Knitted Pumpkin Jumper
Warm enough to still be worn in November.
Almost everything sold for one night in October is useless on the second of November. This is the exception: a dog jumper that happens to have a pumpkin on it, not a costume pretending to be knitwear.
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- Ribbed acrylic knit with a roll neck and hem
- Pumpkin knitted into the back, not printed on
- Seven sizes, 21cm to 64cm along the back
- Black or navy, both with orange ribbing
- Front legs only, so nothing crosses the belly
Colour: Black
Size: XXS
Why you'll love it
Made for happy, healthy pets
It outlives the night
A knitted jumper is a jumper first and a costume second. Once the pumpkin stops being seasonal it is still the warmest thing a thin-coated dog owns, which is more than any cape or hat in this range can say.
Sized for very small dogs
The chart starts at a 21cm back and a 16cm neck, which genuinely fits a chihuahua or a kitten. Most seasonal knitwear starts two sizes up and leaves the smallest animals with nothing.
Knitted, not stuck on
The pumpkin is worked into the knit rather than glued or heat-pressed, so there is no appliqué edge to lift and nothing for a bored animal to pick off and swallow.
Good fit if
- Thin-coated and small breeds that feel a cold room
- Very small animals, since the chart genuinely starts at 21cm
- Anyone who wants the purchase to still make sense in January
- Pets that tolerate a garment but not anything on the head
Look elsewhere if
- Your dog is double-coated and already too warm indoors
- You want a costume that reads as a costume
- The animal chews wool and knitwear
Knitted in, not stuck on
Seasonal pet clothing usually carries its motif as a heat-pressed transfer or a glued appliqué. Both have an edge, that edge lifts after a few washes, and a lifted edge is something an animal can pick at and swallow. Here the pumpkin is worked into the knit itself, in a contrasting yarn, so there is no separate piece to come away.
It also survives washing in a way a transfer does not. The motif cannot crack or peel because it is structural rather than applied, which is the difference between a jumper that lasts several winters and one that looks tired by December.
Back length is the binding number
Ribbed knit stretches generously around the barrel of the chest and hardly at all along its length. That asymmetry decides how to size it. The chest figure in the chart has give in it and will forgive a couple of centimetres either way. The spine figure has none, and a jumper that is short there rides up behind the front legs and bunches at the armpits.
So read the first column and ignore the temptation to size on weight. Two dogs of identical weight can differ by eight centimetres along the back, and the shorter, deeper one will be swimming in the size that fits the longer, leaner one.
Which animals a jumper is actually for
Acrylic knit is insulation, and insulation is a problem for anything that already carries its own. A husky, a collie or a long-haired cat in a heated room does not need this and will pant in it. The animals it genuinely helps are the thin-coated ones: whippets, chihuahuas, greyhound crosses, sphynx and rex cats, and elderly animals of any breed that have stopped regulating heat well.
For those, a jumper on a cold evening is a real kindness rather than a costume, and the fact that it carries a pumpkin in October is incidental. Check the ears and the belly after twenty minutes indoors; warm ears and fast breathing mean it comes off.
Washing acrylic without ruining it
Acrylic tolerates water well and heat badly. Cool machine wash on a gentle cycle, then reshape it while it is damp and dry it flat rather than hanging it, because a wet knit hung on a line stretches under its own weight and comes back longer than it went in.
Keep it out of the tumble dryer entirely. Acrylic does not shrink the way wool does but it does felt and stiffen under heat, and a stiffened rib loses the stretch that was doing the fitting.
In the box
Everything you need
- Knitted jumper in the colour and size you choose
How it works
Simple, from basket to doorstep
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Delivered
Fast, tracked dispatch straight to your door, and a happier pet before you know it.
The details
Specifications
- Material
- Acrylic
- Cut
- Roll neck, front legs only, ribbed hem
- Colours
- Black or navy, both with orange ribbing
- Back length
- 21cm at XXS to 64cm at 2XL
- Neck
- 16cm at XXS to 48cm at 2XL
- Weight
- 38g to 199g by size
- Care
- Cool machine wash, reshape damp, dry flat
Size guide
| Size | Back | Chest | Neck |
|---|---|---|---|
| XXS | 21cm | 24cm | 16cm |
| XS | 27cm | 28cm | 18cm |
| S | 31cm | 32cm | 20cm |
| M | 35cm | 38cm | 24cm |
| L | 45cm | 48cm | 32cm |
| XL | 51cm | 52cm | 34cm |
| 2XL | 64cm | 68cm | 48cm |
The supplier's own figures, unaltered. Size on the back column first; the chest has stretch in it and the neck is a roll that gives further. Note the jump between M and L is ten centimetres, so a dog measuring 38 to 44cm sits awkwardly between them and is better in the L.
Cool wash, reshape damp, dry flat, no dryer. If the ribbing at the neck or hem starts to gape after a season, a short soak in cool water and a firm reshape while drying will bring most of it back.
Good questions
Before you buy
Black. The listing names the colourways Orange and Navy Blue, but the photographs show a black garment and a navy one, both with orange ribbing. We have named them from the pictures rather than the label.
Not if you keep it off heat. Cool wash, reshape it while damp and dry it flat. Acrylic survives washing better than wool but it will felt and stiffen in a tumble dryer.
The back length, because a knit stretches around the chest but not along the spine. Measure collar to tail base and take the size that matches or slightly exceeds it.
They are black. The supplier names the two colourways Orange and Navy Blue, but only the ribbing is orange and it is orange on both. We have named them Black and Navy from the photographs so the swatch matches what arrives.
No. It is a front-legs-only jumper, so the belly and hindquarters are open. That makes it quick to put on and means nothing is in the way when they squat.
Last reviewed 30 August 2026