How we make money
Pawdget is free and has no accounts or paywalls. It is funded two ways. Affiliate commissions: when you follow a link marked partner link and buy a product or policy, the partner may pay us a commission at no extra cost to you. And advertising: ad slots served by Google AdSense, which we have applied for and which are not running yet. Neither buys a place in a list or a change to a figure.
The two differ in one way worth knowing. We choose the partners, so we can refuse one — and we have: the insurance slot sits empty rather than carry a program we have not vetted. Ads are chosen by a network, not by us, so we do not know in advance which advertiser turns up. What we do control is where an ad may go, and the answer is: not in the embeddable calculator, not inside the methodology tables, and never above the cost summary.
What does not change
Commissions never touch the figures. Cost estimates are computed from the sources listed on the methodology page before any partner is chosen, and the same number appears whether or not a partner block is on the page. Partner blocks are visually separate (the blue-grey boxes), labelled, and never placed above the cost summary.
Current partners
- Sam's Club — food · Sam's Club US (Admitad)
- Amazon — gear · Amazon Associates
Some slots have no signed program behind them yet — Pet insurance comparison, Chewy — so they carry no link at all: you see our own figure and nothing to click. We would rather leave a gap than hand you a paid link we have not vetted.
Partner links go through /go/… redirects tagged rel="sponsored", so search engines know they are paid. We do not accept payment for placing a breed, product or insurer higher in any list.
Amazon
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Amazon links on this site go to a department search — "extra large dog crate", "dog nail clippers" — and never to one chosen product. The prices in our shopping lists are our own samples recorded by hand at PetSmart with the date they were taken; they are not Amazon prices and should not be read as such. Amazon's own rules also forbid us quoting its prices by hand, which is the same answer from the other direction.
These links appear on the English pages only. Sending a reader in Mexico or Spain to the US store would mean US prices and international shipping, which is not a recommendation.