140 breeds · 8 services · 121 U.S. metros
Pet Care Tools
Free, transparent tools to research pet service costs: estimate an annual budget, compare two breeds side by side, or look up a metro's price index.
- 140
- Dog breeds
- 8
- Priced services
- 121
- U.S. metros
- 4
- Tools
Tools by purpose
Exclusive partition of the 4 tool cards on this hub. Parts sum to the catalog total.
Annual Pet Cost Estimator
Estimate your full annual grooming, boarding, and training spend by dog size and metro cost tier, all in one calculator.
Breed Cost Compare
Compare estimated grooming, boarding, and training costs for two dog size categories side by side. Useful when choosing between two breeds.
Pet Ownership Cost Estimator
Estimate the total annual cost of dog ownership, food, routine care, grooming, and supplies, scaled by dog size.
Metro Price Index
Look up pet-service price indices for 121 US metros, modelled from regional cost-of-living surveys, urban-core wage data, and pet-service rate sampling applied to industry-survey base rates.
What's in the archive: full-groom price landscape
Modelled full-groom price midpoint across all 140 breeds this portal's tools draw on. Use this to sanity-check a result from the calculators above.
Full-groom price, all tracked breeds
Modelled midpoint (low-high average), industry survey + BLS regional calibration
modelled full-groom price, bucketed by value
Each bar is a $0.01K-wide band; taller bars hold more breeds. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source PlainPetCare breed_prices extract
All tools draw from the same canonical PlainPetCare dataset covering grooming, boarding, and training, this portal does not model veterinary pricing. Prices are estimates based on industry survey data and BLS-calibrated regional cost indices, not real-time quotes. Confirm directly with local providers before committing. See our methodology for full data sourcing details.
Download the metro price-index extract: metro-price-index.csv (same CSV as /statistics).
Every figure on PlainPetCare is rendered directly from AKC breed data and industry pet-service pricing surveys, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.