Recurring goods only
The basket includes dry cat food, wet cat food, cat litter, cat treats, and litter box liners. It intentionally excludes veterinary care, prescriptions, flea and tick products, grooming, boarding, and durable starter goods.
Composite history
Cost of Cat Ownership Per Year
Cost of Cat Ownership Per Year: CostInflation tracks the annual retail-goods cost of owning one cat, including dry food, wet food, litter, treats, and litter box liners.
Cost of Cat Ownership Per Year tracks annual cat retail goods composite prices across observed CostInflation markets, with city trends, latest ranges, daily history, and methodology context.
Latest range
$674.40 to $736.43
Jul 15, 2026
What this cat ownership cost page covers
This page tracks the annual retail-goods cost of owning one cat, using observable shelf prices for food, litter, treats, and liner products.
Why food and litter matter
Wet food and litter can dominate the city gap even when the headline annual number looks stable. The leaf pages keep those drivers visible so readers can tell which shelf is changing.
Best use
Use this page for annual city comparisons, then inspect the wet food, dry food, litter, treat, and liner pages when the blended cat ownership line moves.
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Cost of Cat Ownership Per Month
Divide the annual values on this page by 12 for a monthly retail-goods equivalent.
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Cat Ownership Cost Components
Breaks this composite into its component indexes, showing each component's weight, recent contribution, and selected-city trend.See how each component contributes to the composite and how prices are moving across tracked cities.
- Tracked cities
- 12
- Components
- 5
Composite driver summary
Summarizes the selected city's latest 30-day composite move and the component impacts that raised or lowered it.- Change in composite (30d)
- -0.7%
- -$4.80 index points
- Total composite change
- -$4.80
- from $692.89 to $688.09
How components built the composite change
Start$692.89
- Wet cat food+$15.22+2.2%
- Dry cat food-$12.46-1.8%
- Cat treats-$6.37-0.9%
- Cat litter-$1.92-0.3%
- Litter box liners+$0.74+0.1%
End$688.09
Component price pages
Use the component pages to inspect the member price series behind this index.
Dry cat-food listings normalized to a 16-pound retail bag-equivalent.
16 lb bag-equivalent
Wet cat-food listings normalized to a 3-ounce can-equivalent.
3 oz can-equivalent
Cat litter listings normalized to a 20-pound retail box-equivalent.
20 lb box-equivalent
Cat-treat listings normalized to an 8-ounce retail pouch-equivalent.
8 oz pouch-equivalent
Litter box-liner listings normalized to a 20-count retail pack-equivalent.
20 liners
Cost of Cat Ownership Methodology
CostInflation's Representative Price Index for annual cat retail goods composite is our daily estimate of the typical shelf price shoppers are seeing, based on observed retail listings that are cleaned up and made comparable before they are averaged into one public number. We reduce the influence of unusual one-off prices so the index reflects the middle of the market, then combine component prices using the index's standard package sizes and weights. Charts can also show lower band, medium band and upper band.
Cite this data
CostInflation, "Cost of Cat Ownership Per Year" [cat_ownership_goods_index], CostInflation price history, https://costinflation.com/indices/cost-of-cat-ownership-per-year.
Latest observation: Jul 15, 2026. Updated: Jul 15, 2026. Coverage: Tracked cities.
Latest analysis
Recent CostInflation articles that explain movement in this series.
On June 22, the cost of cat ownership per year for recurring retail goods ranged from $638.52 in Clayton to $754.45 in South Philadelphia; wet cat food and litter explained most of the gap.