A Shtinky Little Christmas (Mutts);

A giftable Christmas-themed MUTTS keepsake edition from New York Times best-selling author Patrick McDonnell.

€œCan we really lose something that€s already lost?€ Inside Patrick McDonnell€s A Shtinky Little Christmas, Earl the dog and Mooch the cat celebrate the season by taking in a wayside waif, who they promptly name Shtinky Puddin€. Shtinky is a tiger-striped trash-can forager, frequent purrer, and lover of shpagetti, potpie, and shpagetti. 

As Christmas approaches, Shtinky Puddin€ grows ever more homesick and decides to depart the comfort and safety of Earl and Mooch€s protection in hopes of finding home. With uncommunicative snowmen and zero luck, Shtinky Puddin€ gets lost in a blizzard, only to be found by Earl and Mooch, who then get lost themselves. Just in the Nick of time, a jolly rotund, red suit€“wearing, white-bearded human approaches and delivers the traveling trio straight to their peoples€ doorstep€"only to learn that Shtinky Puddin€s peoples have come to claim their lost tiger-striped kitty named Jules.

With caviar rewards, Christmas naps, and New Year€s resolutions to €œdo less,€ this emotive Mutts gift book reminds us that there is indeed a reason for the season with themes of friendship, thankfulness, family, home, and hearth.