I hear you. I can see how dressing up animals in costumes and dyeing fur and doing other humanizing, cute things upsets some people. It used to upset me, too. But, what gets to me these days, is this indignation usually comes from non-vegans. I mean seriously. I lose sleep over the horrors, torture, animal insanity and abuse of what people accept as completely and totally okay every day multiple times a day in order to feed their taste buds. I'm fed up to the gills with it.
I think we need to worry about the abject horrors going on with our dinner plate. That's worth getting angry about.
There are a number of companies now that make supposedly-safe dyes for pets, dogs in particular. I've not done any research into it.
Me personally, I just finally got fed up with knowing my indignation about trivial things was hypocritical in the broad picture of animal welfare, so I finally made the commitment to stop being half-assed about it. I could go on about the journey, but bottom line, I find it difficult and challenging. I'm working my way through it and I have a new-found sense of priorities and perspective.
My take is, I'd rather someone think that little chick or bunny is CUTE rather than that same someone think that little chick or bunny is FOOD. At least that little chick isn't being ground up alive and that cute bunny isn't in someone's backyard pen waiting to be butchered or worse.
And, these are just my feelings on the subject. I KNOW that the vast majority of members here are not vegetarians or vegans, although I wish everyone was.
My comment is not directly to you [MENTION=31790]guineapigcraz27[/MENTION], but to this reaction in general. We get a lot of it, especially on Facebook with silly and totally innocent & safe costume photos.