December 9. According
to the Crazy Holiday calendar, today is Christmas Card Day. The idea of Christmas cards dates back to
the mid 1800’s and they reportedly were started in England. Cards grew in popularity over the years
including the era of postcards – when
many colorful images were produced – including some pretty scary looking
Santas! In 1913, the Hallmark company
was started, and their production of
cards continues to this day. However,
with the advent of the Internet and email – I’m not sure that as many people
today are still sending cards. The
increasing cost of postage doesn’t help things either! But that’s kind of sad…
We canines are often included in holiday greetings. One survey said that 64% of pet owners
include news about their pets in a holiday card and 36% of people include our
photos. We would be included in both
those stats. Our human writes the boring
holiday newsletter that she inserts in every card – outlining our
less-than-exciting lives over the last year.
Does anybody even READ those things?
But it’s this feeling that people MIGHT want to know what you have been
doing since LAST Christmas. So for every
card sent, the newsletter includes SOMETHING about us dogs. And really – why wouldn’t it? We ARE the center of our human’s universe so
it’s ONLY appropriate that she write about how adorable we are, how many awards
we won, or how many times we pooped in the last year. OK.
She doesn’t REALLY include the poop part. But you get the idea – and of COURSE she adds
one of those wonderful antler photos as well.
I found a link to a guy who took some amazing photos of his
dog for his Christmas cards every year.
And I thought WE had it bad.
Check out THIS site. http://peterthorpephotography.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/seasons-greetings.html My fear is that this site will give my human
even more ideas….
We received OUR first Christmas card the other day. Last year, the first one came from the Vet. This year,
the paper delivery person beat out the Vet.
Interesting to see who my human has for friends…
Anyway, I must go and put my pawtograph on those riveting
Christmas newletters. Have a great
day.
© Linda Wozniak
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