of these quality clothes to the Chihuahua Shop, to add to the collection of quality small dog clothes designed for chihuahuas, yorkies, and other small breeds, especially the toy and teacup dog breeds.

Right now, we carry yorkie accessories here at the store, and some yorkie dog clothing like sweaters and hoodies and coats that you’re little yorshire terrier can wear to help him look even more fashionable and cute. These are catalogued alongside the chihuahua clothes and other outfits we carry for smaller dogs, so if you’re specifically looking for clothing for yorkies, you can click throgh to the pictures section of each listing and check them out to see if they’d fit your little doggie. Yorkies are adorable when they wear their tiny clothes! So when you finish reading this, head over to the shop (there’s a link below), and I’ll speak to you again soon! -Mikey

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