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Dear Santa: I want …
By Gina Spadafori
December 19, 2007
Time for a little holiday fun. If your pet (or pets, if you have lots!) could wish for something to magically arrive on Tuesday, what would it be?
I’ll start out, with my Sheltie Drew’s wish:
Dear Santa,
I’m closing my eyes really, really hard so you can hear me better. What I want is very important, you see. Clara (she’s a cat, but you know that, right Santa?) and I want for the retrievers to quit shaking water on us ever time they are wet. Which is like all the time for them.
Really, it’s not funny. Some of us prefer to keep ourselves tidy and do not appreciated having stinky, dirty water splashed on us. And we really do not appreciate how they smirk and then pretend to be surprised when we act offended.
Santa, in summation, a little consideration is all we ask.
On behalf of Clara as well,
Love, Drew
What would your pet ask for? Jump in!
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Snow to play in, water to swim in, swamps to run around in, frisbees, balls, and lots of fowl to retrieve.
But then, they’re retrievers…
Comment by ramin — December 19, 2007 @ 12:05 am
on behalf of kitties Brooklyn, Mac, lil’7 and Harlem . . . Santa could you please inject some maturity into Yankee?! Pretty Please!!
Dot would like to request less noisy construction around the ‘hood this spring and some nice big mud puddles. I’m sure she would like a blizzard or 2, but I’m not sure how much snow drift diving I’m up for this winter, so use your own discretion on that one, OY!! ;)
Thanks Santa!
Comment by straybaby — December 19, 2007 @ 12:45 am
eep! forgot to add:
that’s a darn cute pic of drew!! :D
Comment by straybaby — December 19, 2007 @ 12:47 am
Dear Santa,
I don’t need much. I got a good home, and some fine humans, but I would LOVE a refrigerator with easy doggie access stuffed with hotdogs, and endless marrow bones. Is it too much to ask for a little more meat around here?
My brother Finney doesn’t know (and doesn’t want to know) much about these internets, and he asked me to write for him. He would like a new dog bed with a raised edge for a built in snout pillow-he’s got quite a honker you know. He requests that the dog bed never be moved or washed and that visiting dogs are not allowed on it.
But what we really want more than anything is more time off leash walkies— Beach, woods, swamps, fields, ponds, all good!
Oh and Santa, I wouldn’t mind perfume in my stocking. Not that doggie stuff, I want the real thing from Paris preferably.
Wags,
Charlee
Comment by nancy freedman-smith — December 19, 2007 @ 4:31 am
Dear Santa,
I want Summer! Make the ice and snow go away! I want to play with my friend Josie in her yard, and my cousin Stella in her yard, and my friend Jack in—well, maybe Jack can come visit Stella or Josie with me, since he has BIG pack that kinda scares me, especially his big brother, Buster…hey, can I have a yard of my own?
And new stuffies?
Ice cream? Can I have ice cream again? And venison? Can you make Mom give me more frozen carrots, too?
Thanks, Santa!
Wags,
Addy
Comment by Lis — December 19, 2007 @ 10:00 am
Dear Santa,
We have been very good little pups this year (you can ask Mom - I think she forgot all about the incident with Petey and the garbage can)! For Christmas we would like: bully sticks, new coats that keep our legs warm, stuffies and squeakies. Thanks Santa! We’ll leave lots of water and bones for you by our crates! Oh, and if you can just take those silly hats with the bells that Mom bought for us to wear for Christmas, and give them to some other dogs we won’t mind!
Thanks and Merry Christmas,
Dante, Fellini, Isabella, Star, Petey and Fin
Comment by JP — December 19, 2007 @ 10:53 am
I want my mom and dad available 24/7, so I can keep an eye on them, you know, that Lassie thing. Oh,wait, they both work at home and almost always take me with them when they go out. Guess I’m mostly there on that one.
Ok, how about all the cat food, cheese and pizza crust I can eat anytime I want it? Please oh please please please
Niki the collie boy
Oh, yeah, and you can bring home more of those kittens to foster. LOVE those little guys!
Comment by Susan Fox — December 19, 2007 @ 10:57 am
Dear Santa
Please take away that IKEA loft bed. I far prefer sleeping on the bed to some rubbish foam dog matress.
