It is no secret that I am an animal over. I also enjoy Christmas, and, although we really have no room for one in my home, I admire Nativity sets and recall playing with the figurines hidden in the hay of the set we had in display when I was a child.

I received a catalog yesterday from a gift/housewares company. Thumbing through the pages of attractive topiaries and other traditional Chrismas decor, I came across something with more, uh, NOVELTY.  Now,  I love kitsch, but this is just...WRONG:





If you cannot make it out from the photo, it is a nativiy scene of DOGS, including a Golden Retriever puppy as baby Jesus, Virgin Mary in Dalmatian form, St Joseph as some sort of Collie, and the wise men represented by a Boxer, German Shepherd, and Pug. Then we round out the visage with shepherds of a Schnauzer and Labrador Retriever, and a Cocker Spaniel angel.Besides some borderline sacrelidge, that which is *wrong* are as follows:To me, the Greman Shepherd and Collie should be Shepherds, since they are, in fact sheep-herding/guarding breeds. The Black Lab could represent the black king, and of course, I think another king should be a poodle.Maybe what is REALLY wrong is how much I am overthinking the arrangement of this tacky trash!