A man choose to dress as a dog over marrying his girlfriend .
Theatre technician Tom, 32, loves dressing as a puppy so much that when
he was given the ultimatum by his fiancรฉ Rachel about what he loved more
she was unfortunately sidelined.
Tom – who was crowned Mr Puppy UK – is just one of the pups featured in
Channel 4 ‘s latest documentary Secret Life of Human Pups , which
explores the weird world of ‘human pups’ – grown men who enjoy dressing
up as dogs.The craze has around 10,000 followers in the UK who are interested in pup play and being kept on a leash by their ‘handlers’.
dalmatian called Spot which has cost him around ยฃ4,000 so far over the
ten years he has being enjoying the craze.
“You disappear, you start chasing puppy toys and people give you ear
scratches and treat you like a puppy. You disappear so much into the
head space that you don’t stop to think but you crave it and you want it
and you wish for it. It’s magic, it just really is genuinely magic,” he
explains.
“I am strongly happily, proud of who I am and what I look like and I don’t care about what anyone else thinks.”
“He wanted to be able to explore different avenues and I just didn’t
understand it. I didn’t want to understand it then.”It was him having to
make a choice between what he wanted to do or me, and it was a better
choice for him. He is two different things when he is Spot and when he
is Tom, which is what I suppose I walked away from.”
absolutely zero romantic involvement as the pair insist it is just
purely the fun of the pup play.
