Community Chat

[Kachina624]

I've never had a dog that had the slightest interest in toys or balls. I don't give them most commercially prepared treats due to ingredients from China. I do give them real, raw bones but I never know when the local butchers will have them available.

[Eliana]

Kitties will get a new cardboard scratching box with catnip. When I was a kid, our dog got a new basketball every year for Christmas. It would take her a while to finally get her teeth into in and flatten it, then she would beat it on the ground. We started getting her own after she kept deflating our basketballs.

[RedTop]

Our dogs have their own stockings that are filled with treats. I buy treats for my brothers dog, and used to buy treats for Mom's dog until she passed two years ago.

[redhead handbag queen]

My Coco and Maggie have stockings that say ""I believe in Santa Paws"" with their names on sewn on them.

[september]

This was a great gift last year. My cat loves it, and I continue to plant new seeds every 6 weeks or so. He's an indoor cat, but likes to have some grass from time to time!

[qvcaddition]

My Melanie got a Christmas sweater with a hood and a beautiful pink leash with a pretty pink bow and some bling in the middle. Also two long pet toys, that she loved when I showed her in the store. She also took a picture with Santa in the mall. She got a Mr Reinder toy a couple of years ago she still loves. Needless to say she is very spoiled, but is a wonderful rescue dog. She deserves everything she gets.

[RainCityGirl]

My friends and I exchange pet gifts for one another's pets. I just bought gifts today for Frankie the dog and Leo the cat next door. I was disappointed because Petsmart sent an email ad saying they had knit leg warmers for dogs. They were so cute and I hurried over to the store to get them, and they didn't have them, plus now they are sold out online.

[sfnative]

When our 2 Burmese were still with us, I purchased the "Isabella" catalog catnip sausage for them every year. Now I gift friends' cats with this same organic catnip sausage. It's great!

Our furbabies are family, so I like to include them as I do the people we gift.

Meow!

[Lipstickdiva]

My dogs have always had stockings. On x-mas eve, DH goes to bed and takes the dogs with him and I fill the stockings and hang them up. Trust me they know they are there. Every year my dog Joe would start a fight over the toys in the stockings. He was the sweetest thing ever any other time but x-mas day he got mean and everything had to be put away quickly.

We lost Joe a few months ago so we just have one now. I decided to hang her empty stocking up. Everyday she goes to the shelf and sits and stares at that stocking because she thinks it is filled. It's hilarious.

I will fill her stocking with toys which she will destroy in a matter of days and homemade dog treats from a local dog bakery.

[PamelaSue72]

The gang of six loves their catnip, so that's always on my list. A couple bags of treats. Some Cool Claws (ice cream for cats). They each have their own stockings and we put in a couple cans of Fancy Feast and a bag of treats in each.

Some catnip pillows (in a plastic bag, so the catnip smell doesn't get to them early and they tear their stocking down; yeah, they did that one year....tore the stockings right off the railing to get to their catnip pillows).

And this year, their "big" gift was a set of steps going up to our bed. The oldsters in the clan are starting to have some problems with jumping, so we got them steps. Surprisingly, they do use them.