Love, Avey
Comment by emily — December 19, 2007 @ 11:32 am
Dearest Mr. Santa,
I just want to be with my mom. At all times. No matter if it is running in the grass, or going to the post office, or getting the oil changed (well, o.k. I will choose the running in the grass option, if I can).
And please let everyone on the planet pet me. Around the ears, mostly, with some butt scratches thrown in.
Thank you,
Marie Piquette
Comment by Alexandra — December 19, 2007 @ 11:38 am
Dear Santa,
My human doesn’t feed me and she beats me, too. I’m starving! I’m a poor starving kitty who has no home!
Okay, I do have a home. With mean humans who don’t feed me enough… I mean, at all!
All I want for Christmas is a giant self-feeder bigger than I am full of kitty kibble so I can climb inside and gorge myself into a stupor. That’s all I ask, really. It doesn’t even have to be very good food, because I’m STARVING.
Once I was fat, and my stomach swung from side to side when I ran. Now I’ve been reduced to digging in the trash, Santa. My cruel human has taken to calling me a DOG. You see how horrible she is? You see how pitiful and pathetic I am? You feel sorry for me, don’t you, Santa? Don’t you?
If you don’t, you SUCK.
Love and kisses,
Hermes, the most pathetic cat ever
Comment by Katherine — December 19, 2007 @ 11:59 am
Dear Santa -
I just want to be with my mom all the time. I get really nervous when she’s away. The cats (Magic, Chantel and Jezebelle) are nice but can’t compare to a human! We ALL want unlimited people food - mainly roast beef and turkey - but will settle for chicken. I’d like my own bed in every room in the house - not just most of them. Most of all, we want other dogs and cats to be as lucky as we are - we have a home!
Love, Sunny and his cats
Comment by Carol — December 19, 2007 @ 12:45 pm
Dear Santa,
I just read about your recent collision and we hope you are okay. I just know they will find you. At least I THINK MANY OF THEM WILL FIND YOU AGAIN. Even if some of them are banning your trees.
Love,
Dennis, Family, and Blanchita
Enjoy the link folks!! A Must Read GRIN.
http://www.newsmax.com/smith/s.....58254.html
…and if the recently passed 2 feet thick, 3,500 page Omnibus energy bill hadn’t mandated replacement energy efficient bulbs, the Reindeer’s nose bulb would not have been replaced by a Chinese made red LED that was so bright that it blinded the Chinese pilot causing the incident. The Chinese foreign ministry reminds that Santa refused to sign the Law of the Sea Treaty and thus has no legitimate claims of access over international waters. Santa advised he didn’t sign LOST because of his Constitution and a concern over the loss of sovereignty over the Claus Homestead and Elf workshops.
As a final note, the accident cause is being investigated by the FDA Labs who will determine the cause which falls under the recently signed US-Sino FDA agreement…
Merry Christmas all! Happy Chanuka too.
Comment by Dennis — December 19, 2007 @ 1:18 pm
Dear Santa,
I have included a link http://tinyurl.com/39vdf6 for the gift I would most like in the whole world. That way I can be a GOOD DOG and not touch duh can, while still pursuing my avocation of “garbage hound”
Your Friend
Orbit
Comment by Schnauzer — December 19, 2007 @ 1:47 pm
Dear Santa:
We would like for all shelters to become NO KILL and also for Peace on Earth.
Could you also send us some gfilthy fish cause we’ve been really good and unselfish this year?!
Ida & Teddy
Comment by 2CatMom — December 19, 2007 @ 2:26 pm
My dogs and I want an end to puppy mills, everywhere. They’re tired of watching me run around either screaming or crying every time I have to read another article about one.
Comment by Carol — December 19, 2007 @ 2:52 pm
I know what my dog would want for christmas it seems it never leaves his mind. Ever since I snaged him off the streets and gave him his name. His personality just seem to say it all…His name is Oliver (after Oliver Twist get it)
and what does Oliver wants, Is an endless supply of food. He’s never full and he seems to have to this look that says, “Please sir may I have some more?”
at least he’s polite.
