Well, I’m so happy because it turns out I’ve been good again this year and Santa Paws brought me a lovely present. I was a bit worried as I’ve been a bit naughty this year, what with free running up the tree, peeing in mummy’s planters and climbing on the tv unit. Having said that though I have helped mummy with her work, snuggled with Peppar to make him feel better, played with my sisters and taken mummy for walkies to keep fit. Maybe the lap snuggles with mummy also helped with being on the good list instead of the naughty one.
I was very excited on Christmas Eve so when we went out for walkies I couldn’t help but keep a lookout for Santa, just in case he needed me to guide him to our flat. Mummy said that he wouldn’t come whilst I was awake but I just had to check so I climbed high up the tree so that I could check for myself with my blindie super senses, I listened as hard as I could but couldn’t hear anything at all, no jingle bell, no reindeer hooves, nothing. I sniffed the air thinking that I might at least smell the reindeers or the smell of magic Santa but nothing except the familiar sounds of the park and the trees and animals nearby. That evening worn out after climbing, running and playing I drifted off to sleep hoping that I would wake in the morning and know that I had been in the good list.
Christmas Day was such fun, I got up early to see if Santa had left me anything under our cat tree, there were lots of presents and I sniffed as many of them as I could reach but even with my sense of smell I couldn’t tell if any of them were for me. I would just have to wait until mummy and daddy get up. It seemed like days and days before they got up coz I was so excited. Finally they woke up and we were all running round them, saying “ Hurry up, hurry up, we wanna open our presents” “ok, hang on just a bit longer and we’ll all open our presents together as a family.” There were lots of presents to help open and we had such fun playing in all the crinkly paper that we all thought that was our present until daddy said “Jenny, this ones for you”. Wow I was on the good list after all and I started to paw at the paper to find out what was inside. With daddy’s help I opened the present and mummy described it to me whilst I sat on the wrapper and had a good sniff. I had got a lovely box with my name on it to keep my bandana’s and bow ties in. What a fashion diva I’m gonna be from now on with such a beautiful box. Millie got a toy bag to keep all her nobbly balls in, Angelin got a Christmas blanket and more of her favourite crinkle wands and Peppar got a new snuggle bed and special bowl to help him eat now he’s got no teeth and we all got some new placemats for our food bowls. We were all so happy, we can of course all share the presents and it turns out Millie really likes the blanket and I inspected the toy bag which Angelin also likes to stick her head in, hopefully I’ll get to share Peppars new snuggle bed like I did the old one (which mummy says is gross and needs a wash) but no-one can share my box, it’s just for me and has my name on it, no one else has any bandanas or bow ties, I feel like such a special and lucky girl.
We didn’t get to spend the day with mummy’s brother as we normally do but mummy and daddy spoke to their families on the screen like mummy does for her work meetings, of course as usual we were all paraded onto the screen (we all pretended to be asleep and looking extra cute but we knew what was going on). Then mummy cooked dinner which smelt yummy, so yummy that all us girls joined them at the dinner table in the hope we could sneak a mouthful or two or at least remind them we were there so they didn’t forget to save us some. We took it in turns to sneak paws onto the table to get a closer sniff of what they were eating, each time we got a “ No Jenny, No Millie, No Angelin; no paws allowed on the table, you’ll get a taste soon enough” We shouldn’t have worried as they always save us some of whatever they eat and Christmas dinner is no different Peppar just let us get on with scamming dinner and then just appeared to reap the rewards once mummy and daddy had put some down for us – he’s so wise. We also got to help mummy and daddy open their presents and one of them was a big giant play pit with lots of crinkly things in it and Angelin’s favourite – shredded paper. We all helped find all the gifts hidden in the depths of the box, I dug and dug and helped mummy find some bottles which she was very pleased about. “Good girl Jenny you found the wine!”. Then as a reward we got to play with the crinkly bits and Angelin ran around stealing all the paper shreds to play with.
We had such an ameowzing day we were all so spoilt with such lovely gifts 🎁 and after having my usual afternoon walkies with mummy I was exhausted so I snuggled down for a nap on mummy’s lap with Peppar, dreaming of all the designer bandanas and bow ties I’m gonna put in my special box.
For me everyday is like Christmas I still can’t believe that I am so lucky and have a wonderful home to live in and explore, as much food as I can eat and a loving, caring family who encourage and allow me to be me. For me that is enough but to get presents on top of all that is just the best and most purrfect life I could ever have wished for.
Jenny’s Story 