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45 Dog Christmas Puns to Celebrate the Howl-idays!

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The most won-dog-ful time of the year is the Christmas Collie-days! If we’ve started off being too punny for you, buckle up—we aren’t going to give you any paws, as we prepare to celebrate the festive season with the ulti-mutt list of canine Christmas puns!

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Dog Christmas Puns: Pawsome Season’s Greetings

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If you are writing Christ-mutt cards to any of your pup-loving friends, you could wish them a “Merry Woofmas and a Yappy New Year” and send them lots of “Pugs and Kisses.” However you want to express your seasonal greetings, we’ve got you covered. Check out this list of puptastic grreetings for you to use:

  • Merry Woofmas!
  • Happy Howl-idays!
  • Feliz Navi-dane!
  • Happy Collie-days!
  • Season’s Treatings!
  • Happy Paw-lidays!
  • Yappy New Year!
  • Happy Christmutt!
  • May your Christmas be furry and bright!
  • Wishing you all a collar-ful Christmas!
  • Sending Pugs and kisses this holiday season
  • Wishing you a season full of drool-tide cheer!
  • Wishing you a new year full of treats and toys!
  • After another ruff year, we wish you a won-dog-ful Christmas!

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Dog Christmas Puns: Collar-ful Carols

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Maybe you’ve been through a rough pooch this year. So, on Christmas Eve, while you are waiting for Santa Claws to make an appearance after he Dachshund through the Snow with Rudolph the Red-Nose Retriever, you and your family might enjoy rockin’ a-hound the Christmas tree together, wearing your Pugly Christmas sweaters, sipping egg-dog or a glass of whine, and as the snow falls softly outside, cheering, “Let it Chow! Let it Chow! Let it Chow!” If you’d like to sing a few more Christmas carols, we’ve got some dog-natured suggestions for you:

  • We “Woof” You a Merry Christmas
  • Oh Little Town of Bethlehound
  • Bark! The Herald Angels Sing!
  • The Fur-st Noel
  • (I’m Dreaming of a) White Christmutt
  • O Christmas Treat! O Christmas Treat!
  • Deck the Halls With Bows on Collies
  • There’s No Place Like Bone for the Holidays
  • Pets Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
  • It’s the Most Wonderful Pom of the Year
  • Have Yourself a Furry Little Christmas
  • Have a Holly Collie Christmas
  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Retriever
  • All I Want for Christmas Is to Chew
  • O Come All Ye Fur-ry…
  • Dachshund Through the Snow
  • Feliz Navi-dog
  • O Tannen Bone
  • Let It Chow! Let It Chow! Let It Chow!
  • Rockin-a-Hound the Christmas Tree
  • The Little Drummer Borzoi
  • All I Want for Christmas Inu!

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Bone-fide Canine Christmas Classics

cute toy poodle dog in a dragon costume near the Christmas tree
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Does Santa Paws know your dog’s been a furry good boy or girl this year? Hopefully, Santa’s little yelpers will send something nice for them; otherwise, they might have a bone to pick with Rudolph! Although we won’t be there to wish you a Merry Corgimas ourselves, we hope that you won’t be visited by either the Ghost of Winter’s Mastiff or the Ghost of Christmas Fur-ture. It’s a dog-gift-dog world out there, and you may be tempted to Pekingese at the presents under the tree, but there should be no Snoopy-ing before the big day!

Over the festive period, if you get hungry, you could prepare a charchewterie board with all the usual treats: bread, cold meats, cheeses, and chew toys before you snuggle up with your furry friend and watch a classic Christmas movie, such as:

  • It’s a Woof-derful Life
  • Frosty the Doberman
  • Jingle All the Wag
  • National Lampoodle’s Christmas Vacation
  • The Pinscher Who Stole Christmas
  • A Charlie Hound Christmas
  • Meet Me in St. Sloughi
  • Frosty the Yellow Snowman
  • Fire Hydrant on 34th Street

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Final Thoughts

We hope that you are now pawsitively happy and that this article has unleashed all kinds of festive joy for you this holiday season. Remember, there’s no place like “bone” for the holidays! Merry Christmas to all, and to all, a good BITE!


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