How is your dog ruining Christmas (light hearted!)

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Ours is almost three so this is only our second Christmas with him.
Christmas #1 was a breeze, though we soon learnt that it was not an option to have presents under the tree until the day.

fast forward to this year, he’s finding wrapped presents and ripping them open (weirdly mainly his own), at least three times a day he likes to parade around the house with a decoration from the tree in his mouth and is determined to pull wall mounted decorations down (even those hanging from the ceiling!)

We’ve had a family meeting and decided he’s the Grinch in disguise.
even Christmas morning we’ve concluded he’ll have to be on a lead while we do presents.

before anyone says hide the presents better, he can open doors and is tall enough to grab anything.

Hes a Weimaraner so difficult to fill his senses.
raised two children who never got so excited even when they believed in Father Christmas.

DDs (20 & 25) are hoping to do a gingerbread house Christmas Eve, they’ve been doing it since the year dot.
but doubting the dog will allow that to happen !!

What are your dogs doing this year?

Mine is waking up at 4.30am to have her advent calendar treat 😏

Actually (sshhh) mine, who's usually an utter twat, is behaving very well at the moment (for a Patterdale, which just means the average amount of killing, maiming and yapping). She did piss on the Christmas bathmat - brand new - that I put down the other day, but that was my fault, I know she's like that with new stuff, so I've put it away to bring out nearer to Christmas. We might get a day out of it before she does it again.

My dog is 6.

She’s always tried nicking and unwrapping the presents if we put them under the tree, but she’s by and large left everything else alone until this year.

Gently removing tree decorations from the tree and running off with them. The first time I stupidly tempted her back with a treat so now she’s just brazenly nicking them and looking at me for a treat.

Pulled half the mantelpiece off the wall trying to pull a stocking down.

Pulls the garland/twiggy shit down off the mantelpiece every morning on her way past on the way out to the back garden for a wee.

Disembowelled a stuffed Santa - the stuffing then stuck like Velcro to my bloody carpet and was a right pita to clean up.

Stole her own advent calendar and ate the whole lot by the 5th of December. Stole the cat’s advent calendar and ate all his remaining treats the other day (my Mum bought them!)

She’s normally pretty chill but seems to be looking for mischief at the moment.

Can so relate to what you say about making the mistake of giving them a treat in return for contraband.

Ddog learnt that very early on, whether it’s a tea towel or a packet of paracetamol.
he doesn’t care, all he knows is to release in return for a treat. In fact his favourite is my dirty knickers, mine and mine only 😝

Our dogs have been involved with dressing the tree, wrapping presents and putting them under the tree (their presents don't go under the tree...), and planning Christmas menu.
They very much look forward to Santa Paws visit!

This is the second Christmas with my elderly rescue lhady. She gets cold so I thought I'd get her some new festive wear instead of wearing my old dog's bits again which are way too big. And dead man's shoes and all

New jumper. Dog nightie! And some Christmas socks. Can I put them on her without it being a good old game of tug of war? Nope. I chased her round the house this morning, trying to wrestle the jumper out of her mouth. Sigh... I did get it on eventually!

Alas poor Olaf

Not this Christmas but a few Christmas’s ago. He pulled the tree down and decided to wee all over it on chrismras eve. Needless to say it all went in the bin and we didn’t have a tree for Christmas Day etc. oh and the presents had to be wiped and disinfected

Making me love him an unreasonable amount.
Making having a Christmas tree impractical this year.
On bitterly cold winter nights during the lead up to Christmas, while he's fast asleep in his own bed, he makes me get out of my bed to permanantly gift him the cosiest blanket off of my bed, and to tuck it around him, just in-case his ears get cold.

I’ve just got up to use the en-suite and coming back into bedroom noticed what look like drifts of snow across the carpet - little kleptomaniac shit has stolen a full bag of caster sugar from an open drawer and torn a hole in it

I have two, daft little twerps that they are. Well technically the younger one is my 4yos dog, they’re inseparable. She steals baubles from the tress that, immediately and inexplicably, terrify her the moment they’re off the tree and she either runs away, creeps back then runs away repeatedly or yips at them over and fucking over until someone puts them back. Son, of course, finds this hilarious.
My old boy, sadly, I can find little to be lighthearted about. He’s being put down ib the first week of January, advanced arthritis and now a degree of dementia means he’s no longer really enjoying his life. He has always loved Christmas though, and so I’m spoiling him rotten with lots of cuddles, treats and general soppiness. After 12 years, it’s hard to imagine a life without him loitering around, he’s always been my shadow.

My girl is 17 and she can’t see or hear much to get up to mischief but I got her a sleigh shaped bed and she loves it! She’s so adorable stretched out in her sleigh!

@TwooooDoooozenRoses enjoy every moment with your boy

We have a cockapoo who can generally be a bit of a knob all year round taking our stuff and guarding it etc. This year so far she “helped” me take some of the tree decs out of the box and also keeps stealing a little dec that’s under the tree whenever she fancies winding us up a bit. She loves all the wrapping paper but would totally steal the kids new presents if allowed in the living room. On Christmas Day she’s shut out the living room with a room divider thing that means she can still see us. We throw all the used wrapping paper out to her and she has a whale of a time ripping it all apart. Lucky she’s cute is all I can say!

the presents are not displayed
once the tree is decorated she will have great fun removing the baubles

Mine is brilliant with the tree and decorations, but he has taken umbrage towards the elves! I have to put them up very high so he can't get them, but he'll give them the eye all day (he's a border collie). He's looking forward to the little twits going back to the North Pole, and so am I!

Mine have been excellent. Their love of the festive elf means I don’t have to do that elf business because my daughter gets upset when they manage to find it and carry it round in their mouths. True heroes for that.

No presents can be under the tree until the day. They’ve been taught to open their presents so that’s our fault.

They will probably end up nicking some food at some point. It’s Labrador law at Christmas. Otherwise they’re just chilling out happy that we’re all about.

No one of my present dogs, but my beloved dachshund. When he was still with us, he used to veery carefully slip the decorations from the tree and proceeded to carry them to our turtle's terrarium... And then he would forcefully throw them in. My mom found it sweet, I'm still convinced that he tried to murder the turtle (he used to eat salad so that the turtle wouldn't get anything).

Keeps knocking baubles off the tree with his tail then climbing on the sofa because he’s scared of the sound they make

One of mine is shitting through the eye of a needle. Again. She is an ex breeder we adopted and we have had every test known to man but we cannot get to the bottom (no pun intended!) of why she does this every 2-3 weeks……
Other than that, they are all their usual perfect selves 🥰 One has had an early Christmas present of a sofa for “her” room. She bloody loves it, and refused to get up until 10am this morning 🤣

I always thought she loved to rip open her presents, but turns out she just loves to rip the wrapping paper. She got hold of my stash of paper and ‘decorated’ the hallway with Christmas confetti
Here she is after a walk in the snow ( not today !)