This Christmas gift guide is all about very important you! We share ten gifts a stylish, fun-loving dog lover would be happy to find under her tree. Hint, hint Mr Barkarama.

We’ve finally got our Christmas hat on so now that we’re feeling festive, we share the first of four gift guides for you and your furry ones. Kicking things off is our Christmas gift guide for your dog, with everything from tasty stocking fillers, to gifts for £25/£50/£100 or less, to luxe buys. Dig in!

Who needs to wait for Santa Paws’ arrival when organic dog food purveyor Lily’s Kitchen are serving up a daily, lip-smackingly-good treat come December 1. Yes that’s right our four-legged amigos, Lily’s Kitchen has launched an Advent Calendar exclusively for dogs. But hurry you’ve got less than a week to get your paws on one before you can let your chops loose onto its contents.

I’m a big fan of massage, and as I discovered when he was just a pup, so is Lord Basil. When he had his mad puppy moments, tearing around the house like the Tasmanian Devil, grabbing him for a DIY doggy massage was all I could do to get the crazy fool to calm down. I used to find it relaxed me too, and I really enjoyed the bond these Zen moments created between us.

Between winter lurgy, a crazy work schedule and a full diary, we’ve been in a blogging black hole. However, we’ve been pulled out of our writer’s block abyss by news of a stupendously exciting collaboration between Mulberry and one of our fave luxury pet outfitters Mungo & Maud, for a capsule collection of dog collars and leads. There is a ‘but’ though – poor Basil is beside himself that his invite to the Claridge’s canine modelling party got lost in the post, and that shock, horror, they had another Boston Terrier stand in!

We knew we were onto something with our For Her & For Fur feature, and it seems someone else agrees with our eagerness to go matchy matchy with your mutt! PETME love adoption has embraced the trend with their brand new collection of coordinated, handmade apparel for dogs and their owners. 

We’re having a kit-kat break! That’s right – the pussycats are back in the spotlight for our latest Cat-arama feature, where we share what’s been tickling the whiskers of Barkarama’s resident cats of late.

From a Howler-ween themed charity dog walk to a star-studded pawbiz gala dinner, October kick off Autumn with a barking start. Read on for the October Bark Agenda with dog-friendly events you could and SHOULD be going to this month.