Best Custom Pet Calendar Companies (2026 Buyer's Guide)

Short answer: if you want a calendar that is actually designed around a pet, with your dog or cat's name on the cover and seasonal art built for animals, PetCalendar.com is the pick. If you want a general family photo calendar with the widest template library and the deepest sale pricing, Shutterfly or Mixbook will serve you better. If you need something cheap in your hands today, Walgreens and CVS print 8.5x11 wall calendars for same day store pickup.

Full disclosure before you read another word: we make pet calendars, so we have a dog in this fight. That is exactly why the rest of this page names the cases where a competitor beats us. A guide that pretends otherwise is worth nothing to you.

How we picked

Every company below was checked against the same four questions.

• Does it design for pets, or just accept a pet photo? Almost every photo printer will print your cat. Very few build the page around her.
• What does it really cost? Sticker price on photo sites is close to fiction. The mass-market printers run near-constant promo codes, so the list price and the price you pay can be very different numbers.
• How fast is it, and where does it print? Some of these ship from a plant. Some print in the store down the street.
• What can you see before you pay? A live preview of the finished pages is worth more than any marketing copy.

Prices and promotions on photo sites change constantly. Treat every figure here as a snapshot from August 2026 and confirm at checkout.

PetCalendar.com

We are a small founder-run shop in Oregon, started in 2026, and we make one thing. Every design begins as pet art: seasonal months built around an animal photo instead of a generic frame you drop a photo into. Your pet's name prints on the cover. There are fifteen designs, including memorial and Rainbow Bridge styles, gotcha day, pet mom, minimalist, watercolor, pop art, and retro, across two sizes (8.5x11 and an 11x16.5 XL).

Calendars are $34.99 to $39.99, printed on demand in the USA with 2 to 4 business days production, shipping to the US and Canada. Shipping is free on US orders over $30, two calendars save 10 percent, and three or more save 15 percent. You see a live preview of every single page before you pay, and our Happy Tails guarantee covers a free reprint on defects.

The honest caveat: we are new. We have no review pile, no decade of holiday orders behind us, and if what reassures you is a five figure ratings count, we do not have one yet. We also do not print desk calendars, magnets, or mouse pads. One product, done carefully.

Best for: a pet-first calendar with the pet's name on the cover, or a memorial calendar for a pet who has passed.

Shutterfly

The default for most American families, and for good reason. Shutterfly offers wall calendars in 8x11 and 12x12, plus desk, easel, magnet, mouse pad, and planner formats, with a very large template library and the ability to start your calendar in any month. Most orders are ready in 3 to 5 business days before shipping.

What you will not find is a real pet design line. The template themes lean toward seasons, weddings, and family, so a pet photo goes into a generic frame. Their list prices look high, though Shutterfly runs aggressive promotions almost year round and many customers never pay list.

Best for: a general family photo calendar, or anyone who wants one calendar plus a stack of cards and gifts on the same order.

Mixbook

Mixbook is the design-forward option in this group, and it is the one big printer that genuinely has a Pets category in its calendar themes (including illustrated dog designs). Calendars start at $34.99, come in a 12x12 square, an 11x8.5 landscape, and a 14x11 landscape, and production runs about 1 to 2 business days. Available sizes depend on which theme you start from, which surprises people.

The editor is the best of the mass-market bunch if you like moving things around yourself. If you would rather not, that same freedom becomes homework.

Best for: people who enjoy designing, and who want a square 12x12 with real typographic polish.

Snapfish

Snapfish is the value play. Wall calendars come in 8.5x11, 11.5x14, 12x12, and a 9x12 premium stationery version, and same day pickup is available at 5,400 or more locations. Pricing is not published on the category page and appears in the builder, which is annoying, though Snapfish is generally the cheapest of the big three once a promo is applied.

No pet-specific calendar templates that we could find. The paper and binding sit a notch below Mixbook.

Best for: a low budget, or a calendar you need to pick up in person this week.

Zazzle

Zazzle is a marketplace, so it works differently. There are over 2,000 pet calendar listings from independent designers, in sizes including 8.5x11, 11x14.25, and 5.5x7, spread across price bands from under $5 up past $50. Plenty of those listings do let you drop in your own pet photo.

Because each listing comes from a different creator, quality and design taste vary a lot from one to the next. You are shopping individual sellers rather than a single product line, and you will want to read the specific listing carefully.

Best for: hunting for an unusual or breed-specific design, and for anyone who wants dozens of aesthetic directions to compare.

Vistaprint

Vistaprint comes at calendars from the business-printing side. Five wall sizes are offered, from a mini 8.2x5.8 up to a large middle-bound 22.5x14.5 when open, with spiral binding and a minimum order of one. Pricing only appears after you pick a size and quantity, and delivery time depends on your location and chosen shipping speed.

There are no pet-specific templates in the calendar builder. Where Vistaprint pulls ahead is volume: if you are printing calendars for a rescue fundraiser or a grooming shop's clients, their bulk pricing goes up to 500 units and beyond by quote.

