I 'spose you might be wondering why it's taken so long for us to say anything about Christmas, 'specially as it's my first one here. I'll tell you why in a bit, but first I want to let you know about Christmas with The Beastly Beasts.

First off girls, what better way can you think of to spend Christmas than in the company of five gorgeous blokes? Hard ehh?

And one of them was Shaggy. That boy has everything; the looks, the smile, the personality. And the best of it all - he doesn't know it - it's just him. Grief, I sound like a gushing girl just coming out of puppyhood; but girls, he really is a hunk, and I'd've had his puppies.


Shaggy

Being my first Christmas in a family I had no idea what to expect, and Shaggy was in the same boat. The boys - Kai, Monty, Jack, and Troy - had told us that it was a really nice day; a long walk at our favourite place - Salcey Forest, followed by a snooze, then in the evening lots of new toys to play with and nice things to eat. Sounded good to me and Shaggy.


Mum playing with Kai

And sure enough, that afternoon we went over to Salcey. I just love it there, we all do; even Shaggy who had only been there a couple of times reckons it's a fab place. Dad was very naughty; he let Shaggy off for a run. There is one track through the forest that's about a mile long and dead straight, and that's were he did it. Boy, is that dog fast!!! I could only just keep up with him. He loved it though, and ran up and down the track a couple of times before coming back with a big grin on his face and totally out of breath.


Troy

Just a bit after that dad's phone rang, and I could tell by the way he spoke that something was going on - it wasn't his usual voice. We carried on our walk, but where as we are usually allowed to go off and do our own thing, dad made sure we stayed pretty close - he wanted to get back to the car.

Back at home dad spent a lot of time on the phone. He does that a lot normally - it his job (lot's easier than racing I can tell you), but the day was 'sposed to be a holiday.


Monty

Still, things got back to how the boys said it would be when dad started cooking; and did it smell good? And just like the boys had promised, dad did enough for humans and hounds, and it was yummy; I wish it could be Christmas every day!!

Then we had our pressies. We'd already had some pigs ears earlier in the day which were from Aunty Claire, and now we got toys. And not just one each, but three each!! 'Course, you can only play with one at a time, but it's fun choosing which one that will be. Troy got all the stuffing out of one of his in record time, and Shaggy wanted every pressie that came out the bag.


Troy disembowling a toy

And here I have to say I envy Shaggy; he joined in and played like he'd had pressies every Christmas, while I was, well, a bit over awed by it all. I know mum and dad and mum's puppy Lucie (she was there too) are nice, but it still seems all a bit strange that humans are so nice to me, and I keep thinking that when nice things happen that they'll end and I'll wake up back on the hillside in my tree. Silly I know.


Shaggy

But I did enjoy it; it was a lovely day, and I hope we'll have lots more Christmases together.

So to why it's taken a while to put anything on BeastBlog. Well, we can only use the 'puter when dad is here, and he hasn't been much. It was all down to the phone call dad got while we were out. Dad's dad had been poorly, and the call was dad's sister saying the human vet had called to say he was very poorly. When we got in dad spoke to them to find out how poorly; it was very. The next day dad was out all day seeing his dad, and very early the next morning the vet rang to say that he'd had gone to the kennel in the sky. And for humans that means there's lots of things to do, which is why dad hasn't been here much.


Monty

We hope you all had a nice Christmas, and that you got nice things to play with. Maybe one day every greyhound will be able to spend Christmas with friends and family; we hope so.

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