Looking for a holiday gift idea for your pet or that person in your life that loves their pet more than life itself? We’ve come up with some great suggestions for all budgets below:
Travel-tainer Pet Food Container $10
The TRAVEL-tainer keeps your pet food fresh, in an easy carry, airtight, food grade plastic container. Just remove the carry handle and pull off the food/water dishes. Twist off top and pour! Perfect for quick trips!
Purchase a Travel-tainer over at Amazon for about $10
Holiday Doggie Babble Ball – $8.99
The Holiday Doggie Babble Ball is an interactive toy that talks to your pet when touched. The improved technology is so sensitive it can be triggered by a pet breathing on it, or just by the vibration of a pet walking past it. When play is finished, the Holiday Doggie Babble Ball turns off automatically and waits to be touched again. Pets think it’s actually alive! Durable high impact ABS construction. Includes replaceable batteries. Also available in non-holiday versions.
Get your pooch a Holiday Doggie Babble Ball for $8.99 at Amazon
It takes patience, skill and practice to actually get a boomerang to come back to you… or in this case, just a dutiful dog who wants to play fetch! Great fun for both dog and owner.
The Wooferang is available at Amazon
Critter cruiser is an exciting pet powered exercise car for hamsters and gerbils. Critter cruiser’s adjustable racing wheel allows for the car to work in three different ways. First, when the comfort wheel is in the top position, exercising critters spin the wheel and the critter cruiser remains stationary. Interactive fun begins by adjusting the comfort wheel into the middle position. In the middle position, you can watch your pet turn the wheel and roll their critter cruiser on any flat surface. By adjusting the comfort wheel to the lowest position, the critter cruiser will work directly on super pet’s hamtrac. Critter cruisers are available in four fun colors.
Buy the Critter Cruiser and hamtrac at Amazon
R2 Fish School Complete Fish Training Kit $27.99
The R2 Fish School is a complete fish training system for teaching your fish to do amazing tricks. The tricks include doing the limbo, fetching, swimming through a tunnel, swimming the slalom, shooting baskets and swimming through a hoop. These tricks, developed with a common Goldfish named Comet, use operant conditioning positive reinforcement techniques to teach your fish. Fish training is educational, fun and a great fulfilling way to interact with your pet fish. This is not a joke. This product and Comet have been featured on TV and in many newspaper articles throughout the United States and Europe.
R2 Fish School Complete Fish Training Kit is at Amazon for $27.99
Just fill the Paw Plunger with warm water, insert a paw, then move the paw cleaner up and down. The soft bristles inside the Paw Plunger will knock off clumps of mud and grass, remove road salt or pesticides, and leave your dog’s paws dirt-free and safe for your furniture. The paw cleaner’s plastic spill-resistant design makes cleanup easy. You can also use the Paw Plunger for medicinal soaks, or to melt the ice balls that get trapped in your dog’s paws after a walk in the snow. The Paw Plunger is recommended for dogs 20-80 lbs.
Buy the Paw Plunger at Amazon for $29.99
This amusing and engaging toy preys on a feline’s natural hunting instincts, recreating the unpredictable, herky-jerky movements of a flittering butterfly. The unit’s electronic motor spins a furry lure, reversing its direction at random to keep a pouncing predator off balance. The toy’s removable plastic wand bends when the lure is swatted or captured, then returns to its original shape. A knob on the base controls the lure’s speed and a built-in timer (15-120 minutes in 15-minute increments) shuts the toy off automatically to conserve batteries and a feline’s patience. Rubber feet protect floors and fold-out stabilizers keep the toy from tipping during boisterous feline attacks. Includes a spare lure.
Get the Cavorting Cat Toy for your kitty at Hammacher for $29.95.
Have you always secretly suspected that you have the brainiest pooch on the block? Well now you can find out with the Pooch IQ Kit for dogs! Just how smart is your pooch compared to the rest? Use this IQ kit to find out! This booklet and the included props and toys make it easy to test the intelligence of your dog. Built on sound scientific principles, the Pooch IQ Kit includes a booklet with 15 exercises both you and your pet will enjoy. All the toys you need to complete the exercises are included with the kit (5 dog toys + 2 props)! Plus, you’ll get an easy-to-use scoring key so you can instantly find out your pooch’s IQ and what it means.
Pick up a Pooch IQ Kit at Amazon for $39.99
This kit analyzes your dog’s DNA and identifies the breeds in its ancestry. It provides scientific confirmation of the physical characteristics, behavioral tendencies, personality traits, and potential health risks your mixed-breed dog has inherited. A professional laboratory tests a cotton swab that you simply rub against the inside of your dog’s cheek and send to the lab in the provided envelope. The laboratory compares the unique sequences in your canine’s genome with DNA markers from a database of thousands of purebred dogs. The DNA test recognizes 63 different breeds (93% of the most common breeds in the U.S.) that can make up your pet’s genetic profile. You will receive a certificate listing your dog’s ancestry and a detailed explanation of each breed’s dominant characteristics that likely have been passed on to your dog.
The Canine Genealogy Kit is available at Skymall for $59.95
Automatic Canine Fetch Machine – $149.95
This award-winning toy keeps an energetic dog chasing tennis balls long after his human playmate tires, or even lets him play fetch all by himself. The machine can be set to launch balls automatically or when a button on the remote control is pressed. You can adjust the distance (15′ to 30′) and interval (seven to 15 seconds) in which balls are launched, and if a dog is trained to drop a tennis ball into the machine, he can play indefinitely on his own. The machine’s rugged plastic hopper has a 17-ball capacity and handles for easy transport. Includes six tennis balls and training tips. The launcher plugs into AC or runs on six D batteries that provide five hours of operation.
Buy the Automatic Canine Fetch Machine at Amazon for $149.95
Garmin Astro GPS Dog Tracking System – $499
Garmin Astro Combo Unit GPS Based Dog Tracking System is the ultimate solution for the hunter who has spent many wasted hours searching for his dogs. There are two components: a handheld receiver /Astro 220/ and a dog collar transmitter /DC 20/ that relays the dog’s position to the Astro 220. It is mounted in the included, lightweight neoprene harness. Astro can track up to ten dogs at once and has the ability to update the dogs position every 5 seconds. In flat, unobstructed terrain, the Astro system can reach up to 5 miles. For your outdoor adventures without your dog the Astro 220 serves as a full featured handheld GPS unit. It contains top notch features such as a high sensitivity GPS receiver, long battery life, a bright sunlight readable color display and a rugged IPX7 waterproof exterior. The Astro 220 has a slot for micro SD cards with detailed maps such as TOPO, Inland Lakes, BlueChart and City Navigator.
Buy the Garmin Astro GPS Dog Tracking System at Amazon for $499
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The babble balls are great fun – I hadn’t seen the holiday version but have one that talks and it amuses the dogs and the humans no end – I left it on the desk when my cleaning lady was coming – knowing that they would move it to dust.
I think books also make great gifts and one of my favorite new books is Speaking for Spot: Be the Advocate Your Dog Needs to Live a Happy, Healthy, Longer Life by Dr. Nancy Kay (www.speakingforspot.com) – talk about empowering owners to navigate the field of veterinary medicine – this book does it in spades.
Critter cruiser makes me wish i had a critter!
A great idea for a gift for your special dog is a Kabbalah Red String Bring some peace, tranquility and spirituality into your dogs life