Industry vertical
Pet Care
Companies providing pet food, health products, veterinary pharmaceuticals, and retail services for companion animals and livestock.
35 providers
29 APIs
5 enterprise adopters
Pet Care on the APIs.io network indexes 35 providers publishing 29 APIs across this industry vertical.
Notable providers include PetExec, Gingr, Chewy, ManyPets, UrbanSitter, FirstVet, and 29 more — each profile links out to that provider’s APIs, schemas, and governance artifacts.
Related industries: Consumer Goods, E-commerce Platform, Digital Health & Telehealth, and Nutrition. Browse every industry vertical at industries.apis.io.
About this industry
Companies providing pet food, health products, veterinary pharmaceuticals, and retail services for companion animals and livestock. Membership is computed from every provider in the catalog whose tags match this vertical — 35 at the last build — rather than from a fixed list. API Evangelist research additionally tracks 3 sub-sectors within it: Animal Health & Veterinary Pharmaceuticals, Veterinary & Grooming Services, and Pet Food & Product Retail.
Market demand
Providers above are the supply side. This is the demand side — enterprises adopting API & AI technology in this vertical, drawn from API Evangelist Insights. Names and maturity are enterprise-scoped; they don't overlap with the provider catalog.
5enterprises adopting
#35 / 50adoption maturity rank
Statefulnessstrongest layer
Customization & Adaptationweakest layer
Leading adopters
Elanco Animal Health137Petco72Zoetis69Patterson Companies63Chewy54
AI & API adoption maturity
Mean adoption intensity across the enterprises above, by capability layer — how this vertical is maturing, from foundational models through governance and FinOps.
Demand data: API Evangelist Insights — enterprise API & AI adoption signals.
Providers (35)
| Provider | Description | APIs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| PetExec | PetExec is cloud-based business management software for dog daycares, boarding facilities, groomers, and trainers - scheduling, an owner portal, payments, and reporting. PetExec... | 1 | thin |
| Gingr | Gingr is pet-care business management software for dog daycare, boarding, training, and grooming facilities, covering reservations, check-in/checkout, client and pet records, fe... | 1 | thin |
| Chewy | Chewy, Inc. is a Fortune 500 American online retailer of pet food, pet products, prescription medications, and veterinary services headquartered in Plantation, Florida. Chewy is... | 1 | emerging |
| ManyPets | ManyPets (formerly Bought By Many, part of ManyGroup) is a digital-first pet insurance provider founded in 2012 by Steven Mendel and Guy Farley and headquartered in London, Unit... | 0 | emerging |
| UrbanSitter | UrbanSitter is an online marketplace that connects families with trusted local caregivers, including babysitters, nannies, child care providers, daycares and preschools, tutors,... | 0 | emerging |
| FirstVet | FirstVet is a digital veterinary care company offering 24/7 online video consultations with licensed veterinarians for dogs, cats, and other pets. Founded in Sweden, FirstVet op... | 0 | emerging |
| Mars | Mars, Incorporated is one of the world's largest privately held companies, producing confectionery, pet food, food, and providing veterinary care. The company owns iconic brands... | 1 | emerging |
| Petfolk | Petfolk is a Charlotte, North Carolina based veterinary care company that operates a network of modern, company-owned pet care centers across the US Southeast and Texas, paired ... | 0 | emerging |
| Butternut Box | Butternut Box is a London-headquartered direct-to-consumer pet nutrition company that cooks and delivers fresh, gently-steamed dog food on a personalised subscription. Customers... | 0 | emerging |
| Rover | Rover is the world's largest online marketplace for pet care, connecting pet parents with sitters and dog walkers for boarding, house sitting, drop-in visits, doggy daycare, and... | 0 | emerging |
| Zoetis | Zoetis is the world's leading animal health company, dedicated to discovering, developing, manufacturing, and commercializing medicines, vaccines, diagnostics, and technologies ... | 2 | emerging |
| Wag! | Wag! is a US pet-care marketplace that connects dog and pet owners with local, background-checked caregivers for on-demand and scheduled dog walking, drop-in visits, pet sitting... | 0 | emerging |
| Cuida Mi Mascota | Cuida Mi Mascota (CuidaMiMascota SAPI de CV) is a Mexican pet-care marketplace that connects pet owners with vetted, trusted caregivers for boarding (hospedaje), daycare, in-hom... | 0 | emerging |
| Modern Animal | Modern Animal is a membership-based veterinary healthcare company operating physical primary and urgent care clinics across major U.S. metropolitan regions, combining in-clinic ... | 0 | emerging |
