It doesn’t matter if you’re 2 or 102 years old — there is something about the holidays that makes magic seem more than just an illusion. Best Puppy Surprise for Christmas 2016 . Many have traditions with family that have lasted for generations, yet the greatest memories are always the unexpected.Compilation of Christmas dogs
Anyone who’s been surprised at Christmas knows that those are the moments carried forever. Best Puppy Surprise for Christmas 2016 ,Sometimes it’s something that you wanted with every fiber in your being. Or maybe you never realized you needed or wanted it until someone else showed you.
When it comes to picking the perfect holiday present, there’s one gift that no trendy toy or video game system can beat: A puppy.
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Watch the above video compilation of people of all ages, crying tears of happiness after receiving their new best friends. We’d be surprised if you can make it through the whole thing without getting a little misty-eyed yourself.Best Puppy Surprise for Christmas 2016
And if all the joy makes you want to hand over a loveable pooch to someone special this winter, the ASPCA is a great place to start. Not only will you be giving companionship to a loved one, but you’ll be giving the dog a forever home where they can spend many happy holidays to come.Christmas puppy surprise
UPDATE: Though some frown upon giving pets as gifts, the ASPCA points out that it’s not a harmful practice: Best Puppy Surprise for Christmas 2016
In a scientific study conducted earlier this year and published in October, the ASPCA found that 96 percent of people who received pets as gifts reported it either increased or had no impact on their love or attachment to that pet. Also, 86 percent of the pets in the study are still in the home, a number roughly equivalent with the percentage of pets retained following a routine adoption.
Ruth Stevens, 30, helped her husband Scott, 31, a member of the Royal Navy, give their son and daughter an early present Dec. 7 when they told the kids that “Elf” had a special present for them. Tentative at first, the kids started tearing away at the wrapping paper to receive the best gift of all, which Ruth posted on Facebook. TODAY reached out for comment multiple times but didn’t hear back.
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The family from Plymouth, England, was reunited ahead of the holiday thanks to Scott’s return from a three-month deployment, according to The Herald in Plymouth.
“You didn’t expect that one, did you?” Scott says after the kids celebrate the surprise.
The clip above, which shows an 11-year-old girl unwrapping a Christmas present to reveal the 18-year-old foster sister she “hadn’t seen for years,” was uploaded to YouTube on Christmas Eve, 2009. And on Thursday, the girls’ brother (Picklwarrior on Reddit) shared the clip with the social network as a “feel good video fo the day.”
Other members of the Taylor family use the same Reddit account to discuss adoption-related issues on the social network. In this instance, the video doesn’t tell the whole story, Picklwarrior wrote, explaining that his parents ultimately adopted the older sister too:
We knew that her foster sister was going to be aging out of the foster care system, and anybody can be adopted as an adult. … That box had been sitting in the living room for about a month to build the anticipation for the day that the younger sister was able to open it. We flew her foster sister out that morning and got the kids all distracted and set up the whole thing. A month or so later we travelled back out of state to finalize the adoption of her foster sister.
Picklwarrior adds that the Taylor family now consists of 15 kids, including two biological children. Asked by another Reddit user why the family had adopted so many children, Picklwarrior replied simply: “Because kids need homes, and not enough other people will take them so we do.
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