Gifts for Pet People Under $60

The dog already owns more toys than the kids, and anybody who has watched a squeaker lose a war in ninety seconds knows the problem: most gifts for pet people are the third one on the pile. There is also only so much shelf a household can give to things that chew.

So this list is the short version of what changes a routine instead of adding to it: a LickiMat that turns dinner into a twenty-minute licking session, a Nina Ottosson puzzle with four difficulty levels that hands back thirty quiet minutes, and a FURminator that pulls up to 90 percent of the loose undercoat before it becomes your sweater. Seven finds, every one under $30, all real products you can search by name.