Dog guide

Buying guides for UK dog owners.

Guides that tell you what to buy, what to skip, and why so much of it goes back.

Puppy

Dog crates: a UK buying guide

Size it for the adult dog, use a divider, and put it where the family actually sits. The four crate types and who each one is for.

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Home and Comfort

Dog beds: a UK buying guide

Watch how your dog sleeps before you buy anything. Sleeping position tells you the shape, and the filling is what you are actually paying for.

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Walks and Travel

Dog harnesses: a UK buying guide

A harness will not stop your dog pulling. What it will do is make pulling safer while you train. Front-clip, back-clip, and how to fit one properly.

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Walks and Travel

Dog car travel: seat covers, restraints and the law

Rule 57, why most car harnesses have never been crash tested, and what your insurer can do if your dog was loose in the car.

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Walks and Travel

Dog coats and raincoats: a UK buying guide

Most dogs do not need a coat. Here is how to tell whether yours is one of the ones that genuinely benefits, and what to buy if it is.

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Puppy

Dog gates and playpens: a UK buying guide

Pressure-fit gates must never go at the top of stairs. Pen sizing, gate height, and how confinement makes the first six months easier.

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Grooming and Care

Dog grooming brushes: a UK buying guide

The brush aisle is designed to confuse you. Work out which of the five coat types your dog has and the choice narrows to two tools.

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Feeding and Enrichment

Slow feeders and lick mats: a UK buying guide

Four different products get sold as the same thing. They solve four different problems, and buying the wrong one is why most of them end up in a cupboard.

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Walks and Travel

Dog travel water bowls: a UK buying guide

The bowl you leave at home is not a bowl. Everything about choosing one comes down to whether it actually gets carried.

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Home and Comfort

The anxious dog kit: 20 things that actually help

Most of what gets sold as calming is sold to the owner, not the dog. Twenty things that genuinely help, grouped by the situation that sets him off.

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About us

Made for dogs. Designed for the people who live with them.

Life with a dog is muddy paws, early mornings, wet coats drying over a radiator and a great deal of hair. We make products for that version of dog ownership rather than the one in the catalogue.

The range launches with grooming, feeding and travel essentials. Everything else on this site exists to help you choose well, whether you buy from us or not.

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A dog and owner together outdoors
Launching autumn

Four products, coming to Amazon UK.

Being manufactured now. Nothing is for sale on this website, and we do not take orders here.

Deshedding brush

Deshedding brush

Removes loose undercoat without pulling. Stainless steel edge, release button, contoured handle.

Launching autumn
Silicone lick mat

Silicone lick mat

Slows feeding and settles dogs before crate time or a car journey. Silicone, dishwasher safe.

Launching autumn
Foldable travel bowl

Foldable travel bowl

Collapses flat and clips to a lead or bag. 650ml, moulded in one piece from TPE.

Launching autumn
Dog poo bags, 300

Dog poo bags, 300

300 bags in 20 rolls of 15. Wide enough to tie, with a clean tear off the roll. Lavender scented.

Launching autumn

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What to buy before they come home, what can wait, and the things almost everyone wastes money on. We will email you the PDF and add you to our newsletter. One click to leave, whenever you like.

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