Metro by metro
The leading pet store chains in every Colorado metro area
Tracked pet store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. PetSmart leads in all 5 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in Colorado as a whole, PetSmart stands out in 1 metro area, Petco in 1 metro area, and Chuck & Don's Pet Food & Supplies in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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PetSmart
Relative #1 in Boulder, CO, 0.9× its share in Colorado
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Petco
Relative #1 in Colorado Springs, CO, 1.3× its share in Colorado
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Chuck & Don's Pet Food & Supplies
Relative #1 in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO, 1.2× its share in Colorado
Not enough tracked stores: Grand Junction, CO · Pueblo, CO
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Fort Collins-Loveland, CO · Greeley, CO
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PetSmart
#1 in all 5 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Grand Junction, CO · Pueblo, CO
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked pet store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Colorado compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Colorado as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Colorado and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Colorado is light gray. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked pet store chains
Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Wag N' Wash Natural Pet Food & Grooming and Chuck & Don's Pet Food & Supplies sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Wag N' Wash Natural Pet Food & Grooming | - | +9.1% |
| 2 | Chuck & Don's Pet Food & Supplies | - | +8.0% |
| 3 | PetSmart | - | -8.0% |
| 4 | Scales 'N Tails | - | -8.3% |
| 5 | Petco | - | -8.5% |
- PetSmart
- Petco
- Chuck & Don's Pet Food & Supplies
- Poudre Pet & Feed Supply
- Pet Supplies Plus
- Wag N' Wash Natural Pet Food & Grooming
- Wild Birds Unlimited
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
291 tracked store locations in Colorado. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 110 of the 291 stores (38%); 136 of the 153 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are pet stores, against 3% across the United States.
- PetSmart (36)
- Petco (37)
- Chuck & Don's Pet Food & Supplies (18)
- Poudre Pet & Feed Supply (6)
- Pet Supplies Plus (7)
- Wag N' Wash Natural Pet Food & Grooming (9)
- Wild Birds Unlimited (10)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Petco 37
- 2 PetSmart 36
- 3 Chuck & Don's Pet Food & Supplies 18
- 4 Wild Birds Unlimited 10
- 5 Wag N' Wash Natural Pet Food & Grooming 9
- 6 Pet Supplies Plus 7
- 7 Scales 'N Tails 7
- 8 Poudre Pet & Feed Supply 6
- 9 Chow Down Pet Supplies 6
- 10 EarthWise Pet 3
- 11 Paws 'n' Play 3
- 12 Kriser's Natural Pet 3
- 13 Fresh Tracks Pet Shop 2
- 14 Chewy Vet Care 2
- 15 5280 Reptile Room 2
- 16 Three Dog Bakery 2
- 17 Pet Pantry & Dog Wash 2
- 18 The Jungle Pet Shop 1
- 19 AlgaeBarn 1
- 20 Pet Releaf 1
- 21 Farfel's Farm 1
- 22 Mountain Paw Pet Supply 1
- 23 Lewis & Cluck 1
- 24 Westside Feed & Mercantile 1
- 25 Wags & Whiskers 1
- 26 Creature Comforts 1
- 27 Dingo's Natural Pet Food, Self-Wash and Grooming 1
- 28 Mountain Dog Pet Supply 1
- 29 Dogma Pet Supply & Dog Wash 1
- 30 Pawsitively Native -Gunnison 1
- 31 House of Exotics 1
- 32 Our Pet Spot 1
- 33 High Paw Pet Supplies 1
- 34 Bonez 4 Budz 1
- 35 Elk River Farm And Feed 1
- 36 Maw & Paw Pet Market 1
- 37 The Old Feed Store 1
- 38 Feeder Frenzy Reptiles 1
- 39 Underwater Wonders 1
- 40 South Broadway Tropicals 1
- 41 Frontier Feeds 1
- 42 Gone Wild Pet & Supply 1
- 43 The K9 Body Shop 1
- 44 Quality Pet Food Warehouse 1
- 45 Mountain Tails 1
- 46 Liquid Kingdom 1
- 47 Reefkoi Corals LLC 1
- 48 Rampart Feed & Pet 1
- 49 Quality Paws 1
- 50 Fish Connection 1
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