Mine be like:
Hat? OK. No glasses? OK. Shaved beard, cut hair? OK. New shoes? I DON’T RECOGNISE YOU, SHHH! SHHH!
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.)
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.
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
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.
