Merry Christmas

Raise your paw if you think dad will be the primary person taking care of the training, exercising, feeding and grooming of his gifts.
Vanity Fair, January 1917
This lady looks ill prepared to have a kitten and a puppy for Christmas.
Vanity Fair, January 1917

A few white dogs, in keeping with the snowy season:

Pearce, T. (1889). The Dog: With Simple Directions for His Treatment, and Notices of the Best Dogs of the Day and Their Breeders Or Exhibitors. United Kingdom: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company.
A toy bull terrier who weighed nine pounds in Country Life Illustrated, April 3, 1897
Birkdale. (1897, April 24). The Borzoi show at Southport. Country Life Illustrated, pp. 438-439
Westies in Vanity Fair, September 1917
Source: Eberhart, Alvin George. (1917). Everything about dogs. Pub. for the Eberhart kennels, Camp Denison, O., by the Field and Fancy Pub. Corp.
Vanity Fair, March 1917

Whether you are celebrating a holiday, spending quality time with your pets, or punching the clock at work, I hope you have your best day of 2025 (competition level: low). Thanks for spending a bit of it here.

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