It’s obvious but worth repeating: Dogs are not just for Christmas

Dog should not be given as presents for Christmas — the time of year when no one as the time or energy to look after them properly, writes Terry Prone

THE animal welfare organisations are indubitably correct, for the most part, when issue their warnings, at this time of the year, that a dog is not just for Christmas.

This is something of a universal truth, allowing the right-thinking who make up the overwhelming majority of the readers of this paper to join together in one of those self-righteous collective agreements currently so fashionable and say it’s just a disgrace, so it is, the way some parents give in to their children’s canine demands at this time of the year when they have neither the space nor the time to adequately take care of a dog given as a Christmas present.