While we frantically wrap last-minute gifts and bake cookies for Santa, our furry friends also like to play a role in the holiday festivities. Like that cat who insists on batting at the tinsel on the Christmas tree, causing more than a few ornaments to come crashing to the ground. Or the dog who gets a little too excited about the dinner table and keeps begging for food.
But at the end of the day, our companions are just happy to be included in the celebration. And it wouldn't be the same without them. So as a thank you, we at Bored Panda put together a collection of funny and heartwarming pictures that show what this joyous occasion really looks like when you have pets. Here's to them making every moment a little more special and a lot more fun.
When you're done scrolling through the publication, check out last year's version here.
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Our 1st Christmas Together And Our 15th Christmas Together
My Cat And My Tree Are Both Plugged In And Ready For Christmas
Happy Cat
We Got The Cat A Cardboard Scratchy Taco Truck For Christmas. I Think She Likes It
Left The Patio Door Open Briefly For Some Fresh Air. Shortly After, I Heard Some Rustling Behind The Christmas Tree... I Don't Have A Cat
You do now. The cat has adopted you. That's how we got our cat. It started hanging around our house as a kitten. We asked all our neighbors if they knew anyone who was missing a kitten and everyone said no so we took him in and fed him and yeah
Cat Christmas Tree Portrait
My Paraplegic Kitten’s Reaction To Seeing Her First Christmas Tree
If Your Presents Arrived Late, It’s Because Santa’s Helpers Are A Little Slower Than Normal
My 12-Year-Old Girl Accidentally Picked Up One Of The Stars From Our Christmas Decorations When She Was Sniffing For Crumbs
Best Christmas Gift
It’s Gonna Be His First Christmas
I Made Christmas Ornaments Of My 3 Cats
Found This Festive Little Guy On My Outside Christmas Tree
Christmas Thief
Took My Dogs To Take Their Yearly Christmas Photos. It's Really Hard When You Have One Super Photogenic Dog And One Dog Having An Existential Crisis
We Just Put The Tree Up, And This Little Monster Climbed Into It
My Udon Noodle Wishes You A Pleasant Christmas Eve
They call them nope ropes, but how can you say nope to that face?
Came Home To Find This. Not Sure How Long She Was In There, But She Was Pretty Content To Stay In There
Meet The New Addition To The Family, Chester. He Makes A Wonderful Christmas Tree Decoration
Merry Christmas From The Head Tilt Triplets
This Will Forever Be My Favorite Picture Of Her. She Loves Christmas
Man, the difference between a British Short Hair and an European Short Hair is absurd.
Presenting My Cat With Her Christmas Present
He Doesn’t Attack The Tree Or Try To Knock It Down
Nerien And His Christmas Cookie
I've Just Learned This Is An Issue For Cat Owners Over Christmas
One Happy Dogo
Cats And Glass Ornaments Don't Mix
Alfons Showing His Coconut Flake Stash While Practicing For The Christmas Photos
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
She Got What She Wanted For Christmas
Merry Christmas From A 17-Year-Old Walter
Treat Every Day Like Christmas
There Are 2 Cats In This Picture
I see no cat. It is now a temporary tree spirit that demands treats and pets.
I Took My Pet Ducks To Mind Games (They Love Browsing Stores). They Stopped And Stared At This Toy For Several Minutes. I Think I Know What They Want For Christmas
My Boyfriend And I Noticed A New Ornament In The Tree
My Mom Got Our Cat, Sardine, A Fancy Cat Bed For Christmas. She Loves It
Boxes are cat traps. Even a square/rectangle shape drawn on the ground is a cat trap
My Parents' Cat Interrupted Board Games Over Christmas. He Just Likes To Be Involved
It Is A Giant Play Toy
Ready To Help Santa Paws. I Don’t Know About The Naughty/Nice List, But I’m Certainly On The "Trying My Best" List
Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree
My Blind 18-Year-Old Dog Clearly Loves The New Christmas Lights
Ornament Installer
My Coworker's Dog Does Not Like The Annual Christmas Photo
Wiped Out From Opening Presents
Just once I’d love to have a Christmas with the same weather as these people. ☀️🌵🎍🪨
How Cute Are These Two?
My GF Setup The Christmas Tree. It’s Our Cats First Christmas
Aww <3 cute. Just please make sure not to leave your cats alone around christmas trees with string lights. Sometimes they can get wrapped up in them and seriously injured.
Ciri Has Absolutely No Idea Who Ate The Christmas Cookies While We Were Out Shopping. She’s So Mad She Can’t Even Look At The Plate
OK, the humans need to take some responsibility for not putting that plate where an unsupervised dog couldn't get at it.
Roscoe Took Christmas Decoration Duty Into His Own Hands (Paws) Last Night
Thought You All Would Appreciate My Pups' Christmas Photo
Picture From Our Christmas Card This Year
My Christmas Kitty
Baby And Snuffles Experiencing Their First Christmas Tree
Looking Happy And Eating Dried Apples While Waiting For Christmas
Silent Night, Golden Night
Little Snow Nuggets
Poor pup! This is incredibly common with cocker spaniels. Happens to ours if we don’t get his hair cut shorter. Their curly hair is like a magnet for snow & it balls up & freezes. The only thing that works is sticking them in a warm tub.