Comment by Teri S. — December 19, 2007 @ 3:55 pm
Lillie, purchased four years ago as an Aussie is a Border Collie no doubt, and I am sure a little of something else. She looks up in the sky at those big birds flying and wishes she had wings so she could catch them, or maybe just fly with them. She has been known to jump high enough to catch some and bring them to her crate and just leave them lay so everyone can see her catch as she seems to be so proud.She would also love to help Santa keep his reindeer in line.
Comment by M Burke — December 19, 2007 @ 4:36 pm
Dear Santa,
We’ve been VERY good this year and we can’t wait to see you. Mom says we’ll leave cookies and milk out and we must not touch them. I think Buddy and I can be trusted, but I don’t know about Ms. Sally.
Buddy [rescued Shih Tzu/Havanese] wants a new raincoat. He HATES getting wet. He says you can skip the boots - he’ll just walk around the puddles, even if it means walking an extra mile just so his delicate paws will stay dry.
Ms. Sally [rescued Shih Tzu] says to surprise her. Anything at all, as long as it’s edible. And for Buddy to stop chasing her.
As for me [MeeToo, rescued Shih Tzu], I want lots and lots of squeak toys. Mommy says that might be a problem and if it is, I’ll settle for a body massage for a whole hour. And if it’s not asking too much, Santa, could you get me some baby t-shirts to wear around the house? Even though the heat’s on, I’m a little guy and it gets a little drafty.
We ALL want turkey pieces and maybe just a tiny taste of the pumpkin pie, just to see if we like it.
Oh yes, and Rocky the Betta would like a nice treasure chest for his fish bowl.
But most of all, Santa, we just want to spend the day with Mommy.
And Santa, one more thing? If there’s any way you can do it, please give the animals in the shelters a nice meal so their tummies are full.
Love,
MeeToo
Comment by Lynn — December 19, 2007 @ 4:49 pm
My two collies would love to have new food balls. they love them and push them all around the floor even after they are empty. At the moment they are sharing one, so I guess Santa will have to bring another one. Nancy and her two kids, Thunder and Teal.
Comment by Nancy Weaver — December 19, 2007 @ 4:56 pm
Dear Santa;
I don’t want much, but I really need something to eat. Mom took all of the crunchy food and gooshy food out to the big can (the one even Hek can’t get into) and started doing something with a lot of bowls and stuff. The nice vet says I look great, and my blood test and weight are perfect, but how can that be true when I haven’t had anything AT ALL to eat since April? I’ve been very good, so please, please, bring me something to eat.
And if you could help with the stupid cats, taking Hek back to Iraq and making Mouse stop kneading on me at night would be nice.
Love, Puck
PS: Hek says he wants OUT OUT OUT so he can rape, murder and pillage (although I think Mom said the vet tutored him).
Comment by Carol PW — December 19, 2007 @ 5:48 pm
Dear Santa,
All I want is for my stepsister not to steal my food and not be in the way wherever I want to walk…she blocks the way on purpose.
She used to attack me, but she has cut that out, for the most part. I think she is jealous of me ‘cause I am handsome———-Batman
Comment by Colorado Transplant — December 19, 2007 @ 7:03 pm
I wrote a Letter to Santa!
http://blog.johannthedog.com/2.....santa.html
Woofs, Johann
Comment by Johann — December 20, 2007 @ 7:17 am
Dear Santa,
I want to live at the farm all the time and not just when Bernie has the time to take me out there. Its too boring here in town. Those little SOB rabbits will see then who owns the place…
Scout
From Bernie: I dont know where this came from but the other day my wife announced that along with her usual orgiastic cookie baking she was going to make doggie biscuits for Scout! Whaaa? With his sweet tooth Im sure he would prefer the human cookies. Meat cheese surgar, in that order…
Also, for anyone interested Molly will not be in our future. Someone else stepped up and adopted her before I could garner enough family support. I had thought she would make a fine friend for Scout and give him somthing to do on days I cant take him anywhere which in the winter is most days and give him a little extra excercise at least running in the back yard but it was not to be. Im hoping she will have a good life.
But the saddest thing this Christmas are still all the other poor sad dogs in the same pens at the shelter. They look up at me with such expectant eyes. They are not purebreds like Scout or Molly but want only to be with a human in a warm place. One big old boy jumped up on the chain link and put his paw thru the gap reaching toward me. He did not need to write me a letter. I took his paw and rubbed it and he just let out the most mourful sigh. Who will adopt him? Who will adopt all the others? What sad stories have brought them to this place and do their owners miss them?
