Yep Mine have coats:
Basic idea for me is that even though they’re both long haired dogs, in the rain and cold it saves me time drying when they’re wet. And it keeps my older dog’s joints warm, and the younger one likes hers.
Now we added a lab so we’ll have to see how she deals with the concept when the weather shifts.
Been meaning to get one of the “waterproof sheets” for the spring and fall from Dover. Haven’t gotten around to it yet.
~Emily
I have and Italian greyhound and nothing “off the rack” fits, so I got his coat from Hound Togs. It fits perfectly, allows full range of motion and he loves the high neck and chest coverage.
My dog Tessa has a Weatherbeeta that we use in the winter.
I’m really not a dog coat person, but she loves to come with when I walk my son to and from school. The actual walking didn’t seem to bother her much, but she would shiver while we were waiting for him to come out of school in the afternoon. So at first I left her at home when it was really cold, but she was really bummed about it. She loves to go for walks.
So I bit the bullet and bought her a coat. I had to really look to find one that covered her underside, since her belly is nearly hairless, so I’m sure that’s where she loses a lot of her heat.
I feel really dorky, but she’s not shivering, and she’s getting her walks, so I’ll take it.
Her coat is just a little on the short side, and a little on the small side where the chest piece velcros, but the neck hole is a little too big. There’s also a collar with a leash hole, but the leash hole is nowhere near appropriately located, so I just fold her coat collar back, and hook in front of it.
Did you try that k9 coat? What was your impression?
yeah I did- best coat ever. Easy on/off, adjustable to fit a wide variety of body shapes, good coverage, very lightweight yet very warm and waterproof. No velcro- clips. Stayed on during highly athletic behaviors AND while running through thorn bushes. Quite durable. Easy to wash/dry.
I’d attach a pic of the Dane in his deep winter get-up wearing the K9 topcoat over a belly wrap warmer and his multi-colored rubber booties (he’d tear his feet up on icy ground other wise), he looks quite hilarious, but I don’t know how to attach pics.
wendy
thanks! i may give that one a try. while i love my foggy mountain coats, my dog wears a harness on hikes and i’d love to get a winter coat that can be easily worn with a harness. i see from their website, they can put a harness slot on their coats, or i could put the harness over the coat, given its low profile.
Does she have clothing:lol: She has a clothes chest, currently stored for the summer. She has a very nice horse blanket-style winter coat, a smart fall jacket, a little pink windbreaker, and several sweaters. And this past winter, they were all used a lot, to protect her chest and belly from the deep snow. The comments about shortness problems are right on the money. I have a mutt, and I suspect that we mutt owners have even more problems with fitting dog clothes because their proportions are so often less even - mine has a very deep chest and a long back, so she usually take an XL, though she’s only 60lbs.
And re: the :rolleyes: reaction to dogs in clothes, why? For some dogs it’s a practical solution - my dog feels the cold more with her arthritis now - and for some, it’s as pure an expression of work as herding sheep or tracking badgers. Some breeds are specialists in being fun; a Yorkie in a tam o’shanter may look silly but how is it really different than a Rottweiler doing schutzhund? The Yorkie “should” be hunting rats, the Rottie “should” be hauling a cart. Who cares?
Of course, the time my sister put driving goggles on her Yorkie, I felt it was a bridge too far.
I got a cheap raincoat at Petsmart for my GSD pup (5 months). Other than that, she goes nekkid. 
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