My Building Is Having Pet Photos With Santa - This Is Her Costume
Hunter Wishes You Merry Christmas
Oh, Deer
Arthur’s First Encounter With A (Fake) Christmas Tree
When You Can't Wait For Christmas To Arrive
Catzilla Takes Over The Christmas Town
Christmas Kitty
After Matching Wits Numerous Times, There Is Only One More Option To Keep The Cat Out Of The Christmas Tree
Sweet Peepers’ Outfit For Our Christmas Photos
It's Beginning To Feel A Lot Like Christmas
His Majesty Sir Talis Singing Under The Christmas Tree
First Year With A Cat = First Year With No Christmas Tree, Totally Worth It
Yup, same for me, 1st time in 44 years widout a tree, but i don't have a cat, i have two.... I call them Apokalipse and Armageddon...
Merry Christmas
Meowy Christmas Everyone
Tried To Make Our Annual Christmas Card Last Night
And All Through The House, Not A Creature Was Stirring, Except For The Sausage Dog Doing Zoomies And Trying To Fight Me
Merry Christmas From Bitty
I Wouldn’t Get Up At 6:00 AM On The Christmas Day To Feed Him So He Dragged This Bag Of Treats Into The Bathroom And Tore It Open
My Dog’s Best Friend Had Puppies, And We Brought One Home Today. Merry Christmas
Our Christmas Village Has Been Invaded By The Jólakötturinn
From Icelandic Christmas folklore: “The Yule Cat, known as Jólakötturinn, a huge and vicious cat who is described as lurking about the snowy countryside during Christmas time and eating people who have not received any new clothes to wear before Christmas Eve.”
My New Christmas Tree Decoration. A Christmas Bird
It’s Because I’m Green Isn’t It?
Huxley Is Santa’s Best Helper
Meet My Little Lambs Born Just Before Christmas This Past Year, Holly And Leroy. (Named Obviously For The Winter Holly Berry And Our Leroy The Redneck Reindeer)
My Old Girl Wanted To Help Me Decorate For Christmas
My Simba Always Loved Destroying Our Christmas Tree. I Will Forever Miss The Chaos He Brought To Our Holidays
Baby Mochi And Her Little Christmas Outfit
Furry Christmas
Cats Being Cats On Christmas Morning
I Made Pumpkin Pie For Christmas. Bonita Felt The Need To Contribute
One Week Closer To My Favorite Time Of The Year
It's Sarek The Red-Nosed Reindeer
The 12th Day Of Spikemas. Most People Stage Their Elf Shenanigans. Bentley Takes Care Of Him In Our House
My Heart Is Full
Kitty Has Located The Elf
Christmas Morning - Doggo Rips Out Santa's Innards Then Falls Asleep On His Limp Corpse. No Remorse
Our Boys Just Can’t Wait To Spread Christmas Cheer
My Mom's Doggo Maggie Sitting Pretty For A Christmas Pic
What a great arrangement. The picture looks like a Renaissance painting. The tree is Maggie's hair turban and in the background is the train of her dress. I'm in love
What Do You Think Sif Is Hoping To Find Under The Tree This Christmas? My Guess Would Be Mealworms
My Bearded Dragon Ready For The Christmas
My Cat Has The Same Face I Did When I Found Out How Much My Wife Spent On These Christmas Collars
Ollie's First Christmas
Dazzled By The Light
Her first Christmas was in a shelter. This is her first Christmas with us and her first tree. I guess no ornaments this year.
When The Excitement Of Christmas Day Became Too Much
Happy Advent From Topper
Christmas Doggie
Booker Wants To Wish Everyone A Happy Holidays And Merry Christmas
I "Tried" Taking Christmas Pics With My Cat In An Elf Outfit
Merry Christmas From The Dog House
My Cat Waiting On My Daughter's Skateboard I Got Her For Christmas
Ole “Catzilla” Here, Making A Bed In The Christmas Village
I Take A Picture Of My Cat With My Christmas Tree Every Year. Happy 5th Christmas, Ramona Quimby
I Wonder If I Can See Santa On His Way
Merry Christmas! Love, Schnitzel, Paco, Buddy, And Jupiter
First Year With A Small Tree
Merry Christmas
This Is Rowdy And He Wants You To Have A Great Christmas
That's my ball over there and I dare you to get by me to get it! Are you gonnna try? Are you?
Ferret Christmas
Awwwww! It just goes to show, even if you're strange you can be cute at Christmas!
Cherry The Red-Eared Reindeer
I Can't Wait For Christmas
Born On December 27th. It's His First Christmas
Son Of A Nutcracker
Santa, Please Forgive Me For All The Times I Bit My Mummy This Year
Another Day, Another Festive Hat
You just wait until I get my teeth on your brand new shoes or whatever. Revenge will be mine!
My Sister's Dog Watching Us Open Presents On Christmas Morning
Jack The Puggle Waiting For Christmas Dinner
Will you dispense with the niceties and hurry up so I can stuff my maw!
My girl under her stocking waiting for her presents... dahliatree...6c8ed5.jpg
I want a cat so much just because they are so so cute. But I can't risk the damage lol. Maybe one day. Ahhh sooo cute
Well, they aren't called "murder mittens" for nothing 😹🤣😹 Have you considered fostering? It's just like a test drive before buying a car.
Load More Replies...I am appaled to not have found a SINGLE LEOPARD GECKO! Jokes aside, so CUTE!
My girl under her stocking waiting for her presents... dahliatree...6c8ed5.jpg
I want a cat so much just because they are so so cute. But I can't risk the damage lol. Maybe one day. Ahhh sooo cute
Well, they aren't called "murder mittens" for nothing 😹🤣😹 Have you considered fostering? It's just like a test drive before buying a car.
Load More Replies...I am appaled to not have found a SINGLE LEOPARD GECKO! Jokes aside, so CUTE!