Hairless cat with sweater

National Dress Up Your Pet Day is a light-hearted, novelty day of celebration and should stay that way; it’s not about forcing a dog or cat to suffer humiliation or discomfort for human amusement.

The moment 24-year-old Phoebe Gill saw a picture of Stitch, the one eyed bald kitty, she knew she had to adopt her. “She had an injury to her eye, which would have been cured with medication but her breeder didn't take her to a vets,” the rescuer writes. “When it got worse, the breeder gave her up and the vet took her in and did the surgery to remove the eye as it was too late to be saved.” Still, this didn’t stop the woman from seeing beauty in her: “[I] fell in love at first sight, and…

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