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Jillian Lynch will never forget the moment her dog ruined her family’s Christmas cards.
But it’s not what her dog, Boss, did to the photo. It’s what he did in the photo.
The photo, which featured her three kids — Kennedy, 11, Danny 10, and Macie, 8 — hugging the family dog, came out perfect… until she realized one small issue with it.
Boss was aroused — and his “red rocket” was on display for all to see.
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Lynch, a family photographer from Massachusetts, wasn’t too worried about her dog’s excitement. After all, the photo was fixed with some minor online editing.
But when she went to order the Christmas cards, she accidentally sent the unedited version.
And she didn’t find out until the cards were already in envelopes ready to send to family and friends.
“I thought you edited out his red rocket,” Lynch’s husband wrote in a text message while she was grocery shopping at Trader Joe’s.
What followed was a string of texts from Lynch as the panic settled in.
“Noooooooooo. Omg no,” she replied. “All of them?”
Luckily, Lynch is a professional and it didn’t take long for her to think up a solution.
“I’m going to have to put a sticker over that,” she added in a text message moments later. “Can not believe I missed that. I just ordered stickers.”
In a video posted to her Instagram account, Lynch can be seen placing a snowflake sticker over her dog’s “red rocket” — effectively covering up Boss’s mishap.
“This is what happens when you rush through making holiday cards,” she wrote in a text overlay.
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In an interview with TODAY.com, Lynch blamed her Christmas card fail on the busy season she had as a family photographer.
“They’re my priority,” she told the outlet of the 90 family photos she took and edited for the holidays. “I’m just cranking out photos of families left and right and my own card is just an afterthought.”
"My soul left my body," she said of the mistake. "The room started shaking. I was like, 'There's no way I did this.'"
As her story went viral on social media, it became clear that Lynch wasn’t the only one.
“Omg this happened to me in the 90s. My dog was a black poodle and I didn’t notice till I received my order. In my case, a black sharpie did the trick,” one user wrote in the comment section.
“My 3 year old was flipping the bird in one of our cards and I had no idea until someone pointed it out,” another user commented of their family Christmas photos.
“I spelled my last name wrong one year. In my defense, I finished them at 3am to make the shipping cutoff… it was a rough night,” a third person added.
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In Lynch’s case, she did find a way to poke fun at her mishap. "May your holiday season rise to the occasion,” she wrote in a text overlay in her video.
