Pet Drug Reports

Reports by species, 1987 to June 2026

Finding from the reports that FDA received through 26 Jun 2026

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FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine publishes these words. Source: Adverse Event Reports for Animal Drugs and Devices, read on . The data have the reports that FDA received through .

Reports about dogs were 72.6% of the 1,378,761 reports that FDA received from January 1987 to June 2026.

Reports about cats were 11%, and reports about cattle 2.3%.

In the 12 months to June 2026, FDA received 74,895 reports. That count fell by 4.6% from the 78,523 reports of the 12 months before.

Read the species denominator

Dog appears in 1,001,350 reports across the years in this table.

The share, 72.6%, uses reports as its denominator. It does not use the number of animals treated.

The latest 12-month count is 53,340; the preceding 12-month count is 54,592. Both are counts of reports received by FDA.

Reporting factors can change these counts. The table cannot show the chance that a treated animal will have a reaction.

Species in order of reports

Reports for each species with a page, in order of the number of reports in all years
SpeciesReports, all yearsShare of all reportsReports, 12 months to June 2026Reports, 12 months beforeChange
Dog1,001,35072.6%53,34054,592-2.3%
Cat151,15311%12,21313,649-10.5%
Cattle31,3552.3%621668-7.0%
Horse18,6741.4%932826+12.8%
Pig2,6270.2%5062-19.4%
Chicken1,0830.1%3427+25.9%
Sheep1,0720.1%1212n/a
Goat8410.1%2931-6.5%
Turkey5240%95n/a
Rabbit5150%208n/a
Ferret3750%1516n/a
Fish2080%21n/a
Rat1520%113n/a
Donkey1440%75n/a
Mouse1260%35n/a
Guinea Pig1230%43n/a
All reports1,378,761100%74,89578,523-4.6%

In earlier editions

Every monthly edition.

How the figures were made

The order is the number of reports. The files do not give the number of animals of each species, so a count is not a rate. FDA says that commonly used products may have more reports because more animals get them.

The other reports are about people who were exposed to a drug, about a species with fewer reports, or give no species. FDA says that a report can take 3 to 6 months to reach the public data. The newest months can get more reports in a later update.

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Pet Drug Reports. Reports by species, 1987 to June 2026. https://petdrugreports.com/findings/reports-by-species/ Source: FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine, openFDA Animal and Veterinary adverse event reports, export of . Reports received through .

Where the data come from

The counts come from the openFDA Animal and Veterinary adverse event files, export of 30 Oct 2026. The files have the reports that the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine received through 26 Jun 2026. The files mask brand and manufacturer names. The site counts a drug by the active ingredients that each record gives, and gives no count to a brand, an application or a company. Ingredient names and the lists of approved products follow the FDA Green Book of 2 Nov 2026.

The site does not publish report text, lot numbers or details of a reporter. FDA's record is the authority. See how the site counts reports, the data sources and the corrections page.

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