| Pawfinity | Pawfinity is pet service business management software for grooming salons, mobile groomers, kennels, dog daycares, pet sitting, training, and pet therapy businesses - handling o... | 0 | emerging |
| Central Garden and Pet | Central Garden and Pet is a major US corporation and Fortune 1000 company. The Central Garden and Pet API provides programmatic access to its platform services, data, and integr... | 1 | emerging |
| Petco Animal Supplies | Petco Animal Supplies is a major US corporation and Fortune 1000 company. The Petco Animal Supplies API provides programmatic access to its platform services, data, and integrat... | 1 | emerging |
| Smalls | Smalls is a New York City based direct-to-consumer pet food company founded in 2017 by Matt Michaelson and Calvin Bohn, selling gently cooked human-grade fresh cat food, freeze-... | 0 | minimal |
| CareGuide | CareGuide is a Canadian company operating a network of online marketplaces that connect families with caregivers across child care, home care, pet care, and elder care, alongsid... | 0 | minimal |
| Skiptown | Skiptown is a modern pet-care company operating premium dog daycare, boarding, grooming, and walking services alongside its signature Dog Bar & Park — an indoor/outdoor social c... | 0 | minimal |
| Snout | Snout provides affordable veterinary wellness subscription plans that help pet owners access preventive and routine care without financial stress, while enabling veterinary clin... | 0 | minimal |
| Vetic | Vetic is a pet healthcare company in India operating a chain of full-service veterinary clinics and hospitals across 11 cities, paired with a consumer mobile app. Founded by Gau... | 0 | minimal |
| 21gram | 21gram (21그램) is a South Korean pet end-of-life care company that operates pet funeral homes and an online booking and consultation platform for pet funerals. Founded in Seoul a... | 0 | minimal |
| Felmo | felmo (felmo GmbH) is a mobile veterinary practice (mobile Tierarztpraxis) headquartered in Berlin, Germany that brings licensed veterinarians directly to pet owners' homes for ... | 0 | minimal |
| Petual | Petual is a direct-to-consumer pet wellness brand offering functional soft chews for dogs. The company sells six formulas — Thrive (daily longevity), Steady (calm & stress), Nou... | 0 | minimal |
| ilovewoof | ilovewoof (ilovewoof.com) is a UK-focused pet-care and lifestyle content publication covering companion animals and wildlife. It publishes pet-care guides, behavioral insights, ... | 0 | minimal |
| Care.com | Care.com is a two-sided online marketplace that connects families with caregivers across childcare, senior care, pet care, housekeeping, tutoring, and special-needs care, plus a... | 0 | minimal |
| The Farmer’s Dog | The Farmer’s Dog is a New York-based direct-to-consumer pet health company that makes fresh, human-grade dog food. Founded in 2014 by Brett Podolsky and Jonathan Regev, it... | 0 | minimal |
| DogVacay | DogVacay was a consumer marketplace for dog boarding, pet sitting, dog walking, and doggy daycare that connected pet owners with a network of vetted, background-checked pet sitt... | 0 | minimal |
| Itch | Itch is a UK direct-to-consumer pet wellness brand, backed by Seedcamp, offering a subscription service that delivers vet-approved flea, tick and worm treatments to pet owners o... | 0 | minimal |
| Pawsh | Pawsh is a consumer marketplace that connects pet owners with top-rated local dog and cat groomers. Pet owners browse groomer profiles, read real reviews, compare transparent pr... | 0 | minimal |
| TellTail | TellTail was a community-first platform providing community, education, and business support to dog breeders, connecting certified breeders with families seeking puppies. Backed... | 0 | minimal |
| Petcube | Petcube is a pet-technology company (a Y Combinator alum) that makes interactive Wi-Fi pet cameras and a companion mobile app for remote pet care. Its consumer hardware line inc... | 0 | minimal |
| Elanco Animal Health | Profile for Elanco Animal Health in the API Evangelist network. Fortune F1000 (rank 768). | 0 | minimal |
| Patterson Companies | Patterson Companies is a value-added distributor of dental and animal health products serving the dental, companion-pet veterinarian, and production-animal markets. No public de... | 0 | minimal |
APIs in this industry (29)
All 29 APIs.
PetExec Authentication API
PetExec
OAuth2 password-grant token issuance.
PetExec Boarding API
PetExec
Boarding reservations, packages, and services.
PetExec Calendar API
PetExec
Company-wide and per-owner reservation calendars by date range.
PetExec Company API
PetExec
Company locations, employees, lead sources, and preferences.
PetExec Credit Cards API
PetExec
Owner stored payment cards.
PetExec Daycare API
PetExec
Daycare reservations and services.
PetExec Grooming API
PetExec
Grooming reservations, groomers, and services.
PetExec Owners API
PetExec
Owner (pet parent) account records and search.
PetExec Pets API
PetExec
Pet profiles, pet types, breeds, and vets.
