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Pet Wants franchise — is it worth it?

Medium risk Shrinking network Item 19 disclosed

Pet Wants offers pet services with a relatively low initial investment.

Everything below is free, read straight off Pet Wants's registered filing, with where the numbers land against pet services peers. Weighing Pet Wants against other options? Get a free shortlist of franchises that fit your budget.

Figures above are as disclosed in Pet Wants's most recent FDD (registered 2026). Source: Wisconsin Dept. of Financial Institutions — Franchise Registration · filing 640915 — check it yourself. See every other Wisconsin-registered franchise.

How much does a Pet Wants franchise make?

Pet Wants is one of the franchisors that answers this on the record: its most recent FDD makes an Item 19 financial performance representation — actual unit earnings figures, disclosed by the franchisor itself. The headline figure did not machine-read cleanly from this filing, so we don't print one; Item 19 of the source FDD has the tables. See every pet services brand that discloses earnings in the Pet services franchises with disclosed Item 19 earnings ranking.

Pet Wants franchise profit vs. revenue

Revenue is not profit. An Item 19 almost always reports sales — what a location takes in — not what an owner keeps. Out of that number come Pet Wants's 7% royalty, the ad fund, rent, payroll, supplies and debt service. No FDD tells you a Pet Wants franchise's profit, because profit depends on your site, your rent and how you run it — so treat any "Pet Wants franchise profit" figure quoted elsewhere as someone's estimate, not a disclosure.

Pet Wants lawsuits & legal history (FDD Item 3)

Pet Wants's most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026) does disclose 4 legal proceedings in Item 3 . Item 3 is the item where a franchisor must put its material legal history on the record. Two things it is not: it covers the franchisor and its predecessors, parents and affiliates, so a disclosed case is not necessarily a suit against Pet Wants itself; and a disclosure is a fact, not a finding of wrongdoing — most entries are contract disputes with former franchisees, which every large system accumulates. 1 of those proceedings were brought by franchisees against the franchisor — the split that actually matters, because franchisees suing their franchisor is the signal a buyer is looking for. Item 3 of the source FDD describes each case.

Pet Wants closures & failure rate

Before you sign, Pet Wants will hand you a list of current owners to call as references — and they choose who's on that list. It won't include the owners who quit, got bought out, or were forced out last year. The FDD does report that number, even though the reference list leaves those people off. Below is what Pet Wants's most recent filing shows, and whether it's normal for a pet services of this kind.

The closest thing an FDD has to a failure rate is Item 20 — outlet openings, closures, terminations and non-renewals, reported by the franchisor. Pet Wants's latest tables show a shrinking franchised network — more units left than opened. Its franchised-outlet closure rate — closures, terminations and non-renewals against outlets — is 0.6%, against a pet services median of 1.6% — at or better than the category. Net franchised outlets moved -1 to 158 in the latest reported year.

Who owns Pet Wants?

Pet Wants's franchise is offered by Pet Wants Franchise System, LLC — the franchisor named on the cover of its most recently filed Franchise Disclosure Document (2026), and the entity a franchisee actually signs with. That name comes straight off the filing at WI DFI; it identifies the franchisor, not necessarily the ultimate parent company behind it.

Pet services franchises at a similar investment level

Anyone weighing Pet Wants is really weighing it against the other brands their money could go into. These are the closest by total initial investment (FDD Item 7), each with its own FDD-based page.

Pet Wants franchise — frequently asked