A Dog-Friendly Guide for Happy Holidays

Some reminders to keep your 4-legged members of the family safe over the festive season!

​The Holidays is a lovely time of year with beautiful decorations adorning our homes and plenty of delicious savory and sweet food on the menu!  In order to have a safe festive season for all the family including your dogs please keep in mind some of the things that can be harmful and dangerous to them.

​Here is a list of things to keep your dogs away from to keep them safe:

Décor:

• Christmas ornaments
• Christmas lights
• Tinsel and ribbon
• Plants and flowers such as Lilies, Poinsettias, Amaryllis
• The needles on fresh Christmas trees
• The water that the tree is standing in
• Mistle toe
• The berries on Holly

Food Items:

• If your dogs are sharing in the Christmas turkey only give them the white meat.  No dark meat, skin and no cooked bones
• Onions
• Grapes, raisins and sultanas
• Fruit cake and Mince pies as they contain raisins and sultanas
• Chocolate
• Macadamia nuts
• Sweets and Sweet wrappers
• Alcohol

​If you want to treat your dogs as you tuck into your festive meals remember there are lots of different recipes that you can find to fill a Kong and freeze it for their treat and remember to get your dogs out for walks!  The fresh air will be good for them and good for us after our delicious meals.

Happy Holidays Everyone!  Best wishes for a healthy and safe New Year, 2021!

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