PetExec Profile API
PetExec
The authenticated user's own profile and portal menu.
PetExec Purchase History API
PetExec
Owner purchase/transaction history.
PetExec Reports API
PetExec
Billing and statistics reports.
PetExec Scheduled Services API
PetExec
Scheduled-service reservations, types, and services.
PetExec Vaccinations API
PetExec
Pet vaccination (shot) records.
Gingr Invoices API
Gingr
Invoices and charges.
Gingr Owners API
Gingr
Owner/client ("parent") records.
Gingr Payments API
Gingr
Charging and refunding cards on file, invoices, and deposits.
Gingr Pets API
Gingr
Pet profiles belonging to an owner.
Gingr Report Cards API
Gingr
Daily activity report cards generated for a pet's stay.
Gingr Reservations API
Gingr
Bookings/reservations for daycare, boarding, training, and grooming.
Gingr Services API
Gingr
Service catalog and facility configuration.
Gingr Vaccinations API
Gingr
Pet immunization/vaccination records.
Gingr Waitlist API
Gingr
Managing bookings that are on the facility waitlist.
Chewy Vendor Integration API
Chewy
Chewy provides vendor and supplier integration through the Dsco platform, enabling third-party brands and logistics providers to connect ...
Mars Developer Portal
Mars
Mars exposes a public Azure-API-Management developer portal at developer.mars.com that hosts APIs and API Products for partners, supplier...
Zoetis Direct Integrated Ordering
Zoetis
Zoetis Direct Integrated Ordering provides veterinary practices with an API integration for placing orders directly from practice managem...
Zoetis Vetscan Connectivity
Zoetis
Zoetis Vetscan Connectivity provides bidirectional communication between veterinary practice information management systems (PIMS) and Zo...
Central Garden and Pet API
Central Garden and Pet
The Central Garden and Pet API provides access to platform services and data for enterprise integration and automation.
Petco Animal Supplies API
Petco Animal Supplies
The Petco Animal Supplies API provides access to platform services and data for enterprise integration and automation.
Pet Care by region (8)
Each region is a page of its own, holding only the pet care providers headquartered there. Greyed pills are below the 5-provider floor — published as a roster, without generated statistics.
Europe 4
North America 2
United Kingdom & Ireland 2
DACH (Germany · Austria · Switzerland) 1
India & South Asia 1
Japan & Korea 1
Latin America 1
Nordics 1
Pet Care by country (6)
Country membership is matched on an exact country tag only — no headquarters signal — so these cells understate by construction and read lower than the region cuts above.
Related industries
Consumer Goods (3 shared)
E-commerce Platform (1 shared)
Digital Health & Telehealth (12 shared)
Nutrition (1 shared)
Sub-sectors tracked in this industry: Animal Health & Veterinary Pharmaceuticals, Veterinary & Grooming Services, Pet Food & Product Retail.
Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 31 providers in the APIs.io catalog classified under Pet Care, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.
Providers
31
all scored
Mean Kin Score
12.8
-11.0 vs catalog 23.8
Mean Agent Readiness
2.2
-9.4 vs catalog 11.6
Spread
2.4–37.5
median 11.2 · σ 7.8
How the 31 split by band
Exemplar 0Strong 0Developing 0Thin 2Emerging 15Minimal 14
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access Clarity | 22 | 26.3 | -4.3 | 31 |
| Contract Governance | 0.6 | 6.3 | -5.7 | 31 |
| Discoverability | 53.6 | 61 | -7.4 | 31 |
| Operational Transparency | 4.8 | 13.9 | -9.1 | 31 |
| Contract Quality | 4.6 | 19.8 | -15.2 | 31 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 6.7 | 23.3 | -16.6 | 31 |
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 0% | 10% | -10 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 0% | 9% | -9 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 0% | 11% | -11 |
| Security | 100% | 97% | +3 |
| Arazzo workflows | 0% | 2% | -2 |
| Governance rules | 0% | 14% | -14 |
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
Top by Kin Score
- 1 PetExec 37.5
- 2 Gingr 34.3
- 3 Chewy 24.3
- 4 ManyPets 22.4
- 5 UrbanSitter 16.8
- 6 FirstVet 16.3
- 7 Mars 16.3
- 8 Petfolk 15.9
- 9 Butternut Box 14.3
- 10 Rover 13.1
Top by Agent Readiness
- 1 Gingr 21.5
- 2 PetExec 19.8
- 3 Chewy 15.5
- 4 Mars 2.5
- 5 Zoetis 2.5
- 6 Central Garden and Pet 2.5
- 7 Petco Animal Supplies 2.5
- 8 21gram 2.5
- 9 ManyPets 0
- 10 UrbanSitter 0
All 35 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in
the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of
9 September 2026, across 27528
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
Work with this as data
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