Holiday humilations: Will your pet be seeing Santa?
By Gina Spadafori
November 22, 2008
With more people sharing their lives with pets than with children, it’s surely no surprise that one of the staples of the Christmas season — a child’s trip to Santa — has long been available for pets. It’s all very tongue-in-cheek, of course, or really, tongue-ON-cheek, since the pets aren’t whispering gift wishes and the fun is really all about the owners. In many cases, these Santa photo-ops are also fund-raisers for animal charities — a cute way to raise some much-needed cash for shelter animals.
I’ll admit it: I’ve done the Santa photo-ops. I’m of the mind that anything that makes everyone smile and raises some money for charity really doesn’t have much of a downshide. But now I’m asking your opinion, so click a box and add your comments below. And if you want to include a link in your comments to a Santa-pet photo, please do that, too.
Our local humane society does it as a fundraiser. It’s fun, and I like getting out all the pictures from years past. Here is last year’s: http://blackbird13.smugmug.com.....Rv6r-M.jpg
Comment by Meryl — November 22, 2008 @ 9:48 am
My dog thinks Santa is the boogie man! I have a great pic of her running away from him, lol!~ One of my cats was a ‘bit’ more agreeable, but not enough so that I would bring any to an event. I wish my pets did like Santa, it would be fun to do yearly cards with my crew that looked a bit more festive :)
Comment by straybaby — November 22, 2008 @ 10:57 am
Lizzie got her photo taken last year with Santa- she was 10 weeks old and it was just TOO cute to pass up. :P (Plus it gave me an excuse to take her to the mall for socialization; while they don’t normally allow pets, on one night of the season, they allow pet photos with santa and you can take your dog in through the mall. :P)
It came out SUPER cute, too - it was NOT for charity and a bit more expensive thna the poloroid-and-volunteer santa at petsmrat, but I *love* the result…
http://flickr.com/photos/dogst.....396660647/
Comment by Cait — November 22, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
That IS pretty cute!
Comment by Gina Spadafori — November 22, 2008 @ 3:32 pm
I love last year’s cheap, Petsmart Santa photo of Addy. Yes, it’s tacky, but it’s cute.
I expect I’ll do it again this year.
Comment by Lis — November 22, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
We have a great photo of Lindsey (the cat) with Santa at Agway becuase Lindsey was so fascinated by the automatic doors that he kept watching them open and close the whole time. Okay, he’s staring a bit to the left, but it’s still a great photo.
The best non-family photo I have of Pepper was done by our dog park’s VP with her husband as Santa. They are both just so great with dogs.
I have to get a Flicker account some day. . .
Comment by Dorene — November 22, 2008 @ 7:05 pm
My ALL time favorite picture of years and multiple dogs, is one special Santa photo. I’ll treasure it forever.
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Comment by Barbara A. Albright — November 22, 2008 @ 7:22 pm
The only way that my kitties will see Santa this year, is when he visits us on Christmas Eve. LOL
Comment by Marcy — November 22, 2008 @ 7:23 pm
Meeting Santa wasn’t the highlight of Thomas’ life (as you can see in the photo below)… but it was for charity, and he actually *did* enjoy hanging out in the pet shop during the three hour wait it took to get the thing taken.
Would I do it again? Probably.
http://i15.photobucket.com/alb.....ta2006.jpg
Comment by Ramen Connoisseur — November 24, 2008 @ 11:17 am