We've searched stores, websites and more to handpick the best gifts for you and yours. Look below for pup-perfect surprises for your fur family, top picks to delight a dog person and great gifts for groomers, dog walkers and other pet people your dog would like to thank this holiday season. You just may find something to add to your own wish list too!
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Pup-Perfect Gifts for Dogs
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Bling in the Holiday Season
Deck your dog in the brilliant 22k gold of the holidays. Ultra-chic and shiny, each Letters of Fortune pet tag is individually handcrafted and personalized for your little darling. Choose from four colors and two sizes, plus see other snazzy options that offer more color choices or crystal accents.
Letters of Fortune Tag, $19 and $30
www.trixieandpeanut.com/tags |
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Hang by the Chimney with Care
Make sure Santa doesn’t forget your best friend this holiday. Save a spot for his pet stocking on the mantel. This red, paw-shaped velvety stocking comes ready to personalize with your dog’s name with a gold glitter pen included. Just like the human-version, with faux-fur trim and thick fabric, it’s ready for treats, toys and all the pet goodies on Santa’s sleigh.
Personalized Pet Stocking and Glitter Pen, $7.99 and $9.99
www.drsfostersmith.com/petstocking |
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Pamper the Pup
Thanks to the Happy Tails Hanukkah Hound and Santa Paws Collections, you can surprise your doggie friends with a fragrant spa surprise. Just the thing to add softness, scent and shine to holiday-weary pups, this set contains four two-ounce spa products including Fur Butter, Dog Smog Remedy and more.
Happy Tails Spa Set. Choose the Hanukkah Hound or Santa Paws Collection, $20
www.happytailsspa.com |
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A Dog's Life Treats
Celebrate your pup this season and help him create a special gift for his dog park pals — 100% natural hand-baked dog treats with his name, hometown and photo on the label. Simply upload your dog's photo, choose a flavor and in 1 to 2 weeks, you’ll receive bags of treats with your own custom label. Choose from five flavors or go with the sampler pack with 15 mini bags.
A Dog’s Life Treats, 2 bag minimum for custom orders, $24.95
www.adogslife.net |
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Go Haute In the Cold
Classic lines, cozy comfort, haute herringbone is so this season. Bundle your pup in this faux lambswool and fleece-lined coat adorned with designer buttons down the back. Complete with convenient leash opening and self-fastening neck and belly straps, it’s the garment of choice for discriminating dogs all winter long. Choose from Lilac or Gray with optional monogramming.
Herringbone Dog Coat, $12.99 - $24.99
www.drsfostersmith.com/coat
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Pass the Cookies, Please
Treat the dog-sitter, groomer or vet to a festive pet treat they’ll love to share with their clients. The ultimate holiday dog cookie exchange, this gorgeous candy-striped tube comes packed with four-dozen candy cane dog cookies.
Large Candy Cane Cookie Tube, $23.50
www.funstufffordogs.com/candycane |
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Hula through the Holidays
Say “Mahalo” to your little girl dog this holiday with the heavy-duty Combat® squeaky toy. Battle-tested to endure the most rigorous chompers, this machine-washable pink and white Hula Girl toy adds a ray of Hawaiian sunshine to your winter holidays.
Combat Hula Girl Dog Toy, $5.99
www.miaandmaggie.com/hula |
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Celebrate All Year Long
Forget Fruit of the Month clubs, the dog’s day has come. Order up a Dog Treat of the Month from Kool Dog Kafe. Send your best wishes with gourmet goodie deliveries arriving on the first or fifteenth of every month. Hailed as the best gourmet dog treats on the market, Kool Dog Kafe mixes up only the top ingredients from the same suppliers used in bakeries and restaurants. Surprise a doggie today with a gift that will last all year.
Dog Treat of the Month from Kool Dog Kafe
6 months at $21.99/month or 12 months at $19.99/month. Prices include shipping & handling.
www.kooldogkafe.com |
Must-Haves for Dog People
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Pick a Pup Purse
Give a little nod to the pet of their dreams with charming dog breed coin purses from J.P. Ourse. Made to last with intricate leather detailing, full lining and a sweet bone-shaped pull, it’s just the thing for the dog person on your list.
Dog Breed Coin Purses from J.P. Ourse, $22
www.jpourse.com/coinpurse
Other great gifts – key fobs, wallets and more. |
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Cozy Up to Pup Jammies
Snuggly pajamas are a holiday hit. Lavish your loved ones with Gap sleepwear that’s almost as cute as your dog. With embroidered Weiner and Scottie dog pants or a whole set with pants adorned with Jack Russell pups, options abound for pup-perfect gifts.
Gap Embroidered Doggy Pajamas, $25.99 (just reduced) for pj pants, $39.50 for the set www.gap.com/pjs, |
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Put it on the Dog’s Card
Give them what they really want, the gift of cash from their best friend. Personalize a Visa Gift Card from your dog complete with the pup’s photo and custom message to the recipient. A great gift for groomers, dog walkers and other pet people your dog would like to thank this holiday season.
