Unnamed pet fed by book group (8)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

CA{n}OODLE (pet – kiss and cuddle) [unnamed – minus ‘n’] contains [is fed by] B to make CABOODLE (group). I know this word only from the expression ‘the whole kit and caboodle’ meaning the whole number or quantity of people or things in question. This was my last-but-one in and I had sweated blood over it as I was missing the C-checker. The C then allowed me to resolve my LOI at 1d which I had sweated even more blood over.