{"topic_id":"market_stats_ca_aafc_2024","category":"ca-market-stats","context":"---\ntopic_id: market_stats_ca_aafc_2024\ncategory: ca-market-stats\ntitle: \"Canada — Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada 2024: 17.2M dogs+cats (8.9M cats / 8.3M dogs); pet-food retail Can$6.7B; dog food 66.4% share\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada — 'Sector Trend Analysis – Pet food trends in Canada' (agriculture.canada.ca), first-hand Government of Canada report, pulled 2026-08-18 (Tavily /extract)\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/market-stats/ca_aafc_pet_food_trends_2024_2026-08-18.txt\nsource_type: ca_government_report_text\ndate_parsed: 2026-08-18\ntokens_estimated: 420\nverification:\n  method: substring_match\n  claims: 10\n  passed: 10\n  date: 2026-08-18\nsource_document: \"Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada — Sector Trend Analysis: Pet food trends in Canada (2024 data)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Government of Canada)\"\n  title: \"Canada — AAFC 2024: 17.2M dogs+cats; pet-food retail Can$6.7B; dog food 66.4% share\"\n  url: \"https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/international-trade/reports-and-guides/sector-trend-analysis-pet-food-trends-canada\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-08-18\"\n  ref: \"AAFC Sector Trend Analysis – Pet food trends in Canada (2024)\"\n  doc_type: \"published government sector-analysis report (first-hand, 🟢)\"\n  needs_review: false\nauthority_tier: T1\nauthority_tier_basis: \"manual:Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (federal government department) report\"\nauthority_tier_date: 2026-08-18\n---\n\n# Canada — pet population and pet-food market (AAFC 2024)\n\nSource: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada \"Sector Trend Analysis – Pet food trends in Canada\" (agriculture.canada.ca), a first-hand Government of Canada report, pulled 2026-08-18. All figures below are verbatim from the source (Canadian-dollar figures as \"Can$\").\n\n## Pet ownership and population (2024)\n- \"Out of 12.2 million households that own a dog(s) and/or a cat(s) and a cat/dog population of 17.2 million in Canada\"\n- \"50.9% owned a cat(s) compared to 49.1% whom owned a dog(s) in 2024\"\n- \"the total pet population consisted of 8.9 million cats, 8.3 million dogs (majority large dog - 43.5%), 2.5 million birds, 8.6 million fish, 1.2 million small mammals, and 274.3 thousand of reptiles\"\n\n## Pet-food market size and growth (2024)\n- \"In 2024, pet food retail sales in the Canadian market totalled Can$6.7 billion\"\n- \"growing at a CAGR of 10.0% for sales of dog & cat food (Can$6.6 billion) and at a CAGR of 8.1% for sales of other pet food (Can$122.0 million) between 2019 and 2024\"\n- \"Dog food sales accounted for 66.4% of the total market share within the sector, followed by cat food (31.8%), fish food (0.8%), bird food (0.7%), and small mammal/reptile food (0.4%) in 2024\"\n\n## Leading companies (2023, overall pet-food sector)\n- \"leading companies in the overall pet food sector in Canada included Mars Inc. … at total sales of Can$1.5 billion or 24.7% value share\"\n- \"Nestlé SA for dog & cat food brands (Dog Chow/Friskies) at Can$1.0 million (16.7%)\" — note: the source expresses this figure as \"Can$1.0 million\"; at a 16.7% value share this is internally inconsistent with the Can$6.7B market and is reproduced verbatim as printed (appears to be a unit typo in the government report).\n- \"The JM Smucker Company (Milk-Bone/Meow Mix) at Can$321.7 million (5.2%)\"\n\n## Honest gaps\n- Channel / distribution structure (grocery vs pet-specialty vs online share) is **not** broken out in this Government of Canada report; left as an honest gap rather than filled from a second-hand source.\n- The report notes it \"includes forecasting data that is based on baseline historical data\"; only the stated 2024 actuals and 2019–2024 CAGRs are quoted here.\n\nSource: `pdf-raw/market-stats/ca_aafc_pet_food_trends_2024_2026-08-18.txt` — AAFC \"Pet food trends in Canada\", pulled 2026-08-18.\n","sources":["ca-market-stats — Canada — AAFC 2024: 17.2M dogs+cats; pet-food retail Can$6.7B; dog food 66.4% share (retrieved 2026-08-18)"],"source":{"authority":"ca-market-stats","title":"Canada — AAFC 2024: 17.2M dogs+cats; pet-food retail Can$6.7B; dog food 66.4% share","url":"https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/international-trade/reports-and-guides/sector-trend-analysis-pet-food-trends-canada","retrieved":"2026-08-18","ref":"","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada — Sector Trend Analysis: Pet food trends in Canada (2024 data)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/market-stats/ca_aafc_pet_food_trends_2024_2026-08-18.txt"},"source_document":"Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada — Sector Trend Analysis: Pet food trends in Canada (2024 data)","source_file":"pdf-raw/market-stats/ca_aafc_pet_food_trends_2024_2026-08-18.txt","trust":{"authority_tier":"T1","fidelity":"verbatim","license":null,"display_grade":"A"},"tokens_estimated":685,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}