Christmas dog of the month: Share your festive dog photos & win a £100 prize bundle!

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Hello Mumsnetters,

Welcome to our special “Christmas Dog of the Month” thread in partnership with Pedigree® – celebrating all things festive and furry! 🎄🐾

We’d love to see photos of your dog getting into the festive spirit, whether they’re sniffing out presents under the tree, enjoying a cosy winter walk, or keeping an eye out for a Christmas treat. Post a pic and share how your dog brings joy to your Christmas season, and you could win a Pedigree® prize bundle worth £100.

How to Enter:

• Share a photo of your dog enjoying Christmas - no outfits needed, just festive fun!
• Tell us a short story about a favourite Christmas tradition with your dog or a heartwarming festive moment.
• We’ll pick a “Dog of the Month” from the stories shared in this thread to feature on Instagram.

Important Notes:

• If your dog is selected, we’ll ask for permission before posting the image on the Mumsnet and Pedigree® Instagram feeds.
• Keep it simple and festive - no need for costumes!

Congrats to last month’s winner, Bella! 🐾 Let’s see who will be crowned this year’s Christmas star!

P.S. Follow us on Instagram to catch all the adorable “Dog of the Month” winners!

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This is Teddy - my 4 month old Cockapoo enjoying the snow for the first time!

This is Teddy - my 4 month old Cockapoo enjoying the snow for the first time!

Here's my little girly blending into the snow ❄eight years old this year! Her birthday is just a few days before Christmas so we like to make a fuss of her at this time of year.

Marnie. Enjoying her first taste of snow.

Look at all the lovely doggies I dont have one but will enjoy looking at the photos

This is Rubi our amazing rescue dog. Both my child and I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome so easily dislocate joints making things like taking off socks really difficult. Rubi's a prolific trophy sock thief (steals but doesn't chew) and we have encouraged this so neither of us have had to remove our own socks for years. Unfortunately Rubi hasn't yet mastered popping them in the washing machine but that could be next year's new skill.

Nutmeg is already in the Christmas spirit 🎄🎅🏼 Her favourite activity is stealing the decorations if we put them too low 🥲🤣 She also is obsessed with the heated blanket 🥰

Oh my!!! So cute! Does the snow stick to his fur?

This is Trinity, our 3 yo Siberian Husky. Winter is, somewhat obviously, her favourite time of year and she will often ask to go outside simply to enjoy sitting in the snow. I'm not suggesting she is over indulged but we have relocated to the Highlands since getting her!

Summer our 10 year old beagle last Christmas morning, with a big smile when I gave her her new toy!. We buy her a new toy every Christmas which is Christmas themed, its our tradition. I placed in on her head and she just sat there whilst I took the photo.

This is Lula, Jack and Milly with their fresh christmas grooms

@NutmegsMum Yup! He has tiny snowballs stuck to him! I gave him a warm bath when we got home bless him 🤣 x

My beautiful boy Zeus getting in the Christmas spirit when we were putting the decorations up. He loves to be in the middle of everything 😆

This is Chester. Just had his first birthday yesterday. He's been to the groomers and wearing a Christmas bandana. We are so looking forward to his first Christmas with us.

Here is Maddy putting her bauble on the tree. She is 13 and this time last year we didn’t think she would make Christmas 2023. After spinal surgery she has made a great recovery and is really enjoying getting into the festive spirit! Could have chosen from many photos, she loves opening Christmas presents with her human sisters and also loves her elf costume this year!

Meet Maiden she is 8 months old, She was abandoned with her litter at a day old in the woods, hand reared by my friends as part of Mansfield wildlife rescue and then on to us at 9 weeks old. She is a Belgian Malinois Cross Staffy and is absolutely amazing. This Christmas is her first and we are going to make it extra special, even the kids have said they do not want presents this year they just want Maiden to have the best Christmas and that would be the best present they could ever receive!

This is Luna, my gorgeous Romanian rescue dog. We adopted her on 21st December 2019 so she was able to spend her first Christmas in a home 🥹 and of course it was right before all the pandemic craziness kicked off, and we were so grateful to have her company through all the lockdowns and every day since. Christmas coming up means it’s time to celebrate another year of loving our lil Christmas pudding ♥️

I know they say a dog is for life, not just for Christmas, but sometimes they’re for Christmas too 🥰

This is Max, he's a jackahuahua and he comes to the school I work in twice a week to work as a therapy dog with our students. He loves his days in school and seeing all the children and staff! I had to change the background of the photo due to it being in a school - he's still super cute though and he does a fabulous job!

This is five year old fox red labrador Bailey, practising waiting for Santa 🐾

This is Luna who sadly died this year aged 12. Her favourite winter game was trying to catch snowballs and as you can see a lot of it ended up over her face. Her little dachshund 'brother' misses her as much as we do.

He's an old man now but loves Christmas and can still open his own presents and anyone else's. Love my boy x

11 year old Oscar enjoying playing ball in the snow he loves playing ball regardless of the weather he also loves chasing snowballs

Dylan Labradoodle, expert food thief. The Festive Season is his season and for one reason only, there are just so many opportunities to beg or steal food. But who could resist this beautiful boy?

Here's Gracey enjoying her first snow.

Chino. He loves Christmas as our house is full of people and other dogs. 5 dogs this year.