@Background Pony  
They have fake pony ears and tails. and also Fake wings that they can apparently fly with.

@Background Pony
 
The owl is different. He can’t communicate with twilight, along with the other pets (opal, winona, etc). Spike on the other hand speaks the english language like the ponies. Plus they trust spike to watch their pets in “Just for Sidekicks.” If he was a pet, they wouldn’t let him pet-sit. That’s like letting my cat watch my friend’s pet goldfish, and rabbit. It wouldn’t make sense.
 
Did you see the “Secret of my excess?”  
Twilight takes him to a Pony Doctor FIRST. When it turns out that he can’t help, he RECOMMENDS a vet. If she saw him as a pet, than she would have taken him there first. Watch the episode again, to get your facts straight.
 
Spike sleeping in a basket, doesn’t seem all bad, when you take into account that he is a baby dragon,meaning he is small. He’s too small for a normal bed, so the basket is another option (it’s just a normal basket, no need to say a dog sleeps in it. There is a such thing as a “baby basket”).

Owlicious does it too. Is he not pet according to you?
 
Seriously, Spike sleeps in dog basket and is taken to veterinarian in MAIN SHOW, your argument is invalid from beginning to end.

@Beau Skunky  
“Pet”.
 
And therein lies the root of all the problems, of the ridiculous move to turn Spike into a dog in that movie.
 
When next your “pet” reorganizes your book shelves, prepares your meals and snacks, makes tea and cleans your house, please inform us. I myself.

@Takashi.0  
Well, you have to keep in mind that some of the vocal anti-EqG posters have a considerably lower opinion of DHX and the people who work there.

@Beau Skunky  
…I’m at a loss for words.
 
It boggles my mind how people could think this movie could possibly as bad as a franchise with thong diapers.
 
Sure, some of the promo art where they had lipstick and such didn’t seem so encouraging but…
 
Thong diapers!
 
You’d have to purposefully try to make something that terrible, something that is the exact opposite of DHX’s MO!

Spike is best pet.
 
@Takashi.0  
I’m serious… Look it up for yourself. It’s all kinds of “messed-up.”  
Also, they probably wouldn’t be very effective diapers.

@Background Pony  
Um. You do remember that Twilight took him to the regular doctor first, right? Does that suggest that she thinks of him as a pet?

@Beau Skunky  
>thong diapers
 
…I’m sorry, WHAT.

@Background Pony - Well, when you think about it, Spike is almost as much “pet” as he is “#1 assistant”. He sleeps in a cat-basket, and in one episode gets taken to the vet.
 
I suspect Spike will handle becoming a dog a lot easier than Twilight will handle becoming a human.

@Beau Skunky  
Yeah, my problem was never with the design of dog!Spike, it was with his apparent demotion from “#1 assistant/good friend” to “pet”. Which, of course, may not be what actually happens in the movie.

I actually think dog Spike is cute to. I never understood all the “drama” over that.

@Background Pony  
are you fucking kidding right?

Dog Spike is actually kinda cute.

@Beau Skunky  
Really, EqG doesn’t look that outlandish in terms of design compared to its competitors. All of them have stuff like wearing earrings made out of bobby pins, absolutely crazy hair, and even weirder dresses.
 
It might be to the weakness of EqG in the market that they look so relatively plain.

@Itsthinking  
True, and worse yet I heard the old “Bratz Baby” dolls have thong diapers…  
(Yeah, that’s not creepy…)
 
So believe me E.G. could be much worse.

Every time someone compares EqG to Bratz, I’ll remember this picture. EqG doesn’t look like they have a gallon of collagen in their lips.

What’s with the wings?

@Background Pony  
It’s their hair.

Why do they have tails and no one else?

I would lol so hard of they were.

We can have that arranged, OP.

they might as well be

Agreed, I’d slit my wrist if I saw them doing that.