I love Christmas and I always have done. This year looks set to be a fair bit different to normal – with many people unable to get together as they normally would have done. There may be a silver lining here with fewer of the traditional “family fallouts” that can occur when the perfect mixture of a few too many egg-nogs, a burnt turkey and a long term feud with the in-laws combine!
With fewer humans about for Christmas, we are going to pay extra special attention to the menagerie of pets that we have – currently standing at 3 dogs, 3 cats, 2 gerbils and a snake (not kept together, for obvious reasons!). While I can’t see them sitting round the table on Christmas day, I’m sure some of them could indulge in a game of “hunt the gravy bone”, or even act as a prop in charades… Before children became the Christmas focal point, we used to put presents for the pets under the tree (as I am sure many people always do), and we’re definitely going to reinstate that tradition. With Pets in mind, for a bit of fun, I decided to write some alternative lyrics to the Christmas Classic, “The Twelve Days of Christmas”. They are a bit contrived, but if you can be bothered, it sort of scans like the original!
On the first Day of Christmas, my dear pets gave to me:
1. A dog poo beneath the Christmas tree
2. Chewed up gloves
3. Stolen Pens
4. Balls of fur
5. Poison Rasins!
6. Claws a scratching
7. Mice a scuttling
8. Tongues a slobbering
9. Guilty Faces!
10. Beds a reeking
11. Muddy wipings
12. Pawprints unbecoming
Best Wishes and a very happy Christmas from Annelise and I and all the team at Hawthorn Vets!
