DOG

IN A

MANGER

Whilst searching for a particular story on the BBC News webpage, I came across the following headline, dated 23.12.2021.

 "Pug cross stars as Jesus in nativity performed by dogs.”

 Now there’s a zinger… one for Ripley!

 It goes on… 

"The Christmas story has been told with the help of a Welsh chapel's unlikely helpers - the congregation's dogs. 

Reverend Rory Castle Jones, minister of the chapel near Pontardawe*, Swansea, said, "We looked at each dog and thought 'Who looks like they could be a Mary, who looks like they could be a good shepherd?" 

"No auditions were held for the parts, with dogs selected because they looked like certain characters."

"The pooches were dressed in tinsel, tea towels and colourful scarves brought by members of the congregation to assume their roles."

Baby Jesus was played by a “pug Jack Russell cross”, who will obviously have a leading role in a future Good Friday production… even though its performance might be a bit wooden. Yes… it’s nailed on!

And for next Christmas, hows about…“101 Damnations”? 

Talk about barking mad! You couldn’t make it up!

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 1 BCE – CE 65) 

*Shouldn’t that be Pontar-duh?