Having an invitation to pop round Christmas Eve, me and my husband walked down the road with our new collie dog, and a bag of Christmas presents. Our old dog sadly passed away a fortnight ago, and we are delighted with our new collie. My husband was prepared to take our dog back home, rather than take her in the house (a two minute walk) but wanted to show the dog to his sister. His brother in law answered the door and was appallingly rude - didn't greet us and told us that dogs weren't welcome (though they used to have a collie) . I dropped the Xmas presents in the porch and couldn't get the old grouch (brother in law) to understand that we were happy to drop the dog back home and return. We just left because of his rudeness and this has spoiled our Christmas as you can imagine. It's bad enough at present with my Mum seriously ill in hospital, but the in-laws don't seem to care about that either. I don't think I want to see them again.
