How to make sure your pets have a happy and safe Christmas 

Pete the Vet has some great tips to avoid an unhappy pet this festive season 

Pete the Vet: “Turkey tummy” is the most common reason for vets to be called out over the Christmas period. Also avoid giving cooked bones, and only offer small amounts of skin and fat: high fat foods can provoke pancreatitis, a serious, potentially fatal illness.

As Christmas approaches, we all want to make sure that everyone in our household has an enjoyable time over the festive period. And these days, many of us see our pets as part of our family. So we all want to do our best to make sure that their experience is as pleasant as possible. There are two aspects to this: avoiding the negative, and accentuating the positive.

First, the negative: avoid seasonal hazards.