07/12/2025
Christmas 🎄 is a wonderful time of celebration and family for most of us. It can also be a very hectic and chaotic 🤪 period for us and pets.
Here are some tips to help your pets 🐶🐯 over the festive period 🎄🎁
* Maintain Routine: Try to stick to their regular routine. Provide security by keeping feeding, walking 🐕🦺and toilet times as close to normal as you can
* Safe Space: Ensure pets have somewhere quiet that is always accessible to go to get some respite from all the activities and noise
* Introduce Guests Gently: Ask guests not to approach pets, instead allow pets to approach them when ready. We recommend gentle strokes on the chest for the count of 3 then stop. Do they ask for more or move away? 🤔
* Calming Activities: Long-lasting tendon chews, frozen lickmats, food hidden in boxes 📦 etc can help promote calmness and reduce over arousal.
* Familiar Scents: If taking pets with to visit family, take their bed/blankets 🛏 with so they have some home comfort
* Over-stimulation: Don't force interactions. Enforce regular breaks by giving them a calm 😌activity to do. Always supervise them
