{"id":26384,"date":"2019-11-15T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=26384"},"modified":"2019-11-15T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T20:50:00","slug":"pets-see-santa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/pets-see-santa\/","title":{"rendered":"No Crying, Kicking, Screaming when Pets See Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sanptx.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having been a photographer most of my adult career, I can tell you it&#8217;s much easier to take pictures of dogs seeing Santa than toddlers and babies. For those who have taken youngsters to a mall or other location for Santa pictures, you just can&#8217;t predict how they will respond. Sometimes they&#8217;re fine with it but when they&#8217;re not &#8212; lookout! Babies and children can cry, kick and scream at the top of their lungs! Dogs&#8211;not so much.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning in mid-November the time honored tradition of Santa photos launches, and within the many dates that the guy in red appears, are some special times and events for beloved pets.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/christmas\/pet-santa-portraits.html\">California Pets with Santa Claus<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Events and dates are subject to change<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>STATEWIDE: Pet Smart Santa Photo Days December 14-15, 2019 &amp; December 21-22, 2019<\/li>\n<li>STATEWIDE: Petco Santa Portraits December 14, 15 &amp; 21, 2019 at participating stores.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>ANTIOCH: Pet Food Express\u00a0 Dec.1, 8, 14 &amp; 15, 2019<\/li>\n<li>ARCADIA: Westfield Santa Anita\u00a0 Dec.19<\/li>\n<li>BREA: Brea Mall Nov.24<\/li>\n<li>CARLSBAD: Carlsbad Premium Outlets\u00a0 Nov.24<\/li>\n<li>CHICO: Butte Humane Society\u00a0 Nov.23 &amp; Dec.7<\/li>\n<li>DANA POINT:\u00a0Dana Point Harbor Dec.7 &amp; 15 | Outlets at San Clemente Dec.15<\/li>\n<li>HUNTINGTON BEACH: Pacific City Dec.1, 8, 15 &amp; 22<\/li>\n<li>IRVINE: Irvine Spectrum Dec.14<\/li>\n<li>MILPITAS: Great Mall\u00a0 Dec.14<\/li>\n<li>MISSION VIEJO: The Shops at Mission Viejo Dec.8<\/li>\n<li>MONTCLAIR: Montclair Plaza\u00a0 Nov.11, 18, 25, 2019 &amp;\u00a0 Dec.2, 9, 16 &amp; 23<\/li>\n<li>MONTEBELLO: The Shops at Montebello\u00a0 Nov.12, 19 &amp; 26, 2019 &amp; Dec.3, 10 &amp; 17<\/li>\n<li>NAPA: Pet Food Express Nov.23<\/li>\n<li>ONTARIO: Ontario Mills Dec.1<\/li>\n<li>PACIFICA: Pet Food Express Nov.16 &amp; 23<\/li>\n<li>PLEASANTON: Stoneridge Shopping Center\u00a0 Nov.24<\/li>\n<li>RIVERSIDE: Mary S. Roberts Pet Adoption Center Nov.15 &amp; 16<\/li>\n<li>ROSEVILLE: Pet Food Express Nov.16,\u00a0 23,\u00a0 24 &amp; Dec.7<\/li>\n<li>PALO ALTO: Stanford Shopping Center Nov.24 &amp; Dec.8<\/li>\n<li>PALO ALTO: Pet Food Express Dec.7, 14 &amp; 21<\/li>\n<li>PLEASANTON: Stoneridge Shopping Center Nov.24<\/li>\n<li>ROLLING HILLS ESTATES: Pet Food Express Dec.7-8<\/li>\n<li>SACRAMENTO: Pet Food Express Dec.7<\/li>\n<li>SAN DIEGO: Fashion Valley Nov.24<\/li>\n<li>SANTA MONICA: Santa Monica Place Dec.11 &amp; 18,<\/li>\n<li>SANTA ROSA: Santa Rosa Plaza Dec.15<\/li>\n<li>STOCKTON: Weberstown Mall Nov.24<\/li>\n<li>TORRANCE: Del Amo Fashion Center\u00a0 Nov.17 &amp; Dec.15<\/li>\n<li>VALENCIA: Westfield Valencia Town Center Nov.16<\/li>\n<li>WALNUT CREEK: Pet Food Express\u00a0Nov.30 &amp; Dec.14<\/li>\n<li>WESTMINSTER: Westminster Mall Dec.1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been a photographer most of my adult career, I can tell you it&#8217;s much easier to take pictures of dogs seeing Santa than toddlers and babies. For those who have taken youngsters to a mall or other location for Santa pictures, you just can&#8217;t predict how they will respond. Sometimes they&#8217;re fine with it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26385,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26384\/revisions\/26385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}