Butterfly, poor dogs. They're getting their pleasure at the expense of the poor animal. That anyone would even try to dress up my cat!!!! I like diamonds too, sadly it's more within my budget to buy a nice pair of shoes than a lovely diamond (unless jewellery is more reasonable out there too, in which case I'm seriously starting to worry about my salary!). Also the passing on argument is only valid if you have kids. Shoes are just beautiful things, little pieces of architecture, beautifully engineered, designed, created, lovely, lovely things. ;-)