Treat your furry friends this Christmas with our roundup of the very best gifts, from turkey-flavoured goodies to plush beds and paw-some presents
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Best Christmas 2025 gifts for pets(Image: Mirror)
With only five Fridays until Christmas, it’s officially that time to get started on your festive shopping (if you haven’t already done so), and someone who shouldn’t be ignored is our four-legged friends.
After all, Christmas is all about treating the ones we love most, and that includes our furry pets. From turkey-flavoured cat treats to plush pet beds and even a tartan coat, we’ve rounded up a whole selection of buys that will definitely get those tails wagging.
Whether shopping for a pampered pooch or a spoilt cat, these thoughtful finds promise to keep them comfy, full, and very much part of the Christmas celebrations…
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Aesop Animal Body Wash at LookFantastic
Shop it for £31
Give your pet the spa treatment this Christmas with Aesop’s gentle yet luxurious Animal Body Wash. Infused with lemon rind, tea tree leaf and spearmint, it leaves coats soft, fresh and subtly scented.
Dock & Bay Dog Towel
Shop it for £27
Drying off on a winter walk or even a summer beach day just got a little bit chicer. This quick-drying, sand-resistant microfibre towel soaks up moisture in seconds and folds neatly into any bag for on-the-go adventures.
Damson Madder Stripe Pet Bed
Shop it for £65
For pets who want to nap in style, this striped Damson Madder bed is the perfect addition to any living room or bedroom. With soft padidng and a fun striped pattern, it’s both comfy and a stylish addition to the home.
Lily’s Kitchen Festive Treats with Turkey for Cats
Shop it for £2.50
Even the fussiest cats will be after these Christmas turkey bites from Lily’s Kitchen. Made with proper meat and real ingredients, they’re the perfect seasonal indulgent treat for your furry friend.
Oliver Bonas Pink & Burgundy Diamond Poop Bag Holder
Shop it for £8.50
Who said walkies can’t be stylish? This diamond-patterned poop bag holder from Oliver Bonas turns a daily essential into a fashionable statement.
Riley Reindeer Rope Ball Plush Christmas Dog Toy at B&Q
Shop it for £7
If you’ve got a dog who destroys everything, this sturdy rope toy combines playtime and durability. Perfect for tugging and fetching, this will keep your pup occupied all winter long.
Pooch & Mutt Roast Carrot & Parsnip Dental Sticks
Shop it for £3.99
These natural dental sticks help clean your dog’s teeth while treating them to a roast-inspired flavour they’ll adore. Let them enjoy their own Christmas dinner while you munch on yours.
Katie Price could be set for yet another image change with the former glamour model said to be working on a ‘wish list’ of procedures for the new year
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Katie Price could be set for more surgery(Image: Getty Images for The Cambridge Union)
Katie Price has admitted being addicted to surgery, and now a source tells NEW she’s got a wish-list of procedures in the run-up to Christmas. “She’ll have more surgery as soon as she can,” the insider says.
“As soon as she finishes one thing, she’s looking for the next. It’s like a conveyer belt. She has a list of what she wants, because she’s never happy.”
The source adds: “Katie sees surgery as a gift to herself. It’s a buzz, like a drug, but she can’t stop. She doesn’t give herself long to recover before she’s back out having more anaesthetic and more procedures.”
With just six weeks until Christmas, the mum-of-five could be under the knife again very soon – and our insider says she’s already planning a raft of procedures for 2026. Top of her wish-list is corrective work on her lips.
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Katie, 47, unveiled new fillers back in the summer, but had them dissolved earlier this month, saying in a TikTok video: “This is what I want because I can start fresh.”
Though it dramatically reduced the size of her pout, the source said: “She’s not happy with the scarring around her mouth. She feels it’s very obvious and doesn’t look right.”
After regular trips to surgeons in Turkey and Belgium, Katie is now thought to be contemplating a visit to South Korea, where V-line jaw reduction is all the rage. It involves reshaping the face to make it slimmer and more defined, while reducing the prominence of the chin.
“She has talked about it, and there’s a possibility she might go to South Korea where they’re doing more advanced surgeries,” continues the source. “She wants jaw shaving, and she’s got sagging skin at the bottom of her cheeks from losing a lot of weight, which is another thing she wants. And possibly she wants her nose done again because I don’t think she’s happy with that either.”
Other kinds of ‘tweakments’ taking off in countries like South Korea include limb lengthening, which involves surgically breaking and then extending the leg bones. Elsewhere, a new kind of breast implant called Motiva is gaining popularity too, offering a smoother surface and special silicone gel that mimics natural breast movement, while also being safer for patients.
