The holidays hit fast and furious and each day we hit the ground running. Our pets take the brunt of the craziness as we hustle and bustle to get things done. Sometimes their exercise routines get changed, sometimes there is no exercise at all. Other days, inbound company takes our attention away from our time with our pets and trust me, it’s not fine with our pets.
While house pets are the most loving, wonderful creatures, change is not something any of them appreciate. It’s important to keep your pets comfortable during the holidays and my tips for including your pets in the holiday festivities should help.
Lavishly live the most wonderful time of the year out loud and see if you can use my tips for including your pets in the holiday festivities to make it a great time!
Tips For Including Your Pet In The Holiday Festivities
Remembering Their Affection
Pets need affection and Bella the cat sure reminds us with all of her rubbing and chattings. She makes more noise than the kids when she wants the pet and tended too.
It’s important to set aside a bit of time, even just 5 minutes a day during the holidays to give the pets the attention they need from a brushing to a small walk, they just need you.
Lights, Decorations, Craziness
Be patient with your pets because all the lights on the trees and the decorations that are in ‘their way’ comes with a price. Your pets have become creatures of habit and they like things the way they know them, not in new places. If you take over an area they generally play in remember this was ‘their spot’ and they may need some time to stop ‘stealing’ the ornament from the tree (lol)
Stuff Their Stockings
Just like the kids, pets need a stocking too. You want to supply your pet with great wholesome nutritionally sound snacks that you can feed to them with confidence.
For us, we use the holidays as a time of the year to stuff Bella’s stocking with the treats she loves from BLUE™ Wilderness like the Wild Cuts that offer Tasty Duck Morsels in a savory gravy. We give her this to the top of her food and she loves it. As soon as she sees this in her stocking she will go crazy!
We mix up canned foods, treats, toppers, bagged food and of course bags of treats, all things Bella is sure to love. We feel good about giving Bella these foods, and treats because BLUE Buffalo is a solid food that offers protein rich food with no By-products.
A Little Bit About BLUE Wilderness
The BLUE Wilderness recipe is pet perfect as it was inspired by the diet of wolves for dogs and the wild lynx for cats, the truest of omnivores whose endurance is legendary. BLUE Wilderness offers a protein-rich, grain free line of food, treats, toppers and more that offer delicious meats that I know your pets will love. Bella the cat is so picky and she just runs to the bags to see what we have for her!
The holidays are the time of year that allow us to make sure that she has a stocking stuffed with all the treats she loves. We spoil Bella the cat with all things BLUE Buffalo.
Anyone that has a pet knows that the holiday wouldn’t be the same if they didn’t spoil their fur babies too. They are part of the family.
These are great tips! Pets are definitely like family members so this is an awesome way to show that.
awwwwww! i love it when people treat their pets like family and not just animals. it says alot about ones character.
I love shopping for my dog at Christmas time. She is a member of the family and it’s important to not leave her out!
I don’t have a cat but i could have these to give to my friend who love cats. I am sure she’ll love it.
My dog is a big part of our family life and, of course, of Christmas too. Each year we bake his favourite liver treats, pop them in a kitchen roll tube along with some scrunched paper, wrap wrapping paper around the tube, twist the ends and – voila! – a Christmas crack for him to pull apart to find the treats. He loves it! He really loves unwrapping his other presents too. The hard thing is getting him to understand that he can’t unwrap the humans’ presents too!
I never thought about how taking the pet’s space could ill affect them, lol. I am laughing because we moved the cat’s home today to put up the tree. 😉
Great tips! I have two kitties! Luckily they don’t mess with the tree. They do love batting around ornaments though, ha.
How lovely are those! I always give our family cat a treat during Christmas, something that he’ll enjoy and have fun with! He’s a part of the family and it would be nice to make him feel special this season as well.
These are excellent tips! We include our pets in all our holiday shenanigans, so we tend to make it all pet friendly. Each pet even has their own stocking! Lots of goodies in there each year for each one. I will have to get some of these!
These are great tips! I love including our pups in the holidays and give them special gifts and treats!
I love the Blue Buffalo line of products! Would love to check these out for my dog.
Thanks for the tips. I’m going to share this with my daughter since she has a pet bunny. A good reminder to get some holiday gift for pet also.
I don’t have any pets, but know many people who do. I’ll be sure to pass along this info to them!
Very nice post. So important to include pets in the festivities. They ‘re part of the family too.
Food is always good for presents for pets. Pets are like people to most.
Aww these are such cute ideas! I have two cats and my kids love them so much. They’re always asking if we can buy them a Christmas present. I love your idea to create a stocking for pets. My kids would love to do this for our cats!
Of course, our pet should also have a treat this Xmas, so they can feel that they are a part of our family and they can feel the true meaning of it.lol
Aweee love your pet stockings! We always go all out on holiday stocking stuffers for the family ALL of the family – which are the pets too. 🙂