Mine be like:
Hat? OK. No glasses? OK. Shaved beard, cut hair? OK. New shoes? I DON’T RECOGNISE YOU, SHHH! SHHH!
Closest thing for them to smell
Yup, pretty much. Eventually she gets used to the smell of the new shoes being of the old human, and stops caring about it. (In the meantime I just let her smell my hand, so she knows that I’m still myself, not some cat-eating alien abomination that took over the human and a threat to her well-being.)
New shoe smell masks the foot smell
The hat:
Growing up, everyone I knew with a dog you could rile the dog up just by putting on a mask.
I have dogs of my own now but neither of them react at all if you come in looking completely different. Why are mine defective?
My dog doesn’t like it when strangers have hats of any kind or hair that’s done up or curly. If your head is bigger than he thinks it should be, you’re enemy #1.
Humans have uncanny valley, dogs have poofy head syndrome.
What ancient danger did we evovle defensive instincts and predatory fears of?
Mine never reacted to different clothing either. He was a pretty chill guy in general.
If you went under the blankets, though, he’d desperately try to dig you out lmao
My husky goes ballistic with howling if you say “space camp” and it’s pretty much the only time she gets loud. She is very unlike most huskies lol
I had a friend with rottweilers who hated hats. They were awesome and oh so cuddly but gave me a good scare the first time I found out.
Never met a cat that seemed to care, or maybe I thought it was something else since a cat avoiding people isn’t uncommon.
That is an “of course I know what a cat looks like” type of cat
My cat but with me in long pant and safety shoe.
“Holy fuck intruder!” is what they will do.
Yo, don’t move, there’s something on your head…
Jokes on me, my cats can somehow recognize me from the sound of me walking up to the front door (and only me, not when anyone else is visiting)… No idea if anything can make them not recognize me
It’s a fedora, isn’t it
Are you wearing a chef’s hat? Who is on the menu?
Maybe he’s mad you don’t have food for him. He chonk
I think my cat prefers me when I’m wearing my myotorcycle helmet
maybe he thinks it doesn’t suit you 🤷♂️
Aaaahh! Who are you?! Where’s Uncle Slim?
“see this? this is what you look like in that stupid thing”