Personalized VISA Gift Cards
Available in denominations from $5 to $500, plus an additional $6 per card
www.giftcards.com |
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Get a To-Go Bag
Finally, the Pillow Pillow Tote Bags your friends love are ready to hit the road. The latest line of lovable dog bags are now just the right size for groceries, books, games and snacks all in 100% organic cotton. Have a Pillow Pillow fan on your list? Wrap up a favorite pup bag just in time for the holidays.
Pillow Pillow Tote Bags, $56.50
www.pillowpillowpillowshop.com/totes |
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Get on the Soapbox
Celebrate the love of the pup with specialty soaps for the top breeds your friends’ love. Beautifully designed and fragrant with natural botanical extracts, each dog breed soap arrives nestled in iridescent tissues in a letter-pressed gift-box and trimmed with ribbons. Delight a dog person with a soap rendition of their best friend. Choose from Dachshund, Pug, Scottie, Maltese, Westie and Labrador Retriever breed soaps.
Dog Breed Soaps, $20
www.uncommongoods.com/dogsoaps |
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Frame the Fuzz
Celebrate your dog’s good looks with a frame that sets off his fur. Just visit sendaframe.com to try out his photo in hundreds of gorgeous frames. Once you’ve made your selection, choose to upload a digital photo and even engrave the frame so it’s personalized then sent directly to friends and family this holiday, fuzzy mug shot included.
Send-a-Frame, prices vary
www.sendaframe.com |
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Tie One On
Splurge for the smooth silk of a Ferragamo tie, this one in a classic dog pattern for your most stylish dog person. Made in Italy and available in red or navy blue.
Salvatore Ferragamo Dog Tie, $160
www.saksfifthavenue.com/dogtie |
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Give In to the Pin
Positively charming in hand-painted French enamel, these Erwin Pearl dog breed pins make a statement of taste and style. Send one with a message from your pup to theirs. With 50 breeds to choose from and some breed key chain available too, you’re sure to find the one they’ll love.
Erwin Pearl Pins, Adorable Pooches Collection, $92 - $115
www.erwinpearl.com |
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Serve Dessert in the Doghouse
Baked for both people and their pups, this charming organic gingerbread house makes a great holiday display and edible gift. It’s tasty for the pet people in your life and with a wheat-free peanut butter biscuit roof to make a dog’s day. This treat is baked to order and personalized with your dog’s name, but order soon from this Northern California ‘barkery’ to ensure holiday delivery.
The Gingerbread Doghouse, $65
www.good-doggie.com |
Charitable Gifts for the Love of Dogs
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Give the Gift of Change
Skip the silly gift this season and put your money to work for animals in need. The non-profit ChangingThePresent.org makes it easy with donation gift options earmarked for the charities your friends value most. So instead of just making a $50 donation in your friends’ name, you can give $50 to the ASPCA for two pet micro-chippings. Check out the full-range of inspiring gifts from hundreds of charities.
www.changingthepresent.org |
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Support Animal Rescue and Shelter Shops
Shop for the love of pets at your neighborhood animal rescue and shelter shops this season. With proceeds supporting the animals in their care, it’s extra incentive to score these top picks for pups and their people. Here’s just a sampling of our finds.
Wrap up a gray fleece vest, sporty baseball cap or a black hoodie all with the SF/SPCA patch at the San Francisco SPCA Store.
www.sfspca.org |
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Support Golden Gate Basset Hound Rescue with cozy fleece dog coats in a wide variety of fabrics. Adorable and adjustable, these sweet pup coats are as easy on the wallet as they are to take on and off.
www.ggbassetrescue.org |
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Feed the shelter pups with any purchase from the Animal Rescue Site Store. Save time and do most of your holiday shopping online at one site, each item you buy supports food supplies for shelter animals at no extra cost to you.
www.theanimalrescuesite.com
Make Pet Dreams Come True
Share your love of dogs with your friends and family this holiday. Give the gift of membership to a local SPCA or sponsor a needy animal in a friend’s name. Even give a gift to a pet charity from your dog to theirs. It’s so easy and means so much to the people you honor with these heartfelt gifts. |
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Jolly Octopus...Eight Colorful Legs To Tug!
Spoil a dog friend with “A Cheerful Pet” one-of-a-kind handmade Octopus toy and support women’s charities around the world. Your purchase directly supports the Nepali women who make these toys, enabling them to provide for their families and enjoy an enriched quality of life.
Learn more at www.acheerfulpet.com and they’re available at www.planetbluedog.com |
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The Vicktory Dog Wine Collection
Lend a paw to rehabilitate the dogs involved in the Michael Vick dog fighting tragedy. Send a bottle of Carivintas Winery’s, Vicktory Dog Wine Collection to friends this holiday. Each bottle is labeled with a work of art portraying one of 22 dogs rescued dogs. Ten percent of Vicktory wine sales supports the rescued dogs in their new home at the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah.
www.dogloverswineclub.com |
Doggie Delights Under $20
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Send a Slurpabowl
Surprise a pup person this holiday with a lighter load. Wrap up this snazzy six-pack of lightweight, portable dog bowls with nifty leash attachments. Colorful and cool, just pop it open to fill it up. Complete with smiling dog image (that might just be contagious).
