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A squeaky toy gets forgotten by the following week. Painted portraits, personalised ceramics and proper photoshoots get kept, framed and shown off. This category covers the gifts pet owners actually hang onto: a portrait of the dog, a bowl glazed with the cat's name, or a shoot worth printing. Good for the dog lover in the family, or anyone whose pet has its own seat at the table.
It doesn't need to be a special occasion to get a gift for your pet. Whether that's a paint-your-pet class, a pet photoshoot, or a ceramic workshop at locations across Australia, RedBalloon has you and your furry friend covered. Nothing here is a toy or a treat, and being honest, the gift is as much for the owner as for the pet.
The Paint Your Pet and Sip Class in Melbourne is a popular choice: send a photo of the pet ahead of time, the artists pre-sketch it onto a 30x40cm canvas, and the class itself is bring-your-own drinks and nibbles while an instructor talks you through the rest. For something less DIY, the Pet Photography Shoot with $200 towards Artwork starts with a design consultation, covers a two-hour shoot around Melbourne metro, and comes with $200 credit to put towards whichever image gets chosen afterwards. The Pet Photoshoot with Prints is a one-hour session, indoor or outdoor, that comes home with a 16x20 inch print and two 8x12 inch prints included.
The Perth Paint Your Pet Class for Beginners runs for three hours in a river-view studio with artist Louise Farnay, who's been painting and teaching for 30 years. No painting background is needed. Nibbles, tea, coffee and soft drinks are included alongside the canvas and paint.
The Ceramic Pet Bowl Workshop in Burleigh Heads runs for three hours and produces something the pet actually uses afterwards: one large bowl or two small ones, hand-built rather than thrown on a wheel, with firing and glazing arranged by the studio. Morning or afternoon tea is included. This is for someone who'd rather "make the thing" than commission it.
A gift voucher solves the obvious problem with this category: nobody can guess whether the dog lover in their life would rather paint, sit for a photoshoot or build a ceramic bowl, and in which city. A RedBalloon gift voucher lets them pick the pet experience themselves, still under the same idea: a gift about the pet rather than another thing for it to ignore. It works for Christmas, for a birthday, or for no reason beyond someone's pet having taken over their entire personality.
An experience built around the actual pet, not another toy or bag of treats. Think a paint-your-pet class in Melbourne or Perth, a ceramic pet bowl workshop on the Gold Coast, or a pet photoshoot in Melbourne. The Melbourne paint and sip session is a popular choice and as much a gift for the owner as the pet.
Yes. The paint-your-pet classes turn a photo of the actual pet into a canvas, the Gold Coast bowl-making workshop can be glazed with the pet's name, and the pet photoshoots come home with prints rather than digital files. All three are built around one specific animal rather than pets in general.
No prior painting experience is assumed at either the Melbourne or Perth sessions. In Melbourne, the artists pre-sketch the pet onto the canvas from a submitted photo before the class starts. In Perth, artist Louise Farnay guides beginners through the session directly, in a studio she's taught out of for years.
It depends on which one. The 60-minute Pet Photoshoot with Prints includes a photographer, a choice of indoor or outdoor setting, and one 16x20 inch print plus two 8x12 inch prints to take home. The two-hour Photography Shoot with $200 towards Artwork adds a design consultation up front and a $200 credit towards a chosen image afterwards, rather than fixed prints.
This page is gifts about a pet: something made from its photo or its likeness, given to the owner. Pet-friendly experiences are the opposite direction: outings and venues you can actually bring the pet along to. Worth checking if the gift should include the pet itself rather than just its portrait.
No. The paint-your-pet classes and both photoshoots are open to any pet- cats, rabbits, and anything else included, not just dogs. The ceramic bowl workshop is the one product here that's genuinely dog-and-cat practical, since it ends with something the pet eats or drinks out of.
For something the pet joins in on rather than just features in, outings that allow animals along cover a wider range of venues than this page does. Experiences for pets is also worth a look. And for a pet owner who'd rather receive a class than a product, art and craft classes cover the wider category the paint-your-pet and ceramic sessions both sit inside.