'Dog mum' serves her pooches steak for Christmas – costing more than her dinner
A ' dog mum ' treats her pooches like kids and serves them prime steak for Christmas – which costs more than her dinner.
Yasmin El-Saie, 45, says she's "best friends" with her pet chihuahuas, Chilli, 11, and Sukhi, 5, and loves to celebrate Christmas Day with them. She spends £10 on an organic fillet steak from a local store for the pooches and takes them for a long walk in their festive jumpers.
Yasmin dresses Chilli up in a suit and Sukhi in a tartan dress on Christmas Eve and loves to wake up with them on Christmas morning. She even gets them a Christmas tree each to decorate and loves to relax with the pair after they’ve eaten their dinners.
Yasmin, a content creator and anxiety coach, from Notting Hill, West London, said: “My plate of food costs less than theirs. I love spoiling them. It’s such an endearing and rewarding thing. They appreciate the attention and the energy you give them.”
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Yasmin even gets them a Christmas tree each to decorate (Yasmin El-Saie / SWNS)
Yasmin El-Saie with her pet chihuahuas, Chilli, 11 (right) and Sukhi, 5 (left) (Yasmin El-Saie / SWNS)Yasmin grew up celebrating Christmas surrounded by her pets so felt it was natural to start a tradition with Chilli in 2012 when she first got him. She said: “I don’t have kids. He is my kid in a way.”
Yasmin has a dinner party on Christmas Eve for her mum, Helga, 84, and friends and everyone gets dressed up – including the dogs. The mutts also open their presents, which is often a bow tie or handkerchief and treats.
Chilli and Sukhi have their own beds in Yasmin’s bedroom but Chilli will regularly climb into Yasmin’s bed – and they’ll often all wake up together on Christmas morning.
Chilli the chihuahua with his own doggy Christmas tree (Yasmin El-Saie / SWNS)
Chilli the chihuahua in a pair of Christmas sunglasses. (Yasmin El-Saie / SWNS)She said: “Chilli sleeps with me a lot. We wake up together. They get so excited, dancing around.”
The trio will go for a walk around the park mid-morning, dressed in their jumpers. The dogs have a seasonal wardrobe of over 50 items, collected over the years, including matching denim jackets with Yasmin. She said: “I take them for a long walk through the park.”
When they are back, Yasmin cooks up her dinner of roasted vegetables and the pups’ steak.
A chihuahua Christmas! Chilli (right) and Sukhi (left) in gift boxes (Yasmin El-Saie / SWNS)
Chilli the chihuahua with his Christmas presents. (Yasmin El-Saie / SWNS)She said: “I made it a tradition to always buy a fillet steak. A nice organic piece of meat. I’m conscious where meat comes from. It has to be a really good steak. I pan fry it for him and cut it up into small pieces. Chilli would go nuts, dancing around my ankles. Sukhi inherits the tradition – I can’t say she complains.”
Yasmin also gets them each a real Christmas tree which she can replant – but she has run out of space in her garden this year. Instead, she got a joint white fake tree decorated with dog-themed baubles.
She said: “I have a whole selection of doggy baubles I’ve collected over the years. I have a snow globe with a doggy in it.”
The dogs and Yasmin enjoy a “lazy” rest of the day watching Christmas films and lounging around. Since having Chilli, Yasmin says she's fallen back in love with Christmas.
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She added: “There was a time in my life I wasn’t crazy about Christmas. They brought it back for me. They are my companions. They are like angels who have been sent to me.”
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