A Knowledge Bank for the Dog Economy

The $100B Dog

A resource library establishing the dog economy as an institutional asset class — sourced, cataloged, and cited.
"We didn't say it. History did."
$100B
The line the dog economy operates at
$312B
Total U.S. economic contribution
71M
U.S. dog-owning households
10,000+
Years of demand history, and growing
The Economic Case

The dog won the cultural fight 10,000 years ago. This is the economic one.

Every other emerging asset class has to prove it matters and prove it's worth pricing. The dog only needs the second. Five pillars carry the case — and the records behind each one belong to someone else.

01 · Size
Size
~$80–100B
The dog-care economy, inside a ~$165B U.S. pet industry.
02 · Peers
Peers
Trash · Cancer
At the $100B line beside U.S. waste and U.S. oncology.
03 · Impact
Impact
2.8M jobs
$312B contribution, $22.4B in tax, nationwide.
04 · Longevity
Longevity
10,000+ yrs
The longest continuous demand history of any asset class. Uncopyable.
05 · Value
Value
Recognition
The path by which durable economies become investable.
Trash. Cancer. Dogs.U.S. markets at the $100B line · annual
$100B line
U.S. Waste & RecyclingIndustry revenue · 2024$104.6B
U.S. Oncology DrugsCancer-drug spend · 2023$99B
U.S. Dog-Care EconomyDog share of pet spend~$80–100B
$0$65B$130B
Three U.S. markets, each in annual dollars: waste as industry revenue, oncology as U.S. cancer-drug spend, the dog-care economy as the dog majority of pet spend. Sources: Waste Business Journal; IQVIA; APPA & analysis — see The Catalog.
The Library

The shelves.

We record, catalog, source, cite — and author what didn't exist. The reference layer, the evidence, and the works built on top.

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