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What are you getting your pet for xmas AH's

  • 11-12-2015 5:09pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    Well i dont know what to get my pooch. Shes a lab/golden She has 13 teddies/squeky toys, 2 beds( unused as she kips at end of the bed) big tin of treats, three leads, collars, 3 footballs (shes nicked em off the neighbours as they booted em over the wall)

    Any idea's.

    What are you getting your pet for xmas

    no whankers please


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    one of those dog xmas socks,with toys and food in it


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    My dog doesn't believe in Xmas.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    I am getting them a tin of cat food between the two of them and a handful of cat biks. They may have a bit of left over leg of whatever bird we're cooking, and then they will be chucked outside same as usual ;) They're easy to buy pressies for - same thing every year.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Specialun wrote: »
    Well i dont know what to get my pooch. Shes a lab. She has 13 teddies/squeky toys, 2 beds( unused as she kips at end of the bed) big tin of treats, three leads, collars, 3 footballs (shes nicked em off the neighbours as they booted em over the wall)

    Any idea's.

    What are you getting your pet for xmas

    no whankers please
    Get her an inflatable boy dog to keep her company at night.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Specialun wrote: »
    Well i dont know what to get my pooch. Shes a lab. She has 13 teddies/squeky toys, 2 beds( unused as she kips at end of the bed) big tin of treats, three leads, collars, 3 footballs (shes nicked em off the neighbours as they booted em over the wall)

    Any idea's.

    What are you getting your pet for xmas

    no whankers please

    A Whiskas 'it's christmas for cats too' stocking.

    The Russell is getting a Pedigree Chum hamper.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65




  • Registered Users Posts: 3,163 ✭✭✭Shrap


    Specialun wrote: »

    Any idea's.

    YES! Brainwave! Get the neighbours 3 footballs that will eventually come back to her!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Specialun wrote: »
    Well i dont know what to get my pooch. Shes a lab. She has 13 teddies/squeky toys, 2 beds( unused as she kips at end of the bed) big tin of treats, three leads, collars, 3 footballs (shes nicked em off the neighbours as they booted em over the wall)

    Any idea's.

    What are you getting your pet for xmas

    no whankers please

    I certainly won't be getting him a whanker.

    Probably nothing, same as me, same as herself.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭moleyv


    I'll get it a smaller dog, to eh, play with...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    My dog doesn't believe in Xmas.

    Bet you told him there was no dog Santa before he turned thirty (dog years) old and all, you despicable monster. :-)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Look how happy this pooch is on his birthday. Ain't no creature in the history of the universe been so happy on his birfday.



  • Registered Users Posts: 4,297 ✭✭✭Jaxxy


    One of these! I have a Collie and a Jack Russell, both require a lot of mental stimulation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    My turtles are Muslim extremists so I don't need to get them anything for Christmas. I might get them a net though, they keep jumping out of the tank shouting "Alan snackbar" (I think they're a bit deaf too).


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Paramite Pie


    Why on earth would you get a christmas present for a dog? It's oblivious??

    Just give them a nice treat - it'll appreciat it no matter what it is but can't appreciate all thought and effort you're putting into this. All dogs care about is the gesture -- not the quality of what's given.

    They did tests on this ya know.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    My two cats play with lids from cans of milk, anything else I buy ends up gathering dust.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    Why on earth would you get a christmas present for a dog? It's oblivious??

    Just give them a nice treat - it'll appreciat it no matter what it is but can't appreciate all thought and effort you're putting into this. All dogs care about is the gesture -- not the quality of what's given.

    They did tests on this ya know.


    I just told her that i should just get her any sh!t. She isnt happy


  • Registered Users Posts: 560 ✭✭✭Philo Beddoe


    A big pile of stuff that a butcher took out of an animal.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Paramite Pie


    Specialun wrote: »
    I just told her that i should just get her any sh!t. She isnt happy

    She's becoming more aware... O_o

    The thing is dogs can get very attached to specific toys - getting more might be futile. You could try getting her some live prey - like a rabbit or something. Gotta hone those instincts.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    I got my dog a little panda teddy in Ikea last year, which cost like €15 or something. The cat had to have something too, so we got him a water bowl even though I've only ever seen him drink water about three times in seven years. Money's tight this year so I don't know.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,431 ✭✭✭MilesMorales1


    I'm gonna give them a special tea of carrots and green, with some new toys I'm gonna buy them.

