Stanley ....

.... came to wish the Residents a Happy Christmas today wearing his 'Yappy Christmas' bandanna.    They gave him his Christmas present and despite it being wrapped like a musical parcel it took him just seconds to 'open' it.  
They all adore him and he loves them all too.   With them he is so gentle but when he came to say hello to me later he bounded up the stairs and had a mad five minutes like any normal four year old lab.