Adorable Pet Holiday Photos To Warm Your Heart This Season

ACROSS ILLINOIS --- As every pet owner knows, there's nothing a pet loves more than putting on a Santa hat, donning a pair of antlers, or squeezing into a festive sweater and posing for holiday pics. Patch recently asked readers to send holiday photos of their four-legged friends and the result was a veritable deluge of red and green photos sent by proud pet parents. In all, we got nearly 200 entries. Here's a look at some of our favorites (hint: they were all our favorites; we're pet lovers too!)

This next collage even features the Oak Brook police chief's Bernedoodle!

Is it even legal to have this much cuteness in one article?

Are you smiling yet? We're pretty sure you're smiling by now. There's no way you're not smiling.

These holiday pets are certified heart melters. We're pretty sure they're all on the "nice" list, right?

There are still more holiday pets to behold. It's almost too much to bear.

Thanks to all the Patch readers who shared images of their pets, the most cherished gifts of every season!

Adorable images via Patch readers across Illinois