So Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates it and Happy Holidays to those who celebrate other holidays...
We celebrate Christmas - and the dogs (Sasso, Pickles and Dinglehopper) love Christmas.
They love it so much so that on December 21st, while my boyfriend and I were at work, they took it upon themselves to open most of the presents that were under the tree...
When I came home I said "oh shit" out loud as I didn't know what my boyfriend had under the tree and instantly had images of myself lugging 3 dogs to the Veterinary Emergency Clinic if they had gotten into something toxic.
After I realized that they had not gotten into anything toxic (as they had mainly opened their presents) the situation was kind of funny... for a few, brief, moments.
I swept up the wrapping paper and as I went to get a dust pan Dinglehopper went over, lifted his leg and pissed all over my newly formed mountain of wrapping paper.
Then I was somewhat mad - though I knew Dingle was on Vanectyl P which makes him pee A LOT - so I should have took the dogs out for a pee before cleaning up the mess.
On Christmas Day prior to opening presents the dogs posed for a few pictures.
Dingle had his Christmas party collar on, Sasso had his tie on for the special occasion, but Pickles had nothing.
To ensure Pickles didn't feel left out my boyfriend dug through the dog drawers in search of an outfit.
However all he could come up with was boots and a Hallowe'en hood.
You can tell he was miserable:
As I just mentioned the dogs opened most of their presents before Christmas. I re-wrapped most of Dingle's presents... my boyfriend did not re-wrap the stuff for his dogs... so in the mountain of presents for the dogs...
...Dingle had the most (including one of the large ones):
For Christmas Dingle got: lots of dental treats, Old Mother Hubbard Cookies, A skunk ball, a toy that doesn't have stuffing (they seem to last best with our dogs), and a bed.
The dogs open their own presents. It was cute and funny until Sasso got carried away and ripped open Dingle's new bed while taking off the wrapping paper. A video of this may follow, if I review it and determine I did not swear my head off when I watched Sasso rip into the bed.
Due to the unfortunate event of Sasso ripping Dingle's new bed he didn't actually get the bed until today, after I repaired it as best as possible.
Luckily it only cost me $9 at Winter Woofstock... and it wasn't so much of a bed as it was a mat... that matches his other new bed (see entry below).
My boyfriend bought a light up ball for his dogs.
Dingle loved it - I couldn't believe how interested he was in it.
Dingle has no use for toys (and yet I continue to buy them), but he was mesmerized by the ball.
After thinking about it for a bit I have come to the conclusion that he likes it because it's really bright and he, with his eyesight deteriorating from Progressive Retinal Atrophy, can see it very well.
My boyfriend bought that ball at Woofstock... I am going to look into getting another one for Dingle... and if any other light up toys exist I would be interested in those as well. I'll check EBay but if you know of any other place to get light up toys please let me know!
Dingle spent quite some time guarding that ball from the other dogs.
Or shall I say he was guarding it from Pickles (Dingle hates Pickles...)
At one point he sat on it like it was his egg:
The boys had their doggy friend Lexi over to help them celebrate Christmas:
After dinner when Lexi (and her owner) left the dogs zonked out...
Here's Sasso the sleepy old man (he's 10)...
And as I mentioned I fell asleep as well... far earlier than I normally do.
That was our Christmas...
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