“Anything that is hi-tech, new or revolutionary, Katie will want,” said the insider. “It wouldn’t surprise me if she has her other breast implants taken out, and different ones put back in. She scours Instagram, looking at people and what they’ve had done. She’s always searching for the next thing.”
Also on Katie’s wish-list is more work to follow up the Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) she had earlier this year. The procedure involves injecting filler into the buttocks to enhance their shape and make them rounder, and our source reveals, “I don’t think she likes the way her bum looks, even though she had it done. She treats her body like a car that has constant repairs and topping up.”
In May, she livestreamed herself on TikTok having 500ml of BBL filler injections, saying: “I’ve just had Endo laser and filler, I’m having it put in my bum. It will dissolve over time, but it can last up to two years.” She had two surgeons working on her with 50 needles of the filler, and she added to camera, “Teamwork makes the dream work.”
Katie’s surgical compulsion is said to be of increasing alarm to her family, with her eldest daughter Princess, 18, believed to be especially worried. Both she and her brother Junior, 20, are said to have begged their mum to stop going under the knife, but so far their pleas have had no impact. “Family members are very concerned,” adds our source. “They think she’s not well enough to have more surgery. And you’ve got to look at the surgeons doing this too. They should be saying, ‘That’s enough.’”
In the summer, Katie flew to Turkey with boyfriend JJ Slater, 32, to have her sixth facelift. Photos of her taken during the trip showed her face looking swollen and painful, while blood appeared to be oozing from her stitches. In 2024, she had what was thought to be her 17th boob job, and over the years she has had full body liposuction, brow and ‘fox eye’ lifts, tummy tucks and rhinoplasty. “I will never stop with this surgery,” she once said. “I want to be a Bratz doll. It’s my body and I do what I want to do. That’s how it should be, your body, your choice. The difference is I talk about it.”
Katie’s tiny frame is also a concern, and in September, she revealed she had been to see her GP over her shrinking size, saying, “The reason I’m going to the doctors is because I keep losing weight and I don’t know why. So that’s that.”
In May this year, Katie took part in a TikTok live, when a fan asked why she kept having surgery. She replied, “I think surgery stems from something from when I was younger, and me feeling I’m not validated or good enough. It must have started from there. But to be honest, I quite like having the surgery – it makes me look fresh.”
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With no sign of her quitting her habit, it seems further anxious times lie ahead for her loved ones. “She’ll keep going until she feels she looks perfect,” says our source. “But even then she probably won’t stop.”
Islam Makhachev out-classed Jack Della Maddalena in a five-round beat-down to claim a unanimous decision victory and win the UFC welterweight championship at Madison Square Garden, with Valentina Shevchenko retaining her flyweight title in the co-main event.
Makhachev made light of stepping up a weight class after relinquishing the lightweight crown to chase a new challenge, utterly dominating his Australian opponent for 25 minutes with his smothering grappling to claim his 16th UFC victory in a row on Saturday night.
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The 34-year-old softened up his 29-year-old adversary with calf kicks before launching a relentless wrestling attack and Della Maddalena had no answer, getting stuck on the mat dealing with submission threats under tremendous pressure for long periods.
“This is my plan. It’s not a secret, all my opponents know this, and nobody can stop it,” Makhachev said before calling for his first title defence to be at the proposed event on the White House lawn in 2026.
All three judges scored the contest 50-45 as Makhachev became the 11th fighter in UFC history to hold titles in two different weight classes.
Della Maddalena – who ended an 18-fight career win streak, that featured 14 finishes – walked out of the cage without conducting the traditional post-fight interview and lost his first title defence since he beat Belal Muhammad via unanimous decision in May to wrest away the welterweight championship.
In the co-headliner, Zhang Weili’s dream of joining the elite group of double-champions came up short as the wily Shevchenko out-pointed her in another dominant performance to retain the flyweight crown.
Shevchenko (26-4-1) won her 11th overall title fight once she swept the scorecards 50-45 against Zhang.
Shevchenko displayed her full array of skills, sniping at her Chinese opponent and hurting her with punishing kicks to the body, and taking her to the mat and controlling her whenever she felt in danger.
The fighter from Krygyzstan became the first female UFC fighter to record 60 career takedowns – and the fight indeed ended with Zhang on her back.
“I was preparing for this fight as the hardest challenge in my life,” Shevchenko said in the cage after her customary victory dance.
“This is what I call the art of martial arts. When they are here in front of me, they cannot do anything.”
