Using the traditional method [scraps of paper and pirate hat] I have chosen a winner from the commenters to my post for the above hop. Kaylyn Davis I’ll be emailing you a .pdf of Alike As Two Bees. I hope you enjoy it.
And to resume normal service – well I thought I’d seen all kinds of armour but this really takes the Bonio:
All I can say is, it would have to be a very well trained dog.
Composite armour – wood, chain mail, rawhide and fabric – probably made around 1800 for the dog of a high ranking samurai. I think it looks quite jolly, bearing in mind how annoyed and aggressive the masks attached to human armour usually are.
But it’s still not a patch on the Royal Armouries elephant armour. I plan to make a trip to see that sometime soon.
Elin Gregory 
That’s rather impressive.
It is, but I can’t help giggling as I imagine my dogs reaction had we tried to make him wear such a thing. The leaping and shaking, pawing his face. Two minutes, tops, before he managed to scrape it off.
That is amazing, the dog armor as well as the elephant armor. A bit over the top, but amazing nonetheless.