How we source information
PetSoMo shows information from published sources, with a link, a date and a note on what each figure covers. Ask your veterinarian for advice and a written estimate.
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Find a source
Cost figures and health information come from published sources such as veterinary teaching hospitals, clinic price pages, regulatory labels and published surveys.
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Link the source
Each figure is shown with a link to the page it came from, so you can read it in full.
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Note the date and scope
We note when we retrieved each source, the date the source shows (or that it shows none), and whom the figure covers, such as one hospital, one region or one survey.
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Keep sources separate from links
Source information is kept separate from links to other websites. The site shows no ads.
Directory and pricing methodologies
Local pet care prices
Prices for routine pet care (dog boarding, daycare, grooming, and cat boarding where available) come from rates published on businesses' official websites. For each business, we record the lowest regular baseline price. We compute the median and middle-50% range across distinct facilities, updated quarterly. Across a metropolitan area, "local businesses" represents the deduplicated count of physical facilities (deduplicated by Google Maps place ID) that have at least one valid baseline regular price included in statistics across any live service. Facilities excluded due to unverified shared-URL listings or non-baseline pricing (such as packages, bath-only grooming, or mobile services) are not counted. Multiple locations of the same brand publishing identical prices are counted once in medians and ranges, so the statistical sample size on individual service pages may be smaller than the total count of distinct local businesses. Download aggregated price benchmarks (CSV) ↓
Emergency animal hospitals
Emergency animal hospitals are verified against each facility's own website to confirm active operating status, round-the-clock emergency availability, and local telephone numbers. Each city page displays its verification date, and listings are rechecked monthly.
Follow each product fact back to its source
Every product entry shows its identity source. Cost pages show each published figure with the name of its source next to it. Health guides give general information and do not list individual sources.
Medication labels
U.S. animal-drug label records are used to confirm product identity, species, form, route, strength or concentration, labeled weight band, prescription status, and application number.
Animal Drugs @ FDAMedical-supply specifications
Manufacturer pages are used to confirm brand, model, size, material, reuse or sterility statement, and pack details. Regulatory classification remains a separate check.
Links to other websites
Prices and availability are set by those sites. A link is an ordinary link to a product page on another website.
Prices and availability
Prices, stock, taxes and prescription steps are set by the other website. PetSoMo does not store or fabricate those values.
Safety boundary: PetSoMo does not offer diagnosis, symptom-based product selection, dose calculation, drug substitution or emergency triage, and does not process prescriptions. Read the source policy and external links disclosure.
Photos on PetSoMo are illustrative and do not show specific hospitals, patients or products.