I totally agree with Jiggety Jig. I dont have parents to visit anymore so to me, I would leave my dogs anywhere to get to spend one more Christmas with my parents. I come from a big family. I've lost 1 brother and 2 sisters already and a daughter. Some might not realize how special family is until you lose some of them but You do find out they are more important than your dog. I hope it don't take losing someone to find that out. I love my dogs also. I have my own Christmas at home with my kids, but I have two sisters that live up the road, one of them has 3 dogs at her house, I have a brother that travels all over the country but they were here this year. they have one yorkie. But none of them brought their dogs to my house for xmas but my grand daughter whom I told her she could. I have a fenced yard and it wasnt too cold for them outside and my dogs and her dog had fun playing and my grandson and my sisters grand daughter had fun playing with the dogs outside. then before everyone left someone let the dogs in and it was ok too but that was as everyone was leaving. We love our dogs but that dont mean everybody else has to love them as I dont love other peoples dogs and I'm glad they all didnt bring theirs as none of us takes ours to visit each other anyway. We had a great Christmas. we visited my sisters family party and then of course we had one last night for just us 3 sisters and 1 brother and their spouses. their was no dogs nor children. so actually we were at 4 christmas parties and enjoyed them all tho our dogs were at home the whole time. they were just as well off when we got home as when we left them , just happy to see us. To me the dogs should only go to peoples houses when they know its ok to bring them and most people know where their dogs are welcome and where their not. But I dont feel like they should take offense as just because you love your dog it dont mean everybody else does. Family comes first and foremost in my life. But if my son and his kids didnt come just because their dog couldnt I would feel like they sure didnt care much about us. I would truly be hurt to the bone and offended to think a DOG came before me with my family. I just hope everyone had a good Christmas. We did and so did our dogs. they got presents from my grand daughter and her dog got one from us, but it was done at MY HOUSE where they were welcome to bring him. I have pictures of my dogs opening their presents from them and from us. but I waited until last for them to open the ones from them and they opened ours before everyone got here. It all worked out great. My son nor my grand daughter would never think about not coming to see us just because their dog couldnt come and I wouldnt think twice to leave my dogs at home to go where ever I had to go to be with them. I guess we're all just different. |