And this is how the Christmas Day party began!
This is me the "Crystal Dog Pack Leader" with some of my team.
Having opened their presents (one of which was partly opened due to Eddie, the Jack Russell, having sneaked a peak a few days earlier!)I believe their thought was -
We wish it could be Christmas everyday!
They very much enjoyed their day, walks on the beach (in the rain not so good for me!), then breakfast, then pressies and a tiny amount of time spent consuming said pressies - especially the Dobey and the Dane as chews eaten in record time, a kip, a brief spell in the garden, roast dinner leftovers - which was great for them as it was a large turkey, and then nothing but dozing in front of the fire.
So whoever said it's a dogs life ......was right for my pack!
On Boxing Day they had their friends over - Yep really their 6 doggie mates owned and led by my friend Chris (a very experienced dog trainer). Our husbands stayed in and cooked lunch whilst we took the dogs out, 6 each we went for a stroll on the beach, reckon we had the best time as this day was sunny, cold but with this many dogs we were kept moving! The rest of mine stayed to help out with the cooking having had their walks earlier. My lot then welcomed their guests into the house, Chris and I took the lead in telling all the dogs that this was how it was to be for the day. They behaved well, calmly sitting around and for the first time no fuss from my dogs about sharing their territory! I had deliberately chosen the six of mine for the walk who were most likely to be territorial dominant, so they exercised with Chris's pack before we brought both packs together in the house - it worked!! Tommy (Chris's male Head Dog) proved to be very interested in young Snoopy as she was coming into season, even then he was well behaved, both packs got along just fine!
We all had a lovely day and all slept well that night.
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