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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP was it you who dreamed of the puppy under the tree? Have kids expressed that recently? Surely they know Santa is an abstraction, right? That you are getting them the puppy?

I agree get puppy before the holiday or after during the break before NYE. Especially if you are entertaining it will be more stressful for the puppy afterwards. [/quote]

Op here. All the kids know a puppy is coming. They all believe in Santa. We’ve been asking them what they want for Christmas and all of them say they want a puppy.

Yes they’d know the puppy was from us and not  Santa. I’d assume they’d think Santa made it happen though.

We can only pick up the puppy on the December 22 or 23 due to the breeders schedule.

Maybe my post was too flippant but this was a major decision for us and we’ve been patiently waiting for over a year. This isn’t a toy for us.[/quote]

Then stop focusing on the photo-op and act like you understand the gravity of the decision to add a puppy to a family with young kids. If your kids won't be just as excited to see the puppy on Christmas because it's been around for 2-3 days and the newness has worn off, you're not ready for a puppy. At all.

If your breeder is responsible, they'd be fine with you picking up the puppy after christmas, when all the holiday chaos has been sorted. That's the most responsible plan. Second best is taking the kids with you to the breeder for puppy pickup. If you think they're going to whinge about the trip, well, again, that's important commentary on your/their readiness to have responsibility for a puppy. Third best is leaving the kids with the grandparents while an adult gets the puppy, and doing "Santa didn't want the puppy to have to wait in the sleigh so he trusted us with an early Christmas gift", which still affords you the puppy-in-a-box photo, if you're super into the puppy being a prop. Fourth would be enlisting your grands to help you get the puppy home surreptitiously and keep it hidden but handled for a couple days. If you can't coordinate those logistics, you're probably not ready for a puppy.

Suggesting the puppy go to the grands for a couple days so you can time its arrival to coordinate with the whole Santa myth says a LOT about how you see the puppy, whether or not you cop to it. The thread is right to point this out, and you'd be wise to actually listen to it instead of trying to explain it away. [/quote]

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