Shevchenko, right, lands a big right hand on Zhang Weili during UFC 322 at Madison Square Garden [Ishika Samant/Getty Images via AFP]
The show went on without an appearance from President Donald Trump, a close friend of UFC CEO Dana White, who normally has a cage side seat for the tri-state area’s biggest events.
UFC fans at the Garden, though, did get a big fight well ahead of the main event when a massive brawl broke out near one of the tunnels used for fight entrances and spilled through the stands and near press row.
The stir – which involved MMA fighter Dillon Danis – had the crowd howling and caused a short delay to the start of the pay-per-view card as police and security tried to bust up the melee.
Fists continued to fly at a furious pace once UFC 322 truly got under way.
Carlos Alcaraz said Saturday that Jannik Sinner is the favourite to retain his ATP Finals title at home after the new world number one set up a blockbuster finale with his Italian rival in the prestigious season-ending tournament.
Alcaraz cruised past Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-2, 6-4 in Turin to set up the title match with Sinner all tennis fans wanted to see after a series of thrilling battles between the pair this year.
The Spaniard has had the better of his clashes with Sinner 10-5, and has won four of this season’s five meetings which have all come in the final of top-level tournaments.
Alcaraz triumphed in the finals of the US Open and Roland Garros, the latter after roaring back from two sets down and saving three match points, but lost the Wimbledon final to Sinner.
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And he believes that Sinner, a 7-5, 6-2 winner over Alex de Minaur earlier on Saturday, is favourite to lift the trophy on Sunday in front of his home fans.
“I mean, I’m the number one… and he’s playing the best on indoor court. We’re playing in front of his home crowd, so I would say he’s the favourite,” Alcaraz told reporters.
“Don’t want to believe it, but I would say he’s the favourite for tomorrow.”
Sunday’s final has extra spice due to Alcaraz pipping Sinner to the top spot in the men’s rankings at the end of 2025 and him contesting his 11th final of the season in front of a partisan Italian crowd.
“Well, I expect at least three or four people in the crowd cheering for me,” Alcaraz joked.
“Obviously, the people are going to be cheering for him but I will try to be really, really focused on my game and on the things that I have to do.”
Canada’s Auger-Aliassime is an indoor specialist, having won seven of his eight titles on indoor courts but even he could not handle Alcaraz who took control of the match by breaking serve in game four of the first set with a brilliant hooked volley.
Alcaraz breezed into a one-set lead with another break of serve and then completed his victory without much difficulty and without having to play his most spectacular tennis.
Sinner Awaits
Sinner has yet to drop a service game but will have a much tougher test against Alcaraz after the second seed racked up his 13th straight win over De Minaur.
“Honestly every matchup (with Alcaraz) is different. We saw it in Rome and Paris, even if it’s the same surface (clay), it can change,” said Sinner.
Sinner has won his last 18 sets played in Turin, and the four-time Grand Slam champion is on a 30-match winning streak on indoor hard courts.
The 24-year-old has not dropped a set at the ATP Finals since losing the 2023 final to Novak Djokovic, while De Minaur ends his year in a more upbeat mood than the one he had after losing to Lorenzo Musetti in the group stage.
De Minaur admitted that he had been in a “dark place” after that loss, which almost cost him a place in the last four, before he beat Taylor Fritz to set up Saturday’s clash with Sinner.
“I had a little shift in perspective. Of course, like, sitting here right now, I feel like I should have finished my Turin campaign having won two matches instead of one,” De Minaur told reporters.
De Minaur fought off two break points in the opening game of the semi-final but then failed to convert any of the three he carved out in Sinner’s first service game.
The Australian resisted again when Sinner threatened to break in the seventh and ninth games, but the second seed eventually struck the key blow at 5-5 and snatched the first set.
Chinese Coast Guard vessels have sailed through the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands amid rising tensions between the two countries over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments about Taiwan.
The China Coast Guard said in a statement on Sunday that it “conducted patrols” around the Senkaku Islands, which Beijing claims as its own and refers to as the Diaoyu Islands.
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“China Coast Guard vessel 1307 formation conducted patrols within the territorial waters of the Diaoyu Islands. This was a lawful patrol operation conducted by the China Coast Guard to uphold its rights and interests,” the statement said.
The deployment around the disputed islands comes as tensions rise in China over comments by the nationalist Takaichi, who suggested last week that Japan would respond militarily to a Chinese attack on the self-governed island of Taiwan.
China, which claims Taiwan as an integral part of its territory, responded angrily, with its consul general in Osaka stating that the “dirty head that sticks itself out must be cut off”.
That statement in turn prompted a formal diplomatic complaint from Tokyo.
