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Top Holiday Activities to Enjoy with Your Dog This Christmas

Festivities bring innumerable delightful situations and overwhelming emotions to your home. Even your furry friends share the same excitement but cannot fully express it. Along with your home decoration, and preparing meals for guests you should do something special for them this Christmas. Your pets need to be treated in a pleasant manner while you are enjoying this joyful season. Interesting toys, colorful serving utensils, designer collars or leashes, premium dog food, and comfortable clothes would be great options to make your dog happy on Christmas. Here are some simple yet instant activities which can help your pets to maintain a playful mood.

Enjoy this festive season with your Dog


Wearing similar sweater together

Collecting cute and comfortable outfits for your dogs is a good idea. Your dogs also require sweaters to stay warm in the winter. This Christmas you easily select matching sweaters for you and your dog to add a festive touch. However, you should try your best to take your dog with you when you are going to buy these sweaters. This will provide them an amazing pleasure of going out with you. Thus, they will feel loved more than ever before. They will find you playful and happy in this festive season. 

Click candid photos with your dogs

Clicking different pictures of your dog has most likely become a habit now. You can utilize this habit in a different way to make this festival more joyful for your furry friend. You just need to adjust your phone camera accurately to click family photos with your dogs. These photos can be added to Christmas cards and sent to family and friends. 

Go for an outing with them

Dogs love to go out and explore the outside world. These outings improve their physical and mental health. Try and set a fixed time for going out with your dogs to maintain their body clock. In addition to this, when feasible, take them with you when you go shopping. This will help them get customized to various social settings and will assist with getting them use to crowds and crowded places. 

Avoid excessive crowd

People usually invite large amounts of guests to their Christmas celebration parties. Be careful when making your guest list as a dog parent. You may want to limit the number of guests and keep the atmosphere of your home suitable for your particular dog. Your dog may struggle controlling their excitement in front of too many people. They may get confused and start misbehaving with too many guests. This is why you should be wise in choosing your selected guests and consider those that you know are comfortable with dogs.

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Bring them their Christmas gifts

Rubber toys, gummy bears, silicon bones, chewy balls are the most common gifts other than premium dog food for your dogs. Apart from this, you can buy them colourful bowls to serve their food. There are a number of suitable gifts available for your dogs both offline and online in the market now a days.

See 4 Strong Paws toys and treats for some gift ideas: https://4strongpaws.com/products

Try to invite other pets from neighborhoods

Inviting dogs from the neighborhood is a great idea to encourage your dog’s excitement and assist with their socialization. They will enjoy the Christmas celebration in their own way. Instead of inviting too many people, consider asking other dog parents along with their dogs. You can discuss your dog parenting experiences and share useful information about dogs from other dog parents. Makes sure the dogs you invited are vaccinated and well-trained.  

Hopefully, the ideas mentioned above will provide beneficial interactions for you and your dog. This will make for a very enjoyable season of festivities for you and your furry friend(s). 


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