PSA: A Thought about Pets at Holiday Time

[scarlettina]

Quite some time ago, to my delight, I discovered that Zazzle.com offered custom postage. The last couple of years, I've made a point to poke around the site at holiday time to look at designs and to see if anything tickled me enough to make a purchase. Generally speaking, their postage costs twice what your standard postage stamp costs specifically

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[joyful_storm]

Is that Sophie with the driedel? That cat looks happy, anyhow. . .

[scarlettina]

That is, in fact, Sophie with a dreidel, but she picked it up to play with herself. I just grabbed the camera and took advantage of the opportunity. And you see? No reindeer antlers on her! :-)

[prettyshrub]

I suspect it is the look on the pet's face that people are going for. I confess to occasionally putting something small and light on my cat Jasper just to see his annoyed look. It never lasts more than a second though.

I am also not comfortable with dragging pets to get pictures with Santa. I know Seattle Animal Shelter makes some money off of it, but it seems like unnecessary stress. I'm kind of glad they were unable to do it this year.

[seankreynolds]

Hear, hear.

[kistha]

Agreed. There is the occasional crazy dog that likes it (not mine)but in general. NO.

[joycemocha]

Mocha was just plain snoopy about the Santa hat, which is why it ended up on her head. But it was just a lightly placed hat, nothing more, and relatively minor compared to her working clothes (though, being a Working Horse in her opinion, working clothes are one thing, frivolity another. She's very serious about Work).

[scarlettina]

And work is to be taken seriously. I suspect that working horses and working dogs understand the distinction.

[joycemocha]

Oh definitely so. I've more experience with the horses than I do with the dogs, but the horses I've known who are all about Work definitely know the difference. It took a while for Mocha to adjust to the anarchy of bareback riding, for example.