The saddst part of Xmas has always been the thought of the orphans, human and otherwise.
Comment by Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewski — December 20, 2007 @ 9:33 am
Oh Bernie … you are soooo right. :)
Comment by Gina Spadafori — December 20, 2007 @ 9:49 am
Dear Santa,
I would like an unlimited bowl of food, my mommy won’t let me have it cause she thinks I need to lose weight. Really, I mean I’m a housecat and I’m lazy, I’m meant to fat right?
I also want Santa to come and take that noisy bird away, things were fine and dandy in this house for a number of years until my mommy brought home that noisy little thing that chirps at me everytime I walk by. Oh and I want that space next to my mom on the bed i used to have when the boyfriend is not there….I only get that once in a while now…I want it all the time!
Merry Christmas Santa
Lucky
Dear Santa,
I’m the noisy little bird the cat was talking about. I want her to get a new personality. She is grouchy and just glares at me everytime she walks by. Other than that I am pretty happy I just want a new bell to play woith and some millet. Thanks Santa!
Kiwi
Comment by Cory — December 20, 2007 @ 9:59 am
Santa, this is Scout again.
I left out tennis balls.
Did I mention tennis balls?
Lots and lots of tennis balls.
And maybe oposable thumbs so I can get them out from under the couch when they roll there.
Or at least a couch that they can’t get under.
Or one that I can get under. Damned couches! Oh, sorry, didnt mean to swear but I get so da… oh there I go again.
Dont worry! Ill be good! Sort of.
Scout.
PS, a playmate wouldnt be bad either. Maybe next year?
Comment by Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewski — December 20, 2007 @ 10:03 am
Dear Santa,
My name is Dora, and I’m the world’s best kitty—smart, pretty, great sense of humor, extremely humble—and I’m writing this letter on behalf of my entire tribe, of whom I am Queen.
Can you take Meowmie’s squirt gun away? I never get punished, since I’m the world’s best kitty, but I can’t bear to see the other kitties punished! It makes me so sad!
Other than that, some kind of yummy treat food would be nice. I’d rather have gooshy than crunchy food, and if you wanted to bring me an entire turkey just for me and the tribe to eat (our humans are herbivores, sigh!) that would be wonderful.
Love bites and purrs,
Dora
Comment by Katherine — December 20, 2007 @ 10:18 am
Dear Santa,
This is good old boy in the cold kennel close to Bernie. Me and my buddies are just vanilla dogs but on the inside were are all the same and just as nice as purebreds. Could you make Bernie adopt one of us. He can take Scout along for the selection. Scout does not care if we are vanilla flavor, he just wants a playmate. And we want a forever home, some of us donot have too many years left and never really had a good forever home. Most of us are easy to take care off, no long hair that requires frequent brushing.
We know he can only adopt one, but we are all happy each time when one of us gets a forever home.
Please, please Santa. Make him!!!!!!
Good old boy
Comment by Serijna — December 20, 2007 @ 12:10 pm
Good old boy,
Bernie cant take any extra dogs right now.
The family doesnt feel that it would work in town.
But you hold on. The Manitowoc shelter has a NO KILL policy and takes very good care of its orphans and is very well run. SOMEONE will come for you I promise.
There WILL be a friend (or two) for me at some point after we are in the country and they can share my fields and bunnies and it will be more fun than doing it alone.
I wish it could be you and I wish it could be now but it just cant happen. Sadly the world will not run out of dogs like you or I was once. Maybe Bernie can figure out how to do a rescue ranch out there when he retires? I’d like that.
But you hold on Good Old Boy. Better days are coming. I promise.
Scout
Comment by Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewski — December 20, 2007 @ 1:01 pm
Dear Santa,
You know that I’m a fluffy lap dog. All I want for Christmas is for Mrs. Murphy, the cat, to play nice……..
Oh, and, yes, one more thing…… Please bring me my very own mozzarella cheese factory; the DOG food is edible with cheese on it.
Love,
Keagan
Dear Santa,
All I want for Christmas is PEACE…peace in my feline castle. I was here first so it’s MY castle. Keagan does not believe that I am the silken-haired Princess LaLa and that it is beneath me to be licked by a sheepdog. Bleaaah! Please leave something to distract him. Mozzarella cheese in a Kong would work.
