Charley Chau

14/08/2026

In 3 weeks time we will be back at one of our favourite events of the year - the Defender Burghley Horse Trials and we're giving away a pair of tickets (worth up to £120) so you can join us for world class dressage, cross-country and show jumping, PLUS the world- renowned shopping!

When I say world-renowned, Burghley is the only event in the world where you can order a bespoke Hermès saddle, shop for diamonds at Boodles, snap up the latest "it" boots from Fairfax & Favor, and invest in a luxe Charley Chau dog bed in one place!

Burghley runs from 3-6 September at Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire. Head to our blog (link in comments) to enter the ticket draw - no purchase necessary. Good luck and we hope to see you there!

13/08/2026

A very lovely and personal feature in the press to share 😍This is Stanley the Whippet as seen in The Field Magazine this month. Many of you will remember Paola Marra, founder of iheartwhippets and a member of the Charley Chau team here at HQ until she was diagonsed with cancer for the third time. Paola passed away 2 years ago, choosing to end her life at Dignitas, and Stanley was her last remaining dog. Stanley is 16 now and is loved and cared for by the lovely Mark James (Mark James Photography). The Field contacted us a month ago and said they were running a Whippet feature and asked if we could supply a Whippet image for their article. My first thought was Stanley so I messaged Mark who kindly took this gorgeous photo of Stanley and we sent it on to The Field's editorial team. We had no idea if the photo would make it in to the feature but this month's edition is out now and we are over the moon to see Stanley starring in print in a really fabulous Whippet feature. The article is a brilliant read so do grab a copy of The Field this month. A huge thank you to the team at The Field for the lovely feature -always appreciated by a small business like Charley Chau. And a huge thank you to Mark & Stanley for this very special photo - Paola will be smiling on ❤

03/08/2026

Time for cake… Charley Chau turns 16 today! 16 years of keeping dogs as comfy as caninely possible 😍🐶

We never imagined, sitting on the sitting room floor back in 2010 hand-stitching a Snuggle Bed for Charley & Anna, that it would lead to founding Charley Chau — let alone that we'd leave our "proper" jobs to start a small British business. Yet here we are, 16 years later, still doing something we love every single day.
A heartfelt thank you to all our customers and friends here on Facebook 🙏 we truly wouldn't still be here without your support.

To celebrate our 16th birthday, we’ve launched a ‘Sweet 16’ offer on our website for our birthday this week – see website, link in comments 😍

29/07/2026

Awww. … Tino Ninja Dog on Country Life Magazine ❤️ Deeply Dishy Bed in Weave II ❤️

Interiors are evolving to accommodate the new roaming rights afforded to our four-legged friends.

24/07/2026

UPDATED 14.44: Success! That horrid fake site is no longer serving a mirror copy of Charley Chau! 👍 We think the fraudster received notification of the takedown requests from the registrar, Cloudflare, its hosting company and Google and decided it wasn’t worth the bother with what they were trying to do. We’ll keep monitoring but glad that has gone!

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⚠️ An important update for our customers ⚠️

We've discovered a fake website impersonating Charley Chau's official site. It's operated under the name "Pawio" — I'll type the address with spaces so nobody accidentally clicks it: w w w . p a w i o . u s

❌ If you're on a site that looks like Charley Chau but the address bar shows p a w i o . u s (or anything that isn't charleychau.com), leave the site immediately - do not enter any payment or personal details.

❌ Pawio is nothing to do with Charley Chau and we do not operate their fake website despite their claims.

✅ Charley Chau has NOT been hacked and there is no security breach on our side. Nothing bad has happened on our own website or to any of our customer's data.

✅ Charleychau.com runs on Shopify, which is independently certified Level 1 PCI DSS compliant — the highest security standard in the payment card industry — so all payments made on our real site are protected to that standard.

✅ To shop with us safely, only visit www.charleychau.com. Always check that the address in your browser starts with charleychau.com.

✅ If you're worried about anything, call us on 0161 848 8702 or email [email protected] — these are our official, verified contact details. We're also happy to take your order over the phone.

WHAT ARE WE DOING ABOUT IT?

We think we discovered the fake site really fast and we have:

➡️ Filed takedown requests with the domain registrar, Cloudflare (who provide the content delivery network the fake site runs on), the hosting provider, and Google
➡️ Pushing for Google to stop indexing the fake site's pages.
➡️ Filed a fraud report with the police

The takedown processes can take time with third parties, and we will keep pushing ot get the fake site removed.

NOTE ON WHAT'S ACTUALLY GOING ON

Fraudsters can now copy live websites in real time using techniques called reverse proxies — essentially, they pull pages directly from a real website and republish them under a different address, hoping to confuse shoppers into buying there instead. In our case, the fake Pawio site is showing our full product catalogue but with lower prices — a classic trick to lure people onto the fraudulent site. We've put a warning on charleychau.com and written a full blog post about what's happening: https://www.charleychau.com/blogs/blog-offers/beware-of-the-fakes

Ironically, because the fake Pawio site pulls content directly from ours, it's currently showing our warning too — for now, at least.

We will keep you posted as we work on this one. In the meantime, have a fab weekend!

22/07/2026

👀 Spot anyone you recognise? A huge thank you to the fabulous Country Life Magazine for interviewing me for the dog edition of the magazine that is out now! Love seeing Theo and Brutus in the magazine along with our Bliss Bolster Bed! It’s such an honour to be asked and for the magazine to use one of our photos of the gang as one of the main images for the feature is awesome. Huge thanks to Mary Skipwith who wrote the article ❤️🙏❤️

Country Life’s dog edition is out now so head out a grab a copy as it’s definitely worth a read ❤️❤️❤️

21/07/2026

Can't beat a beautifully handcrafted leather dog collar and lead set. We've been working with the lovely Geoff Thompson of Petiquette Collars now for 14 years and we've just had a little refresh of the beautiful colour palette - now available in 18 gorgeous colourways. Classic collars, sighthound collars, house collars and co-ordinating leads. All made to order for the perfect fit: any breed, any size. British craftsmanship at its finest 😍 On a more personal note, when I created this montage of all of the leather colours laid out in a grid, I found it strangely satisfying 😎

19/07/2026

A little show update … we’re competing at very few shows this year because Brutus can’t go under judges who have already awarded him CCs so yesterday we had only our 3rd outing this year, the Italian Greyhound Club’s Championship show. I felt very out of practice but Ray and Brutie did me proud and both won 1st place in their classes. No further honours but chuffed to bits and a lovely day all round. Some candid shots from the ring. Look at Ray - such a difference to a few months ago! ❤️ ps excuse my stern face - I actually get really nervous when we’re showing so I always have to really concentrate and I always end up looking grumpy 😂

16/07/2026

A thing happened today. We launched a limited edition cool Cotton Waffle Throw and before we even got to sharing the news here on FB, they had sold out! We’re having more made, they’ll be here next week 😎 available to pre-order now on our website ❤️

29/06/2026

Our lovely PR, Alex, is chasing us on our Christmas press release. It's still June and we have to have it ready next week 😟 Ray says she can't cope and needs a tea break.