How we research and compare

Which products we include

• Products sold by UK retailers. We leave out products you cannot buy in the UK.
• Products are included whether or not we could earn from them. Where a product has no affiliate programme we still list it, on the same basis.
• Brands cannot pay to be included or to get a better place in a comparison.

How we compare

• Food and supplements: ingredient panels, doses, feeding guides and price, worked out as cost per day where the maker publishes enough to do it.
• Physical products such as beds, harnesses and trackers: the maker's own specifications, materials and price.
• Insurance: policy terms, vet-fee limits, excess and exclusions. We explain cover; we do not rank insurers or give advice.
• Prices on our comparison pages show the date we checked them, and each comparison says what we did and did not do.

Health and safety claims

Health, nutrition and safety claims are linked to the vets' bodies, research, charities or regulators they come from. Claims we cannot source are left out. We are not vets; for your own pet, talk to your vet.

What we do not do

• Test products hands-on.
• Employ vets.
• Publish star ratings or scores without the formula on the same page. We do not currently score products.
• Let a brand approve what we write.

Updates and corrections

When a price, recipe or product changes, or we find a mistake, we update the page and record the correction in our corrections log.

Who does the work

Pawwala is researched and written by one editor, who also manages the affiliate relationships. That is why we publish how each comparison was made. See affiliate disclosure and how we make money. Questions about a page? Contact us.