The gentle little jingle of a bell collar floats in the air, followed by the soft little "fsh fsh!" of hooved feet through powdery snow. Dreaming of the day he can become a member of Santa's Reindeer team, Santa's Little Helper is on a quest to fulfill his title to the fullest!

For donations of $50 and above, you can employ this adorable little reindeer gives you 20% extra bones on all donations if equipped to one of the dogs in your kennel not up for auction and not dead. This companion is not stackable, so if you have more than one equipped, the effect will still only count once. The effect also will not apply to total amounts from bone specials, and will only award 20% extra of the original donation amount. An alert will show up on the top of this page if you have one equipped to a dog in your kennel. Example:

-you donate $10 on a double special, you will earn 22 bones (10 original amount, 2 from the item, and then another 10 from the original being doubled).

So, hop on over to the Donation Page to befriend Santa's Little Helper, and he'll help to spread his Christmas cheer all throughout the new year! But hurry, because he'll only be around from now through to the first week of January!

Santa Paws his holding daily drawings for special items up until Christmas! These drawings will be posted each day both here, in the news, as well as in Mini Updates/Admin Updates, at some point before midnight. There is one prize per drawing and it's completely up to chance (haha, NOT the companion!) to choose the winner. The rules are simple and they are straightforward, but they are not to be trifled with.

Read the Rules!:
1.) Post ONCE in this thread before Midnight Ala time, on the day the thread is posted in order to be entered into the drawing. (If you post more than once, you may be disqualified from the running)
2.) You may post once per account.
3.) Players found creating more than the 2 allowed accounts to enter these contests will be BANNED from Alacrity; no exceptions. Don't do it -- we hate banning people.
4.) All Alacrity standard rules still apply! If you're not familiar with them, please take some time to do so -- you can find the link at the bottom of every page!
5.) We don't care what your post says, provided you follow the above rules, although Santa Paws is also picking a secondary winner based on criteria listed at the end of this post :)

This drawing will be for: an Entire Ultra Fancy Chocolate Cake

You can find the Entire Ultra Fancy Chocolate Cake thread here!

The winner will receive an Entire Ultra Fancy Chocolate Cake, which has five uses and gives the dog you feed a piece to -10 Hunger, +50 Energy, +5 speed, and +5 drive!!

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Day 4 had some awfully Punny Jokes!

The Winner of the Baby Griffin (drawn completely at random) is: iSN {Not Amused Kennels}! Congratulations!! You will be receiving your prize shortly :D

We had some terribly punny jokes submitted yesterday. So many, in fact, that we had to choose a pool of our favorites and draw a random winner from the pool -- we just couldn't decide on one!

Kittylyn posted:
Why does Scrooge love Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?

Because every buck is dear to him.

Or, should we say deer to him? XD

Kittylyn has earned a Magical Alarm Clock for their part in keeping us up well into the night, laughing at all the awesome puns! Good job! You will be receiving your prize shortly :)

Happy Howlidays!
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P.S. Santa Paws told me he'll pull this round's second winner based on the best gift you ever received and why. We want to hear about the coolest thing you ever had gifted to you, but more importantly, WHY it was so special to you. It's the "why" that counts for this one :D

Good evening, Alacrites!

Since you all seem to love exploring Ala-Town so much, you can now buy more explore turns! Head on over to the Bone Exchange Page to exchange 1 Bone for 20 more explore moves! Keep in mind that if you buy turns which give you more than 30 total on your account, you must use them before the next 30 minute roll-over, or else you'll lose them!

Also, I wanted to shine a little spotlight on this month's Donation Item. With a Bone purchase of $25, or more, you will automatically receive the companion Santa`s Sleigh. This one acts a little like the Baby Griffins in that it will bring you a free present on the evening of the 1st and the 15th of each month, but Santa also stops by on Christmas Eve! Additionally, Santa`s Sleigh gives you better odds of receiving rare and valuable items. You only have a few more days to pick up this companion for your chance to receive something awesome this Christmas Eve!

Finally, don't forget about the Rare Item Auction which has some extra special stuff in it for the holidays. These auctions end on Christmas Eve, so it is the perfect chance to pick up the perfect gift for yourself, or for that friend who seems to have everything ^.^;

We hope you're having tons of fun during this holiday season!