Slurpabowls $9.99 per package of six
www.containerstore.com/slurpabowls |
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Let Them Eat Pupcake
Pamper a pet you love with a surprise delivery of cupcake mix just for him. All you add are two eggs, water and your best wishes for your baking to come out right. Send this kit complete with a natural mix of peanut butter chip flavor, yogurt frosting, miniature hand-piped yogurt bone decorations, and baking & decorating instructions. Arriving in a beautiful gift box with holiday greeting and satin bow, it’s a doggie’s holiday dream come true.
Seasonal Cupcake Mix for Dogs, $9.99
www.petitfourlegs.com |
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Read the Book of Love
For all those dog people on your list who just wish their dogs could talk, here’s a little something from you this holiday. Wrap up For the Love of a Dog: Understanding Emotion in You and Your Best Friend by Patricia McConnell and send it off.
This animal behaviorist, dog trainer, syndicated radio talk show host and prolific author on all things canine, McConnell breaks down “the language” dogs use to recognize signals from their people. Through compelling stories and science, the author offers insights into understanding and communicating with your best friend.
For the Love of a Dog, by Patricia McConnell, $10.85
www.amazon.com/loveofadog
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Fill Up the Fun
It’s the top stocking stuffer on your dog’s list. The TreatStik keeps winter dogs busy with hours of stimulating play. Just fill it up with treats and let it roll. With slower treat dispensing than other toys, the good times keep coming for your doggie friends while their people are doing the holiday shuffle.
TreatStik, $12.99 and $15.99
www. treatstik.com |
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Call in the Bad Dogs
For the dog person who can’t bear another cutesy puppy calendar comes this hilarious adaptation from the The New York Times bestselling book, Bad Dog. With a motley pup for each day of the year, this brilliant gift showcases the slobbery, the spoiled, the smelly and all the Bad Dog Warning Signs. Give it, get it, love it.
Bad Dog 2009 Calendar: 365 Outspoken, Indecent, and Overdressed Dogs, $9.59
www.amazon.com/baddog |
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Spice Up Pocker Night
All it takes is a Pack of Dogs Playing Cards. Sure, it looks like a standard deck of cards until your flip through and see a shaggy dog leaving muddy paw prints across a floor, or a determined Jack Russell digging for a bone. One part flip book, one part card deck, the work of artist John Little features your breed of choice in a gift that’s all aces.
Pack of Dogs Playing Cards, $9.50
www.inky-dinky.com |
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Bark If You Love Scrapbooking!
Perfect for new pup parents or friends of old, the dog scrapbook captures the human/dog bond in photos and memory. Celebrate a special pup relationship for years to come when you start your own pet project this holiday season. This one-of-a-kind keepsake includes everything you need to create your dog’s tale. Awarded the National Center 2008 Seal of Approval, this puptastic surprise will be treasured for years to come.
My Dog Scrapbook Kit, $18
www.uncommongoods.com |
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Get Harry for Christmas
Show kids that even naughty dogs are always welcome home with the beloved classic children's story of Harry the Dirty Dog, by Gene Zion. The tale of one white dog that didn’t like to bathe, Harry sets out on an adventure that leaves him dirtier than ever and begging for a bath. Share this heartwarming tale with the little rebels around the tree this holiday.
Harry the Dirty Dog, written by Gene Zion, $11.55
www.amazon.com/harry |
For the Feline Friends
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Mug for the Crowd
An adorable gift for officemates with a love of coffee and cats, this cool kitty mug isn’t apparent until it’s brought to the lips to sip. Then, the kitty nose and mouth go bottoms up revealing a hilarious cat face just for laughs.
Kitty Mug, $17.50
www.paper-source.com |
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Feast on the Treats
Only a true cat lover could create such a decadent feline treat. Spoil your kitty friends this holiday with Cat-Man-Doo Dried Bonito Flakes stuffed in her little stockings. Cats go crazy over this fishy snack available at many pet boutiques.
Cat-Man-Doo Bonito Flakes Cat Treat, $7.49
www.amazon.com/Cat-Man-Doo |
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A Desk of One’s Own
There’s no better gift than the Kitt-In Box for cat owners who work at home. Kitty gets his own cozy spot to snooze, just out of keyboard’s way, but close enough still for a good tummy or under the chin rub. Attach the Kitt-In Box to the side of a desk or place on top it – either way, cats purr over the soft cushion and the high walls, which are perfect for nesting.
The Kitt-In Box, $29.99
www.therefinedfeline.com |
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Snuggle in Style
The ultimate meditation sack for enlightened felines, the Buddhabag Cat Bed lets cats slumber and snuggle in style. Made of premium quality, plush faux fur and available in six rich colors, each comes complete with it own "buddHaiku."
Buddhabag Cat Bed , $58
www.buddhabag.net
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Shake your Tail Feathers
The Showgulls gets kitty cats in the mood to move with their irresistible shimmy shimmy feathers and catnip whiff. Order up a few for the kitties on your holiday list for Christmas morning glee.
Kitty Hoots ShowGulls, $3.19
www.cattoys.com
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