spotted in real life

Have you ever seen doggie boots in a pet product catalog? I have because I'm unable to resist looking through practically any catalog that's left in my mailbox, but I never thought I'd come across a real life dog wearing boots.

While talking home in the drizzle today, however, here's what I saw:

A dog wearing purple rain boots!

The dog looked perfectly content and not at all bothered by her footwear. I was intensely curious about the dog and her owner. Did the dog have a marked aversion to getting her feet wet? Or was this all the owner's idea and the dog was just good-natured and willing to put up with it?

In the interest of full disclosure, this isn't a photo of the actual dog that I saw. I didn't think quickly enough to ask if I could take a picture, and I only had my iPhone with me, which probably would have taken poor photos in the waning light.

Someday I aspire to carry my real camera with me everywhere and take all sorts of fabulous, spontaneous pictures for this blog. So far I've only gotten as far as buying the camera. Next I need to get a memory card (so that the camera can store more than 11 photos at a time) and read the manual.