    I have lots of rabbits.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    I don't have a pet you petist! :mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I got Lucky a new duvet, a few toys but she's not getting them until the weather gets better as she lies in the cold wet grass waiting for them to be thrown, some fancy treats and a bottle of Remy Martin brandy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Other half wants to dress dog in reindeer outfit. Like f*ck I'm putting the dog through that!!! Get a big juicy bone from the petshop instead!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,362 ✭✭✭mojesius


    I was going to get him one of those interactive dog treat dispenser toys but i reckon he'll just eat the whole thing. Looks like another rubber Kong bone 'for extreme chewers' or maybe a football (no grooves for him to grip his teeth on). No point in squeaky toys, teddies or tennis balls. He had a squeaky toy ripped in 30 seconds last night.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Got her not one, but two Christmas jumpers. She likes them, which is strange, because she absolutely hates wearing her little raincoat, will throw an absolute sulk if I even go to put it on her, but seems to like the jumpers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,412 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Links234 wrote: »
    Got her not one, but two Christmas jumpers. She likes them, which is strange, because she absolutely hates wearing her little raincoat, will throw an absolute sulk if I even go to put it on her, but seems to like the jumpers.

    You are talking bout a pet , right ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,619 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    Why the **** would I get my dogs something for Christmas?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    You are talking bout a pet , right ?

    No, my mother in law! :pac:

    I'm not married. :o


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    siblers wrote: »
    Why the **** would I get my dogs something for Christmas?


    Why wouldnt you


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭Lau2976


    I got her a bunch of teddies and biscuits. She really enjoys chewing on barbies (only with supervision!) so I'll pick her up one of those too. It really is just the ripping paper she likes as she does actually get the paper off herself. As crazy as it sounds sometimes we mail her things because she loves getting parcels!


  • Registered Users Posts: 27 P1nkSheep


    Probably something similar to last year for my dog - some treats to relax her as she is full of beans when guests visit (last year my Grandad fed her basically the whole packet. They didnt work he said is why he kept feeding them then suddenly shed was zonked out! Or finally knackered from being so bouncy all day :-/
    The cats i tend to give some tuna or turkey (they usually have dry food). Oh, and catnip. They have a catnip party. Which the dog tends to gate crash and cause mayhem there too ;-)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭randy hickey


    I'll be getting my dog a postman's leg to chew on for crimbo.

    He gets about a fortnights worth of chewtastic pleasure out of one, and they're only about €2.50, but I don't tell him that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,448 ✭✭✭✭Cupcake_Crisis


    This is the first Christmas I've been away from home and the thoughts of not watching the dogs trying to rip open their present is killer!!


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Does anyone else have a dog that knows which present is theirs from all the presents under the tree? Every year one of my labs heads straight for his own present, doesn't matter if it's under a heap of others, he'll find it.

    Buying my boys new beds this year as i'm redecorating and also buying a new fabric sofa so they are barred from the sitting room.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭To Elland Back


    He's getting a new collar. Favourite so far is brown, approx 1 inch width with beige stitching along the edges. Getting a reindeer horn (no joke, great things altogether) as a surprise.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,796 ✭✭✭Azalea


    Used to get my cat a tin of turkey Whiskas every Christmas but she didnt like it. Hoped each year she would change her mind.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Azalea wrote: »
    Used to get my cat a tin of turkey Whiskas every Christmas but she didnt like it. Hoped each year she would change her mind.

    It didn't kill her, did it? :eek:

    Our cat is getting a small bit of smoked salmon, he's like a crack addict for the stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭Carry


    This year I had a proper sit-down talk with my dog and my cat and told them how lucky they are that they have a human eejit like myself who spoils them rotten.
    Then I tried to tell them how unlucky many others of their sort are, hungry, with no home and/or treated badly.

