Never seen the programme but can guess what you mean.
I wouldn't say I 'like' it, and I grew up with working dogs and dogs that were very much a man's 'Best Friend' and companion, a far cry from anything like this.
BUT, as somebody who feels very strongly about animal abuse and lives their life to try their best to go against it, I can't put this high upon my scale of things we do wrong to animals.
Against cases of real cruelty and neglect, it isn't that bad. Plus if somebody goes to all the trouble of dressing a dog up and treating it as they would a child, they're unlikely to treat it badly and appear to love their pets in every instance of it I have experienced.
I wouldn't ever do it. Kya is my running companion and my protection, she's very much playing a traditional dog role. I did get hair dye on her once accidentally but that's as far as it goes!