China then summoned the Japanese ambassador and issued a travel warning on Friday advising its citizens to avoid travelling to Japan.
Three Chinese airlines said on Saturday that tickets to Japan could be refunded or changed for free.
Taiwan was once the redoubt of nationalist strongman Chiang Kai-shek, a close ally of the United States who fled to Taiwan after being defeated by communist forces on the Chinese mainland in 1949. But the island has since developed its own democratic culture and political system, and has chafed against threats of military action by Beijing.
Taiwanese authorities maintain that only the people of the island should decide their future, but Beijing has never ruled out the use of force to seize control of the territory.
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Conor Benn assured the boxing world earlier this week that things would be different this time.
Benn told us he could keep a handle on his emotions as he prepared for Saturday’s rematch with Chris Eubank Jr – the latest instalment of a family feud that began with their fathers 35 years ago.
It was hard to believe, considering how much of a charged individual he is, in and out of the ring. But as he dropped Eubank for the second time on the way to an emphatic, calculated win, Benn proved his doubters wrong.
“It’s been hard facing my first loss and coming back from adversity,” Benn said.
“As a man you go through things in life and don’t know why but you have to – facing your own demons each day.
“When I said I beat myself that night [in the first fight with Eubank in April], I meant it. My head wasn’t in the right place.”
Benn’s successful revenge bid is the latest piece of adversity he has had to overcome.
He is no stranger to dragging himself through tough times.
The fighting son of one of the most famous boxers in British history, told by his school he was possessed by demons aged 12, at the centre of a two-year doping scandal and suffering defeat at the hands of the son of his father’s arch nemesis – Benn has dragged himself away from the brink over and and over again.
“I feel like I’m going to go home and cry,” he told a packed media room.
“A calm Conor is a better Conor.
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Saturday’s event was promoted as “unfinished business”, but in the build-up it did not feel like that really rang true – there was no contention over the result of the first contest.
Maybe it was harking back to the rivalry between their fathers, who fought a controversial draw in their second and final meeting in 1993.
It was a feud that gripped the British public but felt unsettled.
The scars of that fight still haunt Benn’s father Nigel and at the post-fight news conference he was dragged right back into that mindset.
“He [Eubank Sr] just loves the limelight, he doesn’t care about his son, ” Nigel Benn said.
“I don’t think I’ll ever speak to him again. He tries to quote scripture but he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”
As Nigel was growing more and more animated, his son began to laugh and could possibly picture himself speaking about Eubank Jr in three decades.
Despite still holding a grudge, it did feel like Nigel was able to gain some closure on the feud through his son.
“I don’t know if Conor knows but this is my last training camp,” he added.
“I won’t be doing this any more. I have three lovely kids in Australia that need me. I have a lovely wife that needs me.”
The sons were never meant to fight. Eubank Jr is seven years older, and Conor Benn has operated two weight classes lower for most of his career.
But the appetite to see two icons – Eubank Sr and Nigel Benn – back in the boxing sphere alongside their offspring was insatiable.
As characters, they could not be further apart.
Eubank Sr is a performer, often pulling focus from his son with his dance moves, while the elder Benn is straight and to the point.
At the post-fight news conference, Nigel had changed out of his cream suit and donned a blue Team Benn tracksuit.
He entered the room next to his son and they were followed by a group of around 20 people made up of family, friends and coaches.
Benn made sure to pay tribute to every one of them after helping him through “dark times” when he was banned from boxing after testing positive for a banned substance.
“There were a lot of people in the changing room that were there for me in those dark times,” Benn said.
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‘Winning the WBC belt is heavy on my mind’
In beating Eubank, Benn has achieved something his father was unable to do.
He is already looking to his next goal, following in Nigel’s footsteps by winning the WBC world title.
Benn keeps his father’s belt on the wall at his gym to provide motivation when he is going through gruelling sessions.
“Winning the WBC title is heavy on my mind,” Benn said.
“It’s the title my dad won and is my dream. I’m up on him with Eubank-Benn rivalry and now want that title.”
Benn silenced his doubters by winning the rematch and he will have plenty more waiting in the wings to make a case for why he cannot win a world title.
Even promoter Eddie Hearn admitted he did not think Benn was capable of winning a regional title when he saw him make his debut in 2016, describing him as a “mess”.
Benn agreed. “I was worse than that, I was terrible,” he replied.
Hearn plans to push for a world title fight next and an all-British affair could be on the cards.
Jamie Conlan, who manages IBF champion Lewis Crocker, said the Northern Ireland fighter was open to facing Benn if he beat Eubank.
