dressing your pets up for Xmas and buying them pressies

Esther1 You've just made a point I never considered before.

I shall now lodge a serious complaint with MissPuss.

I have bought her catnip 3 years running and have not received a single gift from her!

Yes! Everyone in our family buy their dogs and cats presents for Christmas.
My dog Buffy has a lovely Christmas collar.
The cat? No, you don’t touch the cat as she is very feisty but enjoys Christmas by wrecking the bottom of the tree.
Merry Christmas everyone!

Sorry to make a serious point but do beware of chocolate and dogs.They just don't mix.

Some years ago I left my westie in the bedroom where we were staying forgetting that there was a bar of chocolate in a shopping back. We returned after an hour and I noticed the silver foil on the floor. She'd got the chocolate out of the shopping bag, torn off the cardboard and silver foil and eaten the bar. I telephoned the vet and took her in immediately. She had 2 morphine injections and stayed in overnight on a drip. It cost me £130 10 years ago. My husband was holding her whilst I drove and he said he could feel her heart beat getting faster and faster. She could have died.

My thoughts on this are the same as Urmstongran but for one day if it gives the owners pleasure so be it but I do have a problem with "beer/wine" for dogs along with "Yoghurt" for sale in one of our local garden centres. There seemed to be a whole section of "treats" which made me think the world had gone mad.

Yes my dogs get presents, and they also have an advent calendar....each!

Iam mine love those Yak chews too ??

Peggy will be in kennels without Millie to keep her company this year We always leave favourite treats for Christmas Day and when booking in you can see all the other owners carrying new toys or treats.

It's just another day for a dog but it makes me feel better about leaving her.

We have never dressed our dogs up but I wouldn't hesitate to buy a coat if I thought a dog was feeling the cold.

Dreamies for my cats, one box each.

I have never dressed my dogs in clothes, don’t like to see a dog dressed up, sorry.

I hate to see animals dressed in silly outfits, but I do buy presents for my pets.

I remember asking a friend if she had bought her dog a present. She said she had, but couldn’t say what it was in front of him!

We had a party at dog training yesterday so my two wore bandana's with Happy Christmas on them. We had party games, statues, fastest recall etc. The humans had mince pies, the dogs had a bonio each. Good fun was had by all.

My dogs both have a new buffalo horn chew, as well as a Yak chew which they'll get to chew on Christmas Day, whilst they're in the utility, child safety gate in place to stop them eating the children's chocolate biscuits or other dangerous stuff.
They may even wear their bandana's as the children will no doubt be wearing Christmas tops.

It is another day of the week for Tara my cat. I think it ridiculous dressing them and buying presents.

I buy a large turkey so that the dogs get as much as we do. I don't buy them pressies specifically for Christmas but I'm forever buying them toys throughout the year. Normally I don't like dressing dogs up but one of my Pugs has had an awful phlegmy cough that's dragged on for weeks so bought her a jumper to keep her chest warm and the cough has finally cleared up. She'll be wearing the jumper till the weather improves. In fact I bought a second one so she can one in the wash and one on. My other female Pug gets very jealous when I'm changing the jumper and seems to want one of her own but she's not coughing so she's out of luck.

Whatever makes you happy I reckon - but personally would never buy a present for an animal, nor would I feel comfortable receiving one from an animal - but honestly don’t think I’m knocking what other people like to do. Each to their own and it’s what makes us all so gloriously and uniquely different.

Blimey Urmstongran, we agree ... again.

No gift and I believe dressing up pets is just so wrong. But plenty of treats and walks, and cuddles. Our dog is very much part of the family, but is a dog.

Yes, Sam always gets a gift , don’t see why not . He’s part of this family . He did get a snazzy bow tie from one of the grandkids last year but generally we don’t dress him up, he’s smart enough already

Pets or surrogate children? A no-no from me. We had dogs for over 20y as a family. A cavalier King Charles and 2 cocker spaniels. Lovely dogs. Not dolls.

I once posted some Christmas presents to Australia, including a present each for the dogs and cat

Postage is prohibitive now

Oliver Sprout not Proud!

Oliver Proud is a messy water SalsaQueen but I don't think that an ergonomic bowl would help

He takes chunks of food from the bowl, bypasses the tray, also the mat that the tray sits on, and proceeds to chew them on the floor.

I have TRIED to explain that the food comes from a pouch and is ready to eat, but he insists on behaving as if it is part of a wildebeest that he has (singlehandedly) brought down by skilfully stalking it while it was at the watering hole

I don't like to see animals wearing outfits. I think it's demeaning. I've always bought my cats (I've only got the one now) something for Christmas, and he has turkey or whatever we have for dinner at Christmas - although he has chicken most days.

This tear, he's got an ergonomic bowl (he's a messy eater) and a new catnip toy.

I have bought my grandson's cat a little pack of catnip.

Should anyone be foolish enough to try and dress her up, they wouldn't see Boxing Day. She's a fesity lass.

Of course they get presents. Why wouldn’t they? I don’t dress them up but they do wear a red bandana on Christmas Day.