Gifts for Pet Parents

Gift ideas for dog and cat people — the practical things they need, the sentimental ones they'd never buy, and how to get a photo worth turning into a portrait.

Pet people are the easiest group to buy for and the easiest to get wrong. Easy, because the subject is obvious. Wrong, because they already own eleven squeaky toys.

The gifts that land are either genuinely practical — the hair remover they resent buying — or genuinely sentimental, like a portrait of the animal itself. These guides cover both.