Pet day with Sir Sebastian

Uh, am I lucky for a moment... Have I just returned from my wonderful sun holiday and am I about to slip into a winter dip because of the doggy weather, the next party is coming up - let's just forget that Animal Day was approaching again! Sir Sebastian has had a week and a half of rain, but now he is being put in the sun again. I must have earned it, don't you think?

A party for all animals

Of course the 4th of October isn't just about me, I know that myself. Originally it was the great day of Saint Francis, who according to tradition was crazy about everything that flutters, flutters, crawls and struggles on this globe. So it's a feast for all animals on October 4th and that would be about time too, potdikkie. I mean, we animals are having a hard enough time all year round.

Rainforests are on fire, polar bears are puffing in their bikinis over a lukewarm polar sea, you have to at least drive to Barcelona to collect a visible load of dead insects on your windshield and in the pig flats and battery cages there's not much to laugh about either. May we have a moment? Can we? Well, thank you very much, also on behalf of the Party for the Animals. If you're wondering, yes, I've been approached for the position of party leader, but thank you very much. I'm too much of a people's friend to hold that position.

Statement

Okay, that being said, back to the issue of the day: being extra nice to me - I mean to animals in general. I've been thinking about last night... I just couldn't sleep through it. As an icon of the fashion scene, of course, I have my responsibilities, because I understand that I have an exemplary function. That's why I was thinking about what we, lingerie lovers, can do on Dierendag to make it all as much fun as possible for one day. At first I thought maybe we could give all our pets a nice little sneaker or a flashy boxershort as a present, but I quickly put that idea overboard again.

I seriously wonder how happy a random quadruped becomes from a squeezing bra on the body. Surprise a goldfish with a nice set of suspenders? Not going to be him, I suppose. A nice pair of lace panties to dress your pussy extra festively? I wouldn't even dare suggest it! No, as far as I'm concerned we're going to do things very differently this year, by making a symbolic gesture that fits these times of climate activism and concern for biodiversity. Take it from a beastly good fashion guru who knows what it's like to be a good animal: Dierendag anno 2020 is the perfect moment to make a strong political fashion statement!

Warm heart, cold buttocks?

"What are you thinking of in all your respectable fashion wisdom, Sir Sebastian?" I hear you're asking. Well, dear readers, I'll explain it to you. I think we should send out a signal of solidarity on October 4th this year. We're going to show that we care for the animals of this world. And the strength of our action is - here it comes - that we do it with our most powerful weapons: our lingerie and our flawless sense of style. What are we going to do? Quite simply, we draw a hard and clear line in the sand. We show the whole world that we know when it's been enough. We prove to anyone who wants to see it that we stand squarely behind every single member of the animal kingdom. On October 4th the whole world will see what happens when we all decide to...

NO lingerie to wear with animal prints! Yes, you read it right: this Animal Day nobody wears lingerie with animal prints! NO ONE! What?! Sir Sebas, you can't be serious! What about my supersensual Lingadore set with tiger prints?! It'll stay in the closet. But a little leopard pattern string is all right, right? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! My new bra with zebra stripes? No way! Even if you have a nice nightdress with a picture of a unicorn on it, it's still a slap in the face of all our animal friends! Dear people, it's a bit of a swallow for all of us, but this action only works if we do our bit hand in hand. Did you guys think all those kids these days liked to skip school for their climate strikes? Yeah, well, then. If we all form one closed front together, Animal Day 2020 will go down in the books as a turning point in history. We'd rather go naked than in an unfriendly and insensitive animal print - even under our clothes!

Impact

I personally think we're going to make an incredible impact with this. I wasn't inspired by the least of them for this action: by the streakers you used to see running over a football field, for example, but certainly also by the young people who annually ride the New York subway without pants on No Pants Day. I thought: we can do better than that! You guys no pants? Ha! We just don't have underpants! Or no underpants with giraffe pattern or snake print then, huh? And oh yeah, I mean, it's October, so let's put on something warm... turn the world upside down and sit at home with the flu for a week and don't worry. So come on, people, who's in? Let's all make a fist together, or a forepaw, that's also allowed, because it's only once a year Animal Day and we won't let this chance pass us by, will we?

...Oh, by the way, if for the occasion you'd rather just send a nice doggy bone or a bottle of bubbly my way, that's fine too!

Good luck with your brave actions and see you soon!

Love of your favorite people and animal friend Sir Sebastian.