Amazon’s Prime Day sale is once again just around the corner, with the 2024 event taking place on Tuesday, July 16 and Wednesday, July 17.
In among the very best Prime Day deals – whether that’s gaming discounts, savings on laptops, LEGO price cuts or savings on Amazon’s own-brand Alexa-enabled Echo smart speakers and Fire TV sticks, it’s important not to forget some very important members of your extended family – your pets – when bargain-hunting on Prime Day.
Several members of the Digital Spy team (your writer included) are very fortunate to have the responsibility of caring for a beloved pet or pets. We want to give them the very best – and, of course, that includes the best deals, whether that’s bulk savings on their favourite food and treats, or a price cut on an investment piece of tech like an automated pet food feeder, WiFi enabled water fountain, or a Furbo or PetCube camera for the helicopter pet parents among us.
Prime Day hasn’t quite started yet, but we’re already hard at work scouring Amazon’s inventory for the best pre-event savings. Our last price check was conducted on Monday, July 15.
Prime Day pet supplies deals – pet food and treats
Premium pet food retailer Lily’s Kitchen is already offering savings on items from its cat and dog food ranges (our friends at Country Living have ranked it as their best homemade pet food brand for dogs).
The brand’s 2.5kg dry dog food bags get a 34% price cut ahead of Prime Day (was £25, now £16.50) across four different flavour varieties. Customers who want regular deliveries can save even more with a Subscribe & Save price of £14.85 per bag.
A 32-tray bundle of Lily’s Kitchen’s mixed Smooth Paté selection for cats is 18% cheaper than usual at the moment (RRP £32, now £26.24). Again, those who are happy to subscribe for regular deliveries can save even more (Subscribe & Save price – £23.52).
Another brand to make Country Living‘s best dog food roundup is Harrington’s. Dog owners can save over 40% on a bumper pack of Harrington’s grain-free ‘Adult Complete’ wet food (RRP £27.85, now £16.49), containing 16 trays of four different varieties.
There aren’t very many deals on Harringtons’ dry cat food yet, but you can save 22% on a 40-pack of mixed meat and fish wet food in jelly (this particular variety pack is approved by Jolene, the Digital Spy managing editor’s cat).
It usually retails for £18 but now costs £13.99 (or £13.29 if you subscribe and save).
Prime Day pet supplies deals – cat litter and dog waste bags
There’s no way of really approaching the subject of your pet’s business delicately, so we’ll just get to it.
As well as savings on the likes of Catsan and Amazon’s own-brand litter, litter mats can be an invaluable accessory for any cat’s household (let’s face it, it’s their household and you’re lucky enough to be granted access).
This Conlum cat litter mat was already reasonably priced at just under £10, but you can currently save a further 30% bringing the cost down to £6.99.
It’s only got one layer, unlike some double-layered mats which aim to trap the litter and work a bit like a bag – but its grid design should help catch stray litter for a lower-stress cleanup.
For those of you with dogs, you might like to know that you can save on dog waste bags from the likes of Earth Rated (save 33% on 120 recycled bags), and Lily’s Kitchen (save 58% on 60 compostable bags).
This Yingdelai bumper pack contains 540 dog waste bags (27 rolls) and also comes with a handy standard-size dispenser, if you’re in need of one. It’s usually priced at £20.99, but has received a 19% price cut to £16.99 ahead of Prime Day.
Prime Day pet supplies deals – dog and cat toys
Want to play fetch with your dog for a very reasonable cost? There’s a bundle of 12 Petface-branded tennis balls which currently has a 72% price reduction (usually £8.99, now £2.50).
For those of you looking for something a little less sporty, a number of Petface dog toys have received very big price reductions ahead of Prime Day. Fancy a soft squeaky carrot for 75p, or a broccoli chew toy for a mere 50p?
Meanwhile, Catit’s range of toys remains popular, and its Senses Play Circuit has also received a very big price reduction (RRP £20.21, now £5.70).
Easy to set up, take apart, clean and reassemble, these circuits are designed to be reconfigured with ease to give your cat variety. If you or your cat aren’t keen on using the flashing ball that’s supplied with the item, then the tracks will also accommodate small ping-pong balls.
Prime Day pet tech deals – automatic feeders, water fountains, Furbo and Petcube cameras and more
Some deals on automatic feeders are running for Prime members already. PETLIBRO’s automatic 3-litre dry food feeder usually retails at £69.99, but is £10 cheaper for Prime members at £59.99.
You can program up to 6 daily meals and use a manual feeding button to dispense extra food, and it can run on battery backup power if there’s a power cut.
Note this version doesn’t have WiFi or app capabilities for remote feeding (you’ll need to pay a little more either the smaller 2-litre PETLIBRO Air, or a fair bit more for the larger 5-litre PETLIBRO Granary WiFi).
There’s also a deal running on this Petkit automatic feeder – again, it’s a 3-litre model for dry food and usually retails for £79.99. However, Prime members can save 21% and purchase the item for £62.99.
This device does have a companion app and you can receive notifications in the event of an error with your device. You can also program up to 30 servings per day, and it has backup battery power.
Finally, the Petcube Bits 2 Lite pet camera is currently on sale for half-price (RRP £149, now £75). However, note there is a long lead time for delivery and it only works with 2.4GHz WiFi (not 5GHz Wifi, so bear this in mind when setting up). To read Petcube’s statement on its security protocols for data transmission, head this way.
Petcubes have a companion app with push notifications for movement and sound, and its optional Petcube Care subscription unlocks extra features. This Petcube Bites 2 device also has a built-in treat dispenser.