Xmas for pets

Sorry - when I said I hate it I meant the commercialism.

My little cat will get a couple of toy mice to add to her vast collection😄

My cat will have a little piece of cooked chicken finely chopped up.

I don't bother buying commercial pet presents. I bought an advent calendar a few years back and it contained 24 tiny treats that could have been bought as a normal bag for a couple of quid - the calendar cost about £7! Rip off.

We always bought presents for pets, and I’ve bought a little something for the dog at the house where we’ll be at Christmas.

My best doggy 🎄memory was at least 15 years ago. Friends with 3 dogs were staying for Christmas, so with ours that made 4.
On maybe the 28th I was finally stripping the turkey in the kitchen, when I turned round to see all 4 dogs sitting in a row, looking the picture of good manners and hope! 😂

Of course they all had some of the bits with their dinners.
All 4 RIP now, 😰❤️

I never use to buy my dog any presents but I’ve gone soft in old age. She does have an advent calendar- ok what’s inside is a rip off but she does enjoy it being opened and then having the small treat inside. At Christmas I get a few extra treats but no present and she will have some turkey meat - usually the bits we don’t eat.

Being a rescue, my little girl sadly does not seem to recognise meat as food. She only eats cat food. I will offer her Turkey though.

I over head a lady say in ASDA. "I was trying to put a Santa hat on the cat and she bit me". That said it all.

I have always given my cats either a little of the food we eat, that I know the like, (pork or duck) or an extra portion of cat food.

The very best present for a cat, is much the same as the preferred present to a one year old child: the wrapping paper someone's present came out of!

My dogs have always had a new toy and a full Christmas dinner on Christmas day. Strange now I dont have a dog I miss their enjoyment of it.

I had an email about "Pet gifts" the other day, although I don't have an animal at the moment I can't honestly say I ever gave mine a gift.

Never gave the outside working dogs anything outside other than their usual food, but for DD2’s Little Dog, there’s a pack of (doggy) Christmas sausages waiting here for him.

*Again, I’ve absolutely no problem with how others choose to spend their money.

this Christmas will break my heart. we lost my darling boy in the summer. Patch was a rescue and it took 4 years and a lot of stitches for me before he fell totally and utterly in love with me. i had never had a more soppy dog sadly he had diabetes come on suddenly due to his previous history we could not inject him we took him once more to Clarach to lie on the beach. the holiday took it all out of him but on the wednesday he lay on the beach in the sun loving it. he stopped eating Thursday he went blind he could not move i carried him which normally he would not tolerate and on the Saturday i took him to the vet. he had a sedative but he was barely conscious anyway but i sang you are my sunshine to him then held him as he slipped away
sorry to be morbid we do have another little dog also a rescue had him about 5 years but its hard to catch him he does not like being picked up except odd occasions. he is such a lovely dog though and i know he has taken losing Patch badly as he was his pal.
we will be away at Clarach for what will be a rough Christmas. our little dog Moo does not like toys but he likes some treats so i shall just make up a nice bag to take with us. we do all we can to ignore Xmas so that is just something i normally would do anyway.

Last year Milo and Ripley’s Christmas present was a beautiful quilted cushion with their names embroidered on it.

We don’t have a dog now but I never bought ours a toy for Christmas although she did have a few, favourite ones replaced when needed.
I do have a problem with giving China my ££’s and I am feeling hypocritical now…..
A few years ago our garden centre was giving away squeaky chickens if you spent over a certain amount. I took it to Australia forDD’s dog and he adored it. DD rationed play with it to make it last and I have kept a lookout for a replacement for about 5years. This year the garden centre restocked and I bought 3. That should last him.
Re. food on Christmas Day, our dog always got extra juicy things in her bowl but that tended to happen regularly anyway.
Do whatever you want to do. It’s Christmas after all🧑🏻‍🎄

Some friends with 2 Flatcoat retrievers stayed with us more than once for Christmas. One of their Flatties, a really lovely boy called Charlie, took a great interest in everybody’s Christmas presents. Whenever anyone was opening one, he’d be there to see what you’d got!
Of course he’d have his own presents too.
Long RIP now, ❤️🐶

And a sister’s dog used to sit and ‘guard’ the presents under the tree. Presumably he could smell edibles like chocolate - he never tried to open any though.

