CityDogsLife pays for itself with affiliate links and display ads. There is no paywall, no membership, nothing to subscribe to. When you follow a link from here to a retailer and buy something, the retailer sends us a cut of that sale. You pay the same price you would have paid going there directly, and the commission comes out of their margin, not your wallet.
The programs we are actually in
Our affiliate programs:
Amazon Associates covers most of it. Product links point at amazon.com and carry our store tag, citydogslif09-20. The wording Amazon requires: CityDogsLife is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
CJ Affiliate handles the pet pharmacies: CanadaPetCare, PetCareSupplies, BudgetPetCare and Raw Paws. Those show up in the flea, tick, heartworm and joint-care articles, where the price gap against a clinic refill is the whole point. Those links travel through anrdoezrs.net before they land on the retailer.
Rakuten Advertising accounts for exactly one brand link, Hill’s Pet, routed through click.linksynergy.com.
How to spot an affiliate link
Every one of them is marked rel="sponsored nofollow" in the HTML and opens in a new tab. The recommendation boxes inside articles carry their own one-line disclosure, so you are told before the click rather than after it.
Nothing on this site is veterinary advice. When a claim needs a professional behind it, we quote one and link to the source so you can read it yourself. More on that in how we work.
Ads
The banner and in-article slots are served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners use cookies to choose what to show you, which is why you get a consent prompt before anything loads if you are in the EU or the UK. Refusing is a real option: the ads keep working, they just stop being personalised. The privacy policy covers what is stored and for how long.
Questions
If something here is unclear, or you think a link is mislabelled, tell us through the contact page and we will fix it.
Last updated: 10 August 2026.