Two flats. One garden. Two pets.
Charlie & Luna is a small review blog about anxiety, hydration and enrichment for dogs and cats. It is written by two people. The reviews are written by Charlie and Luna, who are paid in cheese.
The humans.
We are two people in our thirties living in the south of England. One of us is a vet nurse; the other is a graphic designer who used to run a print magazine. Between us we have approximately one set of useful skills for this project.
We started the blog in 2024 because we could not find a single roundup of dog cooling mats that admitted to having actually used the mats. They were all listicles. Some had clearly never seen a Labrador. We wrote our own.
The animals.
Charlie destroyed three dog beds before we figured out the problem was not the beds. He paces during thunderstorms, panics when we leave the house, and overheats in any weather above 75°F. Cooling mats and enrichment toys did not cure any of that, but they were the first things that meaningfully helped — which is why this blog exists. He has since worked his way through every cooling mat, lick mat, slow-feeder, snuffle mat, and calming chew on this site. He is paid in cheese and a daily walk on the South Downs.
Luna arrived dehydrated and refusing to drink from bowls. Before we found a fountain she liked, she had a UTI every three months; in the two years since, she has had zero. A single piece of plastic and a small pump changed her health more than anything we have ever spent money on as adults. She is unusually fond of running water and unusually unfond of carriers. She is paid in chicken.
How we fund this.
The site uses affiliate links. When you buy something through one of them, we earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. We buy every product we review with our own money before any affiliate relationship exists. We have never accepted a free product in exchange for coverage, and we never will. If we ever do, you will see it disclosed at the top of the post in the same band as everything else.
Get in touch.
Email: hello@charlieandluna.com. We read everything; we reply slowly.