Your friend,
Mrs. Murphy
Comment by Nadine L. — December 20, 2007 @ 1:28 pm
Dear Santa,
Let Bernie retire soon and convert that farm into a rescue ranch. And please make sure it has a big kitchen so Mrs. Bernie can cook for us.
Comment by Lynn — December 20, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
From: Santa
To: Scout
I understand that you were a very bad boy today!
Jumping over the fence in the back yard and running into the street is a dumb thing to do!
You should know that after your tangle with a truck last month.
I’m telling Bernie not to let you out without being tied for a while because building a bigger fence in the winter is not an option right now.
I know you have too much energy for the city and you get really bored but going after squirrels or what every you were doing is not a good thing. Thats how you got into the shelter last time, isnt it?
Bernie would never let you go there again but he cant protect you from cars and trucks on a busy street if you insist on running away like that. He would like to adopt another dog and lots of dogs would love to be adopted but I’m sure thats not the way he wants it to happen.
I’m going to make sure the nice people who caught you and read your tag get something extra in their stockings this year. But you, my crazy little friend might wind up getting a lump of coal yet!
Bad dog!
Santa
Comment by Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewski — December 20, 2007 @ 2:11 pm
Santa,
Thats why I cant help Good Old Boy right now.
I have my hands full with naughty Scout dont I? And the yard and fence were fine or old Brandy but not up to holding a wild and energetic hunter who should be in the country. Setters are loveable but are just not city dogs.
An early Spring and a bottle of tranquilizers might be the best gift for him until we move.
Please help Good Old Boy and the others at the shelter find homes.
Here’s the link to the current list if you cant match anyone up. Good Old Boy must be new cause his picture isnt published yet and Molly is still there but already adopted. Maybe I can help you by bringing them some nice chew bones for Xmas?
Dont be too hard on Scout. He’s just overly enthusiastic!
Bernie
Comment by Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewski — December 20, 2007 @ 2:22 pm
http://www.htrnews.com/apps/pb.....038;Ref=PH
Comment by Bernard J. (Bernie) Starzewski — December 20, 2007 @ 2:24 pm
Dear Santa,
from all the bunnies.
Tks for the stocking stuffer. Petsmart has discontinued bunny selling in its stores. YEEAAAH!
Comment by Serijna — December 20, 2007 @ 3:36 pm
That IS GREAT NEWS!
Yeah, Petsmart!
:::Hurriedly adding to the stories list for newspaper feature pages::::
Comment by Gina Spadafori — December 20, 2007 @ 4:22 pm
Santa, there is an opossum living under my deck. He comes out at night. It makes me crazy. I keep smashing my snout against the glass and getting yelled at for barking and pawing the slider. I need him GONE! While you’re here anyway on Christmas eve could you just pack him up in your sleigh and then drop that opossum off at someone elses house? Either that, or leave the door open a crack so I can take care of it myself. I hate ‘possums. On my deck. Thank you, Santa. Gabe
Comment by elizabeth R — December 20, 2007 @ 10:18 pm
Dear Santa,
Now, I’ve never written you before, and I can’t claim to need much, but it seems this year is going to suck unless you do something. The Lady and the Man are heading off to visit their relatives, and they’re taking the diabetic Sassy cat, That Basset Thing, and the Kenya Dog with them, leaving me (Tom) and my sometimes friends Spider Cat and Pepe Cat in the care of a visitor. I won’t have much lap time, but I’ve lived without lap before. And I don’t really want to write about me anyway. I’ve gotten used to the one good eye and the missing bottom teeth so I drool, no matter how embarrassing that is.
But that Kenya Dog- she’s pretty good for a dog. I like her a lot. But the Lady says she’s got the cancer, and I don’t know what that means. The Lady looks sad, and Kenya says she hurts a lot if she doesn’t take all of her pills. I don’t understand much, but I can tell the cancer isn’t a good thing, So if you have room in your bag when you leave the neighbors, could you come and take the cancer away? I kind of want the Kenya Dog to stick around. She’s okay… for a dog.
-Tom
Comment by Georg — December 21, 2007 @ 1:03 pm