Included goods
The basket includes dry dog food, wet dog food, treats, waste bags, training pads, and shampoo. These are recurring shelf purchases, so the page is built for monitoring changes over time.
Composite history
Cost of Dog Ownership Per Year
Cost of Dog Ownership Per Year: CostInflation tracks the annual retail-goods cost of owning a mid-sized dog, including dry food, wet food, treats, waste bags, training pads, and shampoo.
Cost of Dog Ownership Per Year tracks annual mid-sized dog retail goods composite prices across observed CostInflation markets, with city trends, latest ranges, daily history, and methodology context.
Latest range
$875.88 to $1,024.95
Jul 15, 2026
What this dog ownership cost page covers
This cornerstone tracks the recurring retail-goods cost of owning a mid-sized dog. It focuses on goods that can be observed repeatedly online and normalized across cities.
Excluded costs
The page does not estimate veterinary care, grooming appointments, boarding, prescriptions, insurance, adoption fees, or durable starter gear. Those costs vary by service provider and household situation.
How to read the components
Food tends to carry most of the annual basket, so the dry and wet food pages are the first places to inspect when one city separates from another.
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Cost of Dog Ownership Per Month
Divide the annual values on this page by 12 for a monthly retail-goods equivalent.
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Dog 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
- 6
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)
- +1.8%
- +$16.25 index points
- Total composite change
- +$16.25
- from $896.62 to $912.87
How components built the composite change
Start$896.62
- Dog treats+$29.78+3.3%
- Wet dog food-$10.72-1.2%
- Dry dog food-$3.24-0.4%
- Dog shampoo+$1.86+0.2%
- Dog training pads-$1.68-0.2%
- Dog waste bags+$0.260.0%
End$912.87
Component price pages
Use the component pages to inspect the member price series behind this index.
Dry dog-food listings normalized to a 15-pound retail bag-equivalent.
15 lb bag-equivalent
Wet dog-food listings normalized to a 12.5-ounce can-equivalent.
12.5 oz can-equivalent
Dog-treat listings normalized to a 22-ounce retail bag-equivalent.
22 oz bag-equivalent
Dog waste-bag listings normalized to a 270-count retail pack-equivalent.
270 bags
Dog training-pad listings normalized to a 50-count retail pack-equivalent.
50 pads
Dog-shampoo listings normalized to a 16-fluid-ounce retail bottle-equivalent.
16 fl oz bottle-equivalent
Cost of Dog Ownership Methodology
CostInflation's Representative Price Index for annual mid-sized dog 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 Dog Ownership Per Year" [dog_ownership_goods_index], CostInflation price history, https://costinflation.com/indices/cost-of-dog-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 18, the cost of dog ownership per year for recurring store-bought supplies ranged from about $882 in West San Antonio to $1,063 in Westside Jacksonville; dry dog food explained most of the gap.