Chocolate Labrador Christmas Shirt Santas Favorite Hunting Buddy Santa Hat Plaid Scarf

Santa’s Favorite Hunting Buddy runs across the print in stacked script and block lettering, with a small deer head set inside the word Hunting. Beside it sits a chocolate Lab with a Santa hat tipped over one ear. A green and red plaid scarf hangs down his chest. His tongue is out, the way a retriever looks after a long morning in wet grass and a short nap in the truck, and his eyes are on whoever is holding the camera.

Chocolate Labrador Christmas Shirt With a Santa Hat and Cattails Behind Him

This chocolate Labrador Christmas shirt belongs to the hunter whose Lab spends the season at his side, in the duck blind in November and by the tree in December. Behind the dog, an old shotgun leans against a stand of cattails, and an antler rests among pine boughs and pinecones at his shoulder. At his paws sit two gifts, one wrapped in red and black buffalo plaid with a gold deer head emblem on top, the other in kraft paper stamped with small evergreen trees. Red berries are tucked through the greenery, and the scarf on the dog repeats the same green and red. The banner under the lettering is framed with pine and a pair of tiny trees, so the words sit in the same woods as the dog. It is a hunting scene dressed for the holidays, and the dog sits in the middle of it as if he arranged the whole thing himself.

A Retriever Wearing the Title Santa Gave Him

We put the title on the dog because anyone who has watched a retriever carry a bird back across a cold pond knows who does the real work of the morning. A chocolate Lab owner will spot the rest of the likeness first: the deep brown coat, the soft hanging ears, the broad head turned toward the camera. The shirt fits the gift swap at deer camp and the drive to the tree farm with a wet Lab shaking off in the back seat. It also suits a dad who hunts every weekend of the season, or a neighbor whose Lab greets the whole street.

Where does this Labrador, shotgun, and cattails design fit outside of Christmas week?

The cattails, antler, and shotgun belong to hunting season itself, so the shirt works on November blind mornings and January cabin weekends as easily as it does around the tree. Only the Santa hat and the wrapped gifts mark it as a Christmas piece.

On tree morning, the green plaid scarf in the print may well match the one your own Lab is wearing.