Likewise, when the half eaten turkey was taken back to the kitchen after dinner, he’d sit and ‘guard’ that too - but never tried to scoff any himself. I’m sure they’d have given him some with his dinner, though.

labazs

this Christmas will break my heart. we lost my darling boy in the summer. Patch was a rescue and it took 4 years and a lot of stitches for me before he fell totally and utterly in love with me. i had never had a more soppy dog sadly he had diabetes come on suddenly due to his previous history we could not inject him we took him once more to Clarach to lie on the beach. the holiday took it all out of him but on the wednesday he lay on the beach in the sun loving it. he stopped eating Thursday he went blind he could not move i carried him which normally he would not tolerate and on the Saturday i took him to the vet. he had a sedative but he was barely conscious anyway but i sang you are my sunshine to him then held him as he slipped away
sorry to be morbid we do have another little dog also a rescue had him about 5 years but its hard to catch him he does not like being picked up except odd occasions. he is such a lovely dog though and i know he has taken losing Patch badly as he was his pal.
we will be away at Clarach for what will be a rough Christmas. our little dog Moo does not like toys but he likes some treats so i shall just make up a nice bag to take with us. we do all we can to ignore Xmas so that is just something i normally would do anyway.

So sorry Labazs, we all miss our pets when they go, they’re part of the family. But he had such a good life with you.

Think more than twice before buying squeaky dog toys. They get over-enthusiastic in the first few days and the noise can/will drive you nuts.

I stand in the Pet section of Sainsbury 'testing' all the squashy toys looking for something non-squeaky.

My cat will eat the same as usual, there is only one make he'll eat, he won't touch fresh chicken, Turkey, fish etc. The only new toys he'll have are conkers, he's not interested in any thing else. He won't touch a catscratcher of any type, and won't go in a cat bed. He's so fussy over what and how he likes things to be that I've given up tryong to spoil him.

CabbageWars13

Think more than twice before buying squeaky dog toys. They get over-enthusiastic in the first few days and the noise can/will drive you nuts.

I stand in the Pet section of Sainsbury 'testing' all the squashy toys looking for something non-squeaky.

My dog loves her squeaky tuggy toys but the squeak doesn’t last for long ( she still has all of her toys from puppy hood so she isn’t destructive at all; it’s only her Tuggy toys that lose their squeak). So I’ve bought a bag of squeakers and opened up her furry tuggy toy and replaced them. The ones made from actual rabbit skin are too tough to cut open. The company did replace one when I told them how disappointed she was when her new toy stopped squeaking but it only lasted a week . I’ve never had a dog that loves toys as much a this one.

I don't have a dog myself, but have a huge on-going love affair with my daughter's dog (my grand-dog) I've already bought her a soft toy which I know she will not massacre as she just loves being given new toys, and will carry it round for ages till eventually bits (ears/arms/legs) will get chewed - but that is months away!! Definitely turkey for her on Christmas day and for my son's dog too (she's being given a hard chewy toy). I couldn't possibly buy christmas presents for the grand-children, and not buy something for the dogs.........

i do not have any pets, but some people treat there pet like any other member of the family and if they want to do a santa letter and a stocking then great, it is just fun for christmas. my son has two dogs and they will get treats the same as them and the grandchildren.

I think you're all barmy.

emilie

I think you're all barmy.

And we're absolutely fine with that!

Last Christmas there were four dogs in the house on Christmas day. SIL had bought them all a toy. The cocker spaniel, Hungarian visla and the cavapoo all went home with theirs completely in tact. Our Border Terrier demolished his in five minutes flat. No, I don't buy him Christmas presents but he might, just might have some turkey if he's a good boy. I wouldn't be without a dog but he does have to fit in and have good manners!