    Not that they were impressed. But I told them in no unclear words that all the money for Christmas presents would go to an animal rescue. And no back talk!

    Still not impressed the selfish basterds.

    But telling them that otherwise there won't be any leftovers from the roast duck for them did the trick.

    And they toddled off, feeling smug doing a good thing this year - and looking forward to the leftovers, I guess.


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Everleigh Juicy Transistor


    He got a monkey squeaky toy and nothing-added dried chicken treats he goes cracked for


  • Registered Users Posts: 27 P1nkSheep


    Loving reading about the spoilt fur babies!!!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,513 ✭✭✭✭Lucyfur


    Get her a kong and a tub of peanut butter :)

    My dog got an early present of a very expensive bed. Dunno what santa will bring the cats. They haven't been very good this year :/


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Lucy8080


    Left- overs!

    But, not just any left-overs.

    Left-overs from a Marks and Spencer's Christmas dinner.

    Left-overs lovingly pawed at by humans.

    Left-overs that have been left to cool and stagnate for hours.

    Left-overs that have been guffawed over and spittle drenched by humans sharing Christmas cracker jokes.

    But, not just any Christmas cracker jokes.

    Marks and Spencer's Christmas cracker jokes, the most luxurious and expensive crap jokes money can buy.

    All served up in an empty tin.

    But, not just any empty tin.

    It will be the empty tin from a Marks and Spencer's biscuit selection.

    A tin that will last until next Christmas, and which will stand up to whatever slop you throw at rover over the coming year.

    It's not just any old slops for rover this year, it will be Marks and Spencer's slops.

    Because we care!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭Carry


    Lucy8080 wrote: »
    Left- overs!

    But, not just any left-overs.

    Left-overs from a Marks and Spencer's Christmas dinner.

    Left-overs lovingly pawed at by humans.

    Left-overs that have been left to cool and stagnate for hours.

    Left-overs that have been guffawed over and spittle drenched by humans sharing Christmas cracker jokes.

    But, not just any Christmas cracker jokes.

    Marks and Spencer's Christmas cracker jokes, the most luxurious and expensive crap jokes money can buy.

    All served up in an empty tin.

    But, not just any empty tin.

    It will be the empty tin from a Marks and Spencer's biscuit selection.

    A tin that will last until next Christmas, and which will stand up to whatever slop you throw at rover over the coming year.

    It's not just any old slops for rover this year, it will be Marks and Spencer's slops.

    Because we care!

    You are truly bonkers! :D:D:D


  • Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Alfie is getting a brand new leather collar.

    Because its so much easier to clean the ****E he rolls in, off a leather collar.

    Dirty animal!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 447 ✭✭Latatian


    Cheap squeaky toy, every year. And every year she goes mad as soon as she sees the tree go up, checks under it for presents. She has been known to unwrap ONE corner of half the presents- presumably every present that smells like it might be for her- to check.

    Sure why not get her a present? You spend 30 seconds and 1.50 and she carries it around for the whole day showing it to everyone and gets really happy about it, won't let it out of her sight for the next week. And you know it's absolutely genuine.

    You spend much more money, time, thought, effort, on presents for the humans and half the time you get the 'Oh... how lovely' reaction or it turns out someone else got them the same thing. Might as well have one 'good present' to bank on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,731 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I've never had a pet.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    I've never had a pet.

    Are you still buying this pet that never existed a present? Because that wouldn't be half as mad as some of the stuff in this thread.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,847 ✭✭✭Armchair Andy


    Who in their right mind expects a dog or whatever to understand Christmas? Just another fad driven by commercialism.


  • Registered Users Posts: 33,757 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    I get nothing for my dog, cats or cattle for Christmas, I just keep them fed, watered and with good shelter as per usual.

    Had to put poison down for rats as the cats had gotten to lazy to try and catch them. To think they should then get a present, they wouldn't even bring me a present of a dead rat to my doorstep.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭Chain Smoker


    This year I think I'll let him stay out at the road for as long as he wants, he's absolutely terrifying so I reckon it'll reduce the unwanted visitor count by 50%.


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