Holiday & Christmas Pet Bowls

Safe & Healthy Holiday Treats for Your Dog & Cat This Season

Discover festive and safe holiday treats for your dogs and cats, with ideas to make the season extra special for your furry friends.

Updated on October 23rd, 2025

Best Pet Stocking Stuffers: Holiday Gifts for Your Furry Friend

Get you pet involved in the holiday festivities with their own stocking stuffed with a few of these pet gift ideas.

Updated on October 23rd, 2025

Petco Holiday Gifts: Treat Your Pet to Creative & Affordable Fun

Petco's, Jenny Wolski, shares insights on crafting the ideal holiday gifting experience for pets. Discover how creativity, affordability, and unique touches come together in Petco's Merry Makings collection to bring festive joy to pets and their families.

Updated on October 23rd, 2025

Keep Pets Safe: Holiday Decorating Tips for a Pet-Proof Home

Before you bust out the decorations know what precautions to take. You’ll learn if poinsettias are poisonous to cats, which foods to stay away from, and more!

Updated on October 23rd, 2025

Top 10 Best Holiday Dog Gifts: Treats & Toys Your Pup Will Adore!

Choosing the perfect gift for family and friends can often be a challenge. Fortunately, ‘fetching’ the perfect holiday treats and toys for your pup can be just as fun as your average game of, well...

Updated on October 23rd, 2025

What's the best dog bowl material for health, safety, and cleanliness?

Hello, and thanks for your question on Boop by Petco. It's great that you're being conscientious about this! I recommend ceramic, glass, or stainless steel bowls. They tend to be cleaner, and are safe to throw in a dishwasher cycle now and then. I'd specifically avoid plastic. Hope that helps!

Why is tinsel harmful to cats? What holiday decor is unsafe?

Cats and holiday decorations don’t always mix well. As curious animals, cats tend to explore any new additions to their environment and see many of these shiny, new objects as fun toys. Tinsel is the ultimate shiny object for a cat to play with, which often ends with subsequent ingestion. If ingested, tinsel poses a serious risk of causing an intestinal blockage, also known as a linear foreign body obstruction. This life-threatening surgical emergency can easily be avoided by keeping tinsel out of homes with cats. Other holiday decorations can pose problems to particularly curious cats, such as strings of lights that some cats may try to chew, decorative ornaments or snow globes that look like toys to bat around, or poisonous plants, such as mistletoe or poinsettias. When decorating for the holidays, try to look at your house from your cat’s point of view and keep decorations that look like enticing toys packed away.

Wet or dry food for dogs and cats? Are spaniel bowls good for long ears?

You are very welcome. In dogs we don't see this issue so much with water intake. Cats are usually always problematic to get adequate water into their system. Therefore your dog can have either wet or dry based on preference of the pet and yourself. I feel that giving half dry and half wet to cats is certainly better than no wet at all. Plus I can certainly understand that this may be more a cost effective way to care for your pet. If you also implement the placement of water fountains in your home, then this has shown to encourage cats to drink more because it is considered a fresher water source. I honestly have never heard of the special bowls made just for spaniels. That is a great idea and as long as your pets drink from it, then I say mission accomplished! It is, after all, still just a water fountain. I can certainly understand not wanting to continue to use a fountain which gets a daily dip from your pets ears. This certainly isn't the most sanitary way to get your d

My cat keeps drinking Christmas tree water. Is it safe for them?

Thanks for using Boop by Petco! I would recommend not allowing the cats to drink from the tree stand; if the tree was sprayed or treated with anything while at the tree farm, it could leak into the water that they are drinking. I would gate off the tree, or cover the top of the stand with aluminum foil. Good luck!

How to create a budget-friendly cat room setup for cats and a dog?

Hi, in terms of cat furniture don’t worry cats don’t need anything particularly fancy. They enjoy sitting on a shelf as in the picture and look outside the window. You would add some cardboard boxes that can also work as cratching posts and a couple of pillow on the bookshelf. I think the feeding area would better be moved, because being right in front of the windows is exposed, they can see/be seen and could spot something that might upset them. It is also advisable to keep feeding areas away from their litter tray and perhaps moving it would help increasing this distance. Are there only two cats in the room ? If so also consider the number of litter trays. I mo not sure how many you have at present, and if things work out well I probably would suggest not to change them. You can find lots of ideas in building/creating cat furniture from ikea furniture if you fancy a change in the future. Also cats will need to be active and interact with you so make sure you consider this in your rou