Can I give a heads up about the fur real pets JJ jumping pug - he ruined Christmas last year 🤣🤣.
You need to be aware that he jumps and barks and wiggles in the box. In an empty room, inside sodding wrapping paper.
The damn thing needs handling like a ticking bomb, and even then he is more likely to go off.
So we have Christmas at my parents. I'm quite anal and specific about how everything is done but my family humour me.
After battling to get the damn thing to mother's and hidden along came Christmas Eve. With the expertise of a ninja JJ was carefully moved into the sitting room, all presents assembled magic dust and half eaten mice pies and carrots all in place. Door closed to await the magic of Christmas morning.
About 1 am dd appears in a panic. Closely followed by grandma, my mother saying to me don't you get angry ......
JJ had decided he wasn't getting enough attention, so started to bark, which woke the child with the super hearing ..... thinking one of our dogs was trapped in the living room (no dogs in that room) she went to investigate....... which let the dogs in, which made a mess of everything 🙈.
And then to top it all off, after we got all of that sorted, come the morning when we were opening presents and that damn bloody dog.... my step dad (who is lovely, and has early dementia so is excused but at the time was close to being murdered by a string of tinsel) announced to my then 7year old .... "I told Oreo when she brought those toys through that that one moves and barks"
..... watching the penny drop about Santa on my little girls face 😢.
So be aware. If you want to buy that jumping pug..... you need a lead lined box and a sense of humour because I can't look at the damn thing without wanting to strangle it.
On the plus side although dd doesn't play with it much, it is quite appealing and kept my 30 yr old brother well and truest entertained on Christmas Day!