i don't give my dog holiday treats because she's a monster. she weighs 130 lbs and it's all muscle. in the not too distant past, she brought home 2 human legs, 2 weeks apart. fortunately, they were from the same corpse. the police spent the intervening 2 weeks searching for the donor and never found it until after the second leg appeared and i had followed her to the location. she has a history of bringing me horrifing presents, up until then the decaying raccon head or putrid possum, thank god. yesterday, i looked out of the back door and she was dragging the highly mutilated remains of a festering deer that she'd found in the woods across the back yard. she doesn't deserve a holiday gift.
that said, she's my dog. i've had her since she was a baby and no one had better fuck with her. the neighbor down the street crosses to avoid me when he sees me because he complained that she barked at him and "we have guns in our house". he made me so furious that i replied. "that's okay, i have guns in my house, too, and if anything happens to my dog i'm coming to your house and using one on you." she's amonster but she's MY monster and i wouldn't take a million dollars for her. and i don't let her kiss me.
I have always provided my critters with "a special treat" on the holidays. Not that I think they understand why, just they understand "special treat". However, not all of us who have pets have a dog or cat. Some of us have "other". And yes, she is alive, she's just sleeping.
I answered the question that I did not give my pets gifts for the holidays only because I don't have a pet currently...
In a sense the response is misleading... if I had a pet the animal would get something special and he would also have a Christmas stocking hung on the fireplace mantle!
that said, she's my dog. i've had her since she was a baby and no one had better fuck with her. the neighbor down the street crosses to avoid me when he sees me because he complained that she barked at him and "we have guns in our house". he made me so furious that i replied. "that's okay, i have guns in my house, too, and if anything happens to my dog i'm coming to your house and using one on you." she's amonster but she's MY monster and i wouldn't take a million dollars for her. and i don't let her kiss me.
In a sense the response is misleading... if I had a pet the animal would get something special and he would also have a Christmas stocking hung on the fireplace mantle!