Best for: bulk orders, fundraisers, and anything with a logo on it.

Etsy sellers

Search Etsy for a custom pet calendar and you will get hundreds of listings, many of them thoughtful. Common features include multiple photos per month, wood hangers, custom start months, memorial listings, and calendar grids in a dozen languages. Some sellers hand-place your photos and email a proof.

Two things to understand. First, a number of these shops fulfill through print-on-demand networks, so the physical calendar may be identical to a competing listing at a different price. Second, service is entirely down to the individual seller, and turnaround claims vary wildly. Read recent reviews, not the shop's lifetime rating.

Best for: multi-photo layouts, odd start months, and buyers who want to message a human before ordering.

Printify and Printful (direct)

Both are supplier platforms aimed at merchants who sell calendars, though both will let an individual place an order. Printful lists a 2026 wall calendar at $12.19. Printify quotes calendars from roughly $6.41 to $29.03 depending on the print provider, with bulk discounts up to 46 percent past 20 units.

The price is unbeatable. The experience is not consumer software: you are working in a seller tool, the design templates are blank rather than decorative, and support is built for shop owners.

Best for: the cheapest possible per-unit price when you already have finished artwork.

Walgreens and CVS Photo

The speed option. Walgreens prints 8.5x11 wall calendars for free same day pickup in store, with other calendar styles shipped; CVS does same day pickup on 8x10 wall and 4x8 desk calendars, with 8.5x11 and 9x12 available ship-to-store. Both run heavy promo codes, so the price you pay in December is rarely the price on the page.

Design options are thin, sizes are limited, and pet templates are not really a thing here. That is fine. Nobody buys a drugstore calendar for the art direction.

Best for: a gift you forgot about until this afternoon.

A note on Costco

People still ask. Costco closed its in-store photo centers in February 2021, then shut down costcophotocenter.com in January 2023 and handed the business to Shutterfly, offering members a discount there instead. If a guide still recommends Costco for calendars, it has not been updated in years.

What to check before you order

• The real total. Compare price plus shipping plus any promo code, never sticker price alone. A $34.99 calendar with free shipping can beat a $19.99 one.
• Photo resolution. A phone photo cropped to a full page needs more pixels than you think. Screenshots and social media downloads are the usual culprits behind a blurry January.
• Whether you can preview every page. Some builders only show you the cover before checkout. Ask for the whole thing.
• Start month and year. Confirm the calendar covers the twelve months you actually want, especially if you are ordering mid-year.
• Where it prints and how long production takes. Production time and shipping time are separate numbers, and holiday cutoffs move.
• The hole punch and the hanger. Sounds trivial until your calendar will not hang.
• What happens if it arrives damaged. Find the reprint policy before you need it.

We wrote a longer walkthrough of these tradeoffs in how to choose a custom pet calendar company if you want to go deeper on paper stock, cropping, and gift timing.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best custom pet calendar company?

For a calendar designed specifically around a pet, PetCalendar.com, because the artwork and the cover name are built for animals rather than adapted from a family template. For a general photo calendar with the largest template selection, Shutterfly. For the cheapest fast option, Walgreens or CVS same day pickup.

How much does a custom pet calendar cost in 2026?

Roughly $12 to $40 for a single wall calendar, depending on where you buy. Print-on-demand suppliers like Printful sit near the bottom at about $12, Mixbook starts at $34.99, PetCalendar.com runs $34.99 to $39.99, and Zazzle marketplace listings span everything in between. Mass-market printers discount heavily, so check for a code before you pay list.

Can I put my pet's name on a custom calendar?

Sometimes. PetCalendar.com prints the pet's name on the cover as part of every design. On Shutterfly, Snapfish, Mixbook, and Vistaprint you can usually add a text box yourself, though the result depends on the template. Many Zazzle and Etsy listings allow it too; check the listing's personalization fields.

How long does a custom pet calendar take to arrive?

Production is the first clock and shipping is the second. Mixbook quotes 1 to 2 business days production, PetCalendar.com 2 to 4 business days, and Shutterfly says most orders are ready in 3 to 5 business days, with delivery on top of that. Same day pickup at Walgreens or CVS skips shipping entirely. During the holidays, everyone's timelines stretch, so order early.

Is Shutterfly or a pet-specific shop better for a pet calendar?

It depends on what the calendar is for. Shutterfly is the stronger choice if the calendar mixes pets with kids, holidays, and vacations, or if you want desk and magnet formats on the same order. A pet-specific shop wins when the calendar is a gift for one very specific animal and you want seasonal art that treats the dog as the subject of the page.

Can I make a memorial calendar for a pet who has passed away?

Yes. PetCalendar.com has memorial and Rainbow Bridge designs built for exactly this, and a number of Etsy sellers offer memorial listings as well. On the big photo printers you would be adapting a generic template, which some people find harder than it sounds when the photos are recent.

Where can I buy a custom pet calendar right now?

You can start one at our calendar collection in three sizes, or compare the alternatives above. Whichever you choose, upload the highest resolution photos you have and preview every page before checkout.