I’ve Been a Good Dog, Santa!

Kristien Weber, a senior editor at New American Library, and her fiancé took their pug Samson out to have his picture taken with Santa Claus—although she confesses that just a few minutes later, the dog was using Santa’s beard as a chew toy… Meanwhile, Angela James, the executive editor at Samhain Publishing, sent us a picture of her younger beagle/border collie mix, Reese. “He just turned one and this is his first Christmas with us, but he’s had no problem embracing all the holiday decorations and festivities,” she says. “His brother, Heath, is a little more camera shy and aggressive, and would just as soon eat the pillow as snuggle up to it.”

Cats, on the other hand, take a much more jaded view of this Santa business—if Poly, who lives with Black Dog and Leventhal production designer Marie Mundaca, is anything to go by. Her name is short for Polyhymnia, but as it happens she’s also polydactyl…just like Ernest